skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a second-hand, heavily distorted description. For instance it's almost impossible to live in there without an ID of some sort. As a siblings post said, non-french speaking neighbourhoods are not a thing. As for being mugged/robbed etc .. yes it's quite possible in Paris and its suburbs, and you have to be careful (like not showing off your expensive gadgets out in the open)
Haxe has a full AST available to its macros.
> 1,600 people signup for our email newsletters, and each of them received a personal message from me. I gave them my email address and phone number, and invited them to chat if they had any questions. I heard from 100's of them, and many shared “the thing” they wanted to create. The problem is many of them simply weren’t feasible with the current technology. I suspect we could have eventually delivered on most of them, but not in the foreseeable future.

I would love to see these emails (anonymized in some way).
Thanks, I just got an invite and joined the slack group.
You can use the noSideEffect pragma for that already.
Haskell has it
Thanks, I am also considering that type of model as well.
That was worth 10 upvotes, good sir. Sadly, I can only provide one.
What this boils down to is incentives. Most of the issues with copyright that bring on legal action come from sites that aggregate data which they did not create, and then market in some way to make advertising revenue off of it. Sites that aggregate and repost news stories, for example, fall under this category because they end up taking advertising revenue from the sites which they draw their content from. Content creators in this area will then aggressively go after these sites because they hurt the bottom line.

On the other hand, your concept sounds like it would draw business to this industry, so the incentives may very well align with the very companies whose data you are scraping. I worked on a concept for a startup where we had similar, but in our research we never had any issues come up because our aims were aligned with the providers of the data that we were scraping.
Skype was trying to register the trademark Skype® in: Communication, Mobile, TV (emphasis mine). Of course that will collide.
I'd be interested in a treatment of the specifics concerning radically restricting the hours you're working to four actual hours. I do about four real hours of work a week here, but I'm still chained to my desk for 35 or so of them. I could push for a more WFH arrangement, but honestly that's not the needle I really want to move here.

A muse is a very specific type of lifestyle business. It works with certain kinds of products and a certain kind of mindset. If what you want to bring to the world doesn't fit that kind of product and that mindset, then a muse isn't really going to be all that much different than any other business you build that's not a good fit for you. Because you'll end up having to learn all kinds of things you don't really want to learn and work the way you don't really want to work. Of course in the end you'll be able to take yourself out of the equation, but what if you don't want to? It's not really workable for someone not interested in going through life the way Tim has.

Certainly some of the ideas Tim brought to the table re: Internet businesses are really good, but he has yet to really tie it all together. I actually went to the back of Tim's book and read all four of the books he recommended. They were all really good reads, but mostly orthogonal to what I wanted to do.
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Was the police officer in the original story sued or prosecuted out of interest? Because he should be.

I'd be so angry if one of my family members died because a cop thought he was a more qualified paramedic than a trained paramedic.
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There is a similar project on this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/06...
You might like: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120821-how-many-alien-worl...
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Microsoft should have never backed down on this one.
I've heard lots of good things about Docker, and lots of seemingly valid criticisms of Docker. I love the concept - I'd benefit from having a development environment that's identical to the environment I'm deploying to.

I'd love to hear from people with significant experience deploying apps. What's your take on Heroku's approach to using Docker?
The 4SttE book, as I understand, is printed on demand as well (at least it looks like it), I'm fine (as well as a lot of people) with paying shipping corresponding to my geographical location.
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An enum, short for enumeration, shouldn't hold data, else don't call it an enum. It's no longer an enumeration, it's a data structure.
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For all those interested, David J Peterson actually has a book coming out in September this year on how to go about constructing your own language. Loads of great resources can be found on http://conlang.org, and http://dedalvs.conlang.org/ (DJP's own conlang website) as well!
Until you see Milka chocolate (older than Cadbury’s): http://www.germanfoods.us/milka-chocolate/images/milka-100/m...
> Seriously?? Have you even looked at Perl 6.

Yes I have. Many interesting features. Most of them not good enough to be considered killer, IMO. What are your suggestions?
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The fact that people think dogs have higher intrinsic value than pigs, and hence deserve more rights, is based on completely arbitrary characteristics

Dogs are a bad example. Dogs have been our companions for tens of thousands of years. They have been so because they are useful to us -- we have developed a symbiotic relationship. Dogs understand us and are attuned to our emotions to a much higher degree than any other non-human animal. I wouldn't say it's arbitrary to place a higher intrinsic value on dogs than pigs.

