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> It’s quite possible that all this will backfire spectacularly as England shifts ever further right in its xenophobia and that the British will vote to leave the EU.

Referendum on EU exit == xenophoby? Seriously?
Back in the early 2000's, we were told (by media) we would run out of IPv4 addresses shortly and needed to move to IPv6. Over a decade later and we're still not there.

Who's actually using IPv6 now and why?
Was it just a texas hold em ? Or a variation of it ? I assume being a hackathon it wasn't a vanilla texas hold em.
Could you provide some more details and maybe the code ? After seeing this I'm interested to know what else you've done.
iTunes isn't crapware on OS X. It is on Windows though, I think mostly because Apple doesn't want to put too many resources into iTunes on Windows.

iTunes on OS X runs better than any other music apps (that are not command line music clients like ncmpcpp) I've used, and I've used a lot. On OS X, I can't see why people would call it bloatware/crapware.
There are many kinds of exit. IPO is only one, and is not the most common.
Just how much money would be required to fix this once and for all, if Australia & New Zealand decided it was a national priority and approached it with an infrastructural rather than profit-oriented basis, with a tolerance for overkill and dark fiber?

I have a suspicion that building 40,000 terabits per second in ~10 undersea links with the rest of the world would be a lot less than 1000x as expensive as building a single undersea link at 40 terabits per second, or one new undersea link every two years of economic pain amidst undersupply. The issue is you couldn't charge end-users 1000x more for it, or even 10x more for it, so it doesn't make any sense for private actors to build: ISPs can't reasonably capture value generated in the economy at large.

From what I'm told, the US built much of its actual fiber-miles count in the late 1990's when projections were that bandwidth usage would grow exponentially for a long time, and we were "running out" (with a high profit margin on each small step forward to add to the supply). Then we figured out how to do wavelength division multiplexing and all of a sudden an existing fiber could carry 100x more information. This led to the existing players going bankrupt, and the "Dark fiber" era, ten years of overshoot before we started digging fiber lines again domestically on a large scale.

This oversupply enabled the Internet in the US to blossom. Last-mile issues were all that existed for the longest time. If we had spent that decade bottlenecked for lack of backbone & backhaul bandwidth, constantly bumping into saturation of the existing links and frenzied construction of new links, the Internet would be a very different place. A more metered place, with a very high degree of rent-seeking by the existing players, and a lot of bandwidth-intensive web ideas killed in their cradles.

Apparently in some other developed countries that joined the Internet scene after this boom & bust, the government made it a priority to provide both backbone and last-mile connectivity on an infrastructural basis without much regard to profit, to even better success than the US.
Lavaboom – Secure email for everyone
Wrong! It's the present!
Non-distributed databases (like postgres) are sometimes considered to be CA. But I think it's clear that CA doesn't make sense in a distributed system.
I would just use std::next_permutation (or equivalent partial permutation from a library). This produces pretty clean code.
Elon Musk email to employee who missed work event to witness birth of own child
Show HN: Movie popularity API
Yup, a bit confused here as well. I just signed up with Onename, but I'm not too sure what to do. How do I link this with Passcard? I've already linked it to Twitter (but I don't have an image of me like others seem to do).
Recovering startup lawyer here....

The terms they are pointing out here are basically the same as you'd find in any equity financing post seed round. Seems strange to flag such common terms as evidence that there's something strange about these high-valuation financings.
How many people on foot and bike are killed and maimed in Portland every year? It's not zero.
> But Microsoft Edge has done more than just re-write the rendering engine...

> Microsoft Edge hosts a new rendering engine, Microsoft EdgeHTML

> The largest change in Microsoft Edge security is that the new browser is a Universal Windows app.

Everything they'd said in their press releases, including this one, says that the browser is a completely rewrite from scratch, though leveraging lessons learned on security.

edit: I stand corrected. Is there evidence that the application (Edge) itself is based on IE or just the rendering engine?
Fair enough. Tomorrow is basically the deadline before 1.0 though, so send it early :)
Perhaps you could explain what you mean by "not elegant"?

I personally find:

<div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>

To be more elegant than:

React.createElement("div", null, "Hello ", this.props.name)

Of course react allows you to use whichever you prefer.
How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major
No good advice from me, just well wishes. Hope you can stay calm, break down your problems, prioritize and drive forward.
Rust's is too.
Cities are hesitant to get rid of car dealerships because they bring in lots of tax revenue.
A proof-of-concept for a multi-platform, secure, distributed, client-side chat application called Toc Messenger: http://lewisl9029.github.io/toc

Built with web technologies such as Ionic, Telehash and remoteStorage.

It's very bare-bones and severely under-optimized right now (have fun downloading 4MB of code lol...), but I have some pretty ambitious features planned for launch such as simultaneous logins, group chat, voice/video chat, file transfers, some kind of email-based user on-boarding process (I'm looking at integrating Persona), and peer discovery using the Bittorrent DHT over the internet as well as automatic discovery for clients on the local network.

And yes, of course it will be open-source. =)
A region calculus[1], such as Tofte described, is not what I see in Rust as it exists today. It could've been so with typestate, if I understood the intent behind typestate correctly.

If what Rust has is understood to be regions, then I need a couple of words for distinguishing the two. Ordinarily, I refer to what Rust/C++ have as "ownership types" and what exists in research as regions/RBMM/RC.