Don't get me wrong, I don't claim that as justification of anything. I'm a vegan. I just don't think something has to be arbitrary to be wrong.
If you are potentially giving them free marketing and possibly driving them more/better sales then it shouldn't be an issue, right? If they think their sales will be cut because of your tool, they will raise flags. if they think its a great resource, they'll share it.

trying to relate, but I worked with a transportation brokerage firm. Many fleet 'operators' did retail and wholesale sales (ie to brokers like my co & other fleet operators). It was an interesting dynamic, but most of the sales team was only worried about sales and quality. For the fleet operators, retail clients were more profitable, but wholesale made up the volume.

One issue could be if you are showing a 'price estimate' where they would not like one shown, but ask your sources what their issues would be. Your user base is the asset and your ally, make sure they are comfortable with what they're getting in return.
From what we can tell so far, life has only arisen once on earth - wouldn't that also be an indication that genesis is rather hard/rare ?

If life could easily form, one would think it would do so many times here on earth.
I tried to do some conlanging in my school days, but I always hit the word invention bottleneck.
So I tried writing scripts to automate that.
Turns out making randomized phonemes sound good was too hard for me (probably still is, haven't tried in a while).
Kinda sad, really.
Saying "encryption makes you a target" represents a lack of understanding for how spy agencies monitor all communications.

It's not like spy agency analysts target only some people and when they are in their offices and see some encrypted traffic from someone they go: "AHA! This guy uses encryption - let's monitor his (encrypted) communications and his metadata!"

It's more like everyone's wide-open communications are monitored in real-time and automatically searched for keywords. Not using encryption makes you more exposed and vulnerable to mass surveillance, not less, because everything is exposed by default without encryption and everything is searched.

It doesn't matter whether you're plotting an attack or "only talking about cats (therefore they can't possibly be interested in what I'm saying!)". It doesn't work like that, because there isn't a human that does the automatic searching, but software.

To make it even simpler: it's like law enforcement saying "hmm, this guy put curtains on his windows - he must have something to hide! Let's watch him more closely to see where he's going when he leaves the house, and such"

vs

you going to law enforcement and giving them a daily report of what you've been doing, as well as full recordings of everything you talked about.

Which is worse?
Unfortunately you don't get monotonic sequence numbers in distributed databases.

Timestamps actually work very well for most applications, at the cost of extra reindexing proportional to how closely you can manage clock skew. Keep in mind that you are always subtracting a reasonable max skew value and getting extra records. All operations on the secondary store must be upserts.
@synchronization defines a memory barrier as I understand.
I'm an EMS professional and am very fortunate to work in an area where the local culture prevents much of this from happening. While it's primarily rural, we do mutual aid in the larger nearby cities ( around 10-90k people in each) and the culture is the same there. The cops respect the opinions of the EMS and Fire professionals in every case I can remember, and at the same time we rely on them for safety and respect their opinion in that regard.

This is still fantastic advice however.
This is a huge setback, both for democracy and for the french tech ecosystem.

While the most preeminent french hosting and cloud providers (OVH, Online, Gandi, Alter Way...) have been quite vocal about the issue, none of the big french telcos (Orange, SFR, Bouygues) have said a single word about it. Shame on them!

900 tech companies, research organisations, and trade associations (so far) have asked the government to reconsider the law proposal (http://ni-pigeons-ni-espions.fr/en/), with not success, obviously. Several organisations I'm part of (including the two companies I have founded) where part of the movement, of course.

There is still some hope that the law will be modified, by the french Senate, or that it will be censored by the french Constitutional Council, or the European Court of Human Rights.

We also plan to start evangelising people on the use of VPNs.
Maybe it's time to change your friends?

- there is a lot of criminality in Paris and suburbs, but I have been robbed only once, in a real shithole. There is a lot of white collar criminality too.

- there are no non-french neighborhood, most people have french citizenship, most immigrants are from a french speaking country, and even inside a high immigration area, since people are coming from different countries, french language still serves as a communication tool. You will find a foreign language inside a family, sometimes the women won't speak french, but certainly not an entire neighborhood (you will definitely hear some foreign languages in the streets). And contrary to popular belief, almost nobody speaks natively arabic, you will find popular arabic courses (because speaking arabic looks cool in somme communities, and for reading the koran), but very few native speakers.

- I'd be very interested in detailed stories of non-white looking people not carrying an ID in France, last time I heard of a brown guy not having an ID it was in the news because the guy was released in appeal: "looking north african does not constitute a reasonable suspicion" (first time ever in France that a racist targeting derails a procedure). It gives you the tonality of the police here. If's you're not white, don't drive a luxury car, you'll get harassed.

Don't go out without an ID if you're not white in France, never. They can and will detain you for 4h without any suspicion of crime. Since it's not a criminal procedure, you'll have no lawyer.

I'm white, I always go out without an ID, because of white privilege, but my mixed race nephew doesn't have that luxury.

(street cred: I lived in a Paris suburb from birth to 18yo, in a shitty area, then I considered my debt to society repaid and I lived everywhere but Paris)
Chumby was an inspiration. As were things like LittleBits.
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I think this is because a lot of computer work isn't just engineering (although there is a large amount of that mindset involved), but it is a mix of engineering and art. One thing to compare it to is woodworking. Many people who are good at it will go into something like cabinet making, but they will still have a lot of personal woodworking tools in their garage. There is something about creating something that, even if the process itself isn't really enjoyable, the final result is.
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I'm an American who isn't very knowledgeable about France. Could you expand on this a little bit? There are definitely neighborhoods in the US where even if many people speak English, it's not the dominant language in the neighborhood. For example, places where more signs and labels on shops and such are in some other language than are in English. Are there no similar neighborhoods in France where another language dominates over French?
This is all claimed to do this for 'performance' but there's no figures in this document as to whether the incrementAndGet / decrementAndGet is any faster than @synchronize.

(I suspect it probably is, but fundamentally, @synchronize is implemented using compare and swap / other processor atomics, so it's probable that the difference is very slight - e.g. there's only a measurable difference if the thread is descheduled while holding a lock).
The article is burying the lead by focusing on "cellphone data". This ruling will apply to all 3rd-party data, which is devastating for privacy, since much of our data (and virtually all metadata) is in the cloud now and the trend is growing.

It's time to start yelling at companies to adopt end-to-end encryption. IM's, email, file storage - everything. Boycott those who don't do it as they will now be complicit with abusive law enforcement (when there's no warrant requirement law enforcement becoming abusive is imminent).
http://www.iliad.fr/en/

Online.NET is a big TelCo as well fyi. They own http://mobile.free.fr/ etc.

But yeah, I've dropped my OVH/Online.net servers in favor of more Hetzner nodes with the exception of their S3 competitors [I just can't find any equivalent price/performance/availability]. That and I front end the S3 competitors anyway via a CDN over https which I think is fine with this legal framework [it just sniffs unencrypted traffic iirc]

If you are making that kind of switch and are looking for bootstrapping automation for bare metal nodes at Hetzner:

https://github.com/asconix/hetzner-bootstrap-coreos

https://github.com/rmoriz/hetzner-bootstrap

https://github.com/leitmedium/hetzner-bootstrap

https://github.com/RedMoonStudios/hetzner
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There is a glaring omission from the possible attacks: the kernel itself provides a huge surface area and local root exploits are not uncommon.

Speaking as an infrastructure/devops/hosting consultant - I've done a couple of Docker deployments lately and clients often ask whether it's suitable for hosting multiple semi-trusted codebases on the same metal for better resource utilization. I tell them "no": once a competent attacker has shell they will not find it hard to escape the sandbox and take over the parent machine, and with it all other hosts. Docker is a great tool for rapid deployment, dependency management and dense hosting of microservices but security was never the primary goal.

Hypervisor based virtualization solutions (e.g. Xen, VMWare) expose a much smaller attack surface to the child environment. I would therefore say that while more resource intensive they are a far safer way to spin up honeypots.
What was described to me was certain areas in the country or suburban immigrant neighbourhoods, which I assumed to be non-French speaking.

But after some reading, it seems you are right, as people in the ghettos still speak French, and not necessarily fresh immigrants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_situation_in_the_French_...
Yeah, I prefer this one. I mean, some of those SF apartments, while of course expensive, are pretty damn sweet. ALL of the houses in crackshackormansion are shitty, and I'm amazed the lot value of these places is still 1+ million.
New GPS technology identifies locations within centimetres
Cadburys tried to trademark the specific colour Pantone 2865c for bars of milk chocolate. They still lost.
This is likely one of the the best responses Ive gotten on a HN comment! They really do have some sweet tech you can potentially license from them! I wish I could upvote more than one. Thanks for the info adestefan
Swift uses the same terminology. Probably meaning of enum will include ADT.
Looking at the Zillow listing it has 5 offices with a dedicated kitchen and bath and 3 apartments and is 8k sq/ft total with lots of updates. It isn't "cheap", but for that amount of rentable space right in the middle of SF that would be a pretty good investment.
I wasn't commenting on the article, but rather replying to another user's post - who wondered why officers don't shoot for the legs when someone with a knife runs at them.
That sucks. I really like that you were pushing boundaries and creating a platform that had the potential to advance mankind - too few people are building things that have that potential.
in that framework, consider that encryption is just a special keyword. And then they see that not a lot of people use it, then they have an opportunity to add just a bit more effort to those cases (maybe just storing the encrypted traffic), because there are so few.
"Note. We currently don't support updating table using DELETE, and UPDATE commands. We also don't support single row inserts.".

Just "COPY TO ..." or "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..." is available it seems.

(source https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw)
I should say here that I have direct knowledge of this because my best friend worked for customs (who was involved in the raid, who is involved in basically all raids within the 150 mile exclusion zone or whatever insane distance it is near the border) and was tasked with retrieving and delivering the phone number of the target to the person that made the call, and was present while the call was made. 1) I am nowhere in the chain of people on either side of that raid, 2) This happened several years ago and my best friend no longer works for customs, 3) This is not even the shocking kind of thing that happens in the course of the US government conducting its business. While outrageous and almost unbelievable, the real shocking stuff is what customs and border patrol (CBP) can do within that 150-mile exclusion zone (or whatever it is these days, 300, 500, who knows). This is why all local and federal law enforcement raids are accompanied by customs people, since they have the power to do whatever they want, literally, without a warrant. So the raid technically becomes LEOs "escorting" customs officials. Srs bns.
I grew up in Flint, MI in the 80s. We didn't just think it was the worst place in the country to live – Rand McNally actually rated it as the worst place in the country to live!

But teen angst aside, I got a really good education, and had a lot of fun and opportunities growing up. (I actually lived in the suburbs of Flint and my family was middle class, so that probably helped.) I hated it at the time, but I can see the good and the bad now that I'm removed from it. I don't think I could ever go back, but there were positives despite its problems.
That's a standup move on your part.
Not so much out of date as continuously maintained for nearly 20 years. It's a remarkably useful personal Web site from the era of Geocities ;)
Rust's enum is a natural extension to the common notion of enumerated types to ADTs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_type#Algebraic_data_....
Your life will be all around so much better!
Hey guys, I'm David, one of the founders of Dextro. Happy to answer any questions about how we got this to work technically!

At a high level, here's how we did it:
1) We're using the Twitter Streaming API to find every publicly accessible live-stream.
2) We extract the live stream using a version of PhantomJS that still supports Flash.
3) Each live stream is being sent to Dextro's livestream API endpoint, which streams back chunked JSON of what's happening in the stream in real time. (Check out some low level outputs at http://b.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imageca...)
4) The results are aggregated and sent on a pub/sub socket to each client.

A background task crunches the live data into the "most viewed" and "most streamed" aggregate stats.
This is awesome! The tutorial is a good touch!

You might also want to add direct links to songs for easier sharing for specific pieces, as well as putting the song name in the auto-hiding bottom bar because my memory isn't what it used to be.
Brad Feld provides a great overview in his book 'Venture Deals'. Mark MacLeod's blog is also good: http://www.startupcfo.ca/

Do you have questions about specific topics?
You might want to look at the YC-backed company Semantics3, which has indexed 60 million unique products and over 4 billion URLs... all their data is available as APIs with pricing proportional to the number of API calls: https://www.semantics3.com/
I've been studying Arabic (MSA) full time for over a year now and this article is on point. The difficulty is not insurmountable though, it just takes time and the right teachers. It is not something I would recommend trying to learn by yourself.

As for the dialects problem, yes it's true that MSA is not used for everyday communication. However, you need to think about what your goals are. MSA is the best thing to learn for most non-arabs. The reason is that you'll be able to go to any Arab country and find people in a major city who understand MSA. More or less, unless someone doesn't watch the news, they know MSA. Pretty much all news is in MSA. Even cab drivers will know plenty of MSA, for the most part. Most of the time, people are surprised and happy to see you've bothered to learn their language. It is an excellent confidence booster when a native tells you that you speak their language well. If you ever decide you have a compelling reason to learn a dialect, pursue it at that point. You can always learn a little bit of vocabulary to bolster your skills if you're planning a trip to a certain country.
Thank you!

>The innocent 'I wanted to build a tool to reduce headaches to help the community' is best defense here.

Seems like the best defense as well as the truth. I hope they would see it that way.

>Trying to get approval from a large enough 'chunk' of the data providers without some numbers behind you is a waste of precious time.

That's part of my dilema. It would be hard to get some sort of approval otherwise.
It's actually more than you'd think -- @synchronized has to deal with re-entrant locks, try/catches that also release locks accordingly while bubbling exceptions, etc. There's a lot more to it than compare and swap.
Well, you simplify the given expression by dragging one sub expression on the other, until the remaining expression is not simplifiable anymore.

Also, while the website gives you a hint, you don't need to follow it and can do something else instead.

Could you expand on your frustration? It would be helpful for me.