[1]: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Helsen/publication... (the defintion provided here is what I understand "regions" to mean, as contrasted with what exists in C++ and Rust)
I'm not surprised. It's clear they are using newer Windows APIs to offload 2D and 3D rendering among other things. I doubt they'd be able to release a version that didn't run on Windows for those reasons, just like Safari will never run on anything but OS X because it leverages OS X APIs.
Install to your own custom path? /opt ... /local ... /myfolder ... etc. Add the path to your user's $PATH. If you are familiar with linux this isn't really much harder to do. If it is a library that you are then compiling against it does get a bit more difficult, of course, but it is only a good thing to become familiar with these things. If you are ok with "polluting" your path, you can install each new binary + libs to its own custom path. You simply delete the folder in the future when you no longer need it anymore.
I felt like I was dealing with conmen from the start.

You were. Salesmen, especially car salesmen, are bullshitters in the Harry G Frankfurt sense. They are indifferent to the truth. They will say whatever they need to say to get you to buy a car. Know this going in. I don't understand, though, why there is this idea that direct sales would result in a better deal.
Right now I have no clue what a database means by claiming to be AP or CP, if it doesn't refer to the CAP theorem. Right now it seems to mean "We read a blog article about the CAP theorem and don't understand it"
I was well past the classes I took in college by the time I took them (I started programming at 13).

When I took classes, we had projects every couple of weeks or so and even though they sounded boring, I would always make them interesting and go above and beyond what was assigned.

I also don't believe there isn't something you can learn. Even though I am a self-taught programmer, I learned all kinds of new tricks, proper style, and even improved my discipline by forcing myself to work on things I really didn't enjoy.

Coding in the real world is much different. Many times you will be on much tighter deadlines, be forced to cut corners, work on code you really don't enjoy, and not have all of the correct specs for the new feature or project.
The real tragedy of the health care industry is that as a consumer, you have practically zero ability to price procedures and materials and to select a competitive provider based on that price. Instead, you select a provider based on "does my insurance cover them yes/no". At least with car dealerships, you can make them fight to give you a better price than the guy across the street.

The insurance industry has practically eliminated the pressure of competition from the part of the medical industry that they care about, which allows them to effectively fix prices.
This is very true. Currently the best communities can really do is name and shame. Obviously this means there will always be a larger percentage of scammers here than normal. The other big issue with the community driven method is that people can't really take their lumps with a temp ban. Make one bad decision and it will haunt you

As people spend more and more time inside virtual worlds the natural progression is for people to trade in-game items for cash. If someone could make rent just playing WoW and selling items, there in-game time would skyrocket! Unfortunately game companies are pretty against this with the only real exception being Valve.

The biggest argument against cash trading is that it ruins the markets for 'normal' players who don't want to grind gold. Markets in general are hard but throwing in the requirement that they also have to be fun makes the challenge extremely difficult. Competing against bots just ruins the market aspect of the game for most players.

I'm not sure what the solution is but I think a core issue is that most companies don't think of structuring the game around the economy and item entropy. This leads to weird inefficiencies and massive inflation when players and bots alike start grinding gold heavily. The only game that really comes close to fixing this issue is EVE Online. Their market is fairly well built and expensive items can disappear in an instant making runaway inflation not as much of an issue (though still very present).

It's an annoying problem from the traders prospective because fraud runs rampant and there isn't a ton we can do. Sites like mine help raise the bar required to scam large amounts of money but without the game companies support it will always be an ongoing battle.
Beyond the Camera Panopticon
Most CRUD business apps are still written in VB6 etc. Those that want a web based option can use WordPress/Drupal/Joomla. They offer they same features at essentially zero price plus there is more developers for these CMSes. You have a lot of competition.
I don't think Rust was ever intended to be primarily a research language. From what I gathered even from early docs (in Graydon's reign), it was intended to implement ideas previously introduced in research languages in a practical systems language. They even made mention of adopting only safe ideas* (and I'm too lazy to look for those quotes). I think they've had to innovate some but that wasn't the primary intent.
Storing Flask uploaded images and files on Amazon S3
AT&T IoT Starter Kit – Reducing Barriers for IoT Development
Very interested in this subject. Is there a comprehensive guide on how I can pull this off TODAY with e.g. AWS?
The big difference, of course, being that when you get screwed by a prostitute, you leave happy.
In the article posted, participating liquidation preferences (like you mention) seem extremely rare.
Excellent work. I just went through the source code; lean and neat. I am going to offer this as an alternative to React in something I'm building.

To the new-to-JS programmers out here, I'd recommend waiting until a framework reaches a certain level of maturity. React is not just about the core library itself, it is also about the tooling and ecosystem. For example, you can use React dev tools in Chrome. You are more likely to find how-tos and documentation if you're using React. React Native might help with sharing code if native mobile is in your plans.

Like the documentation says, what this framework really gives you is the ability to skip the OO-style coding that React mandates, and use just functions and modules.
Not only that, but if you're an "exempt" employee in the U.S. (as most IT workers are), you don't have to be paid any extra money for being on call 24 hours a day.

However, the woman in the article was a sales executive, not an IT worker. If the company had to be able to reach her in rare emergencies, they could call her on her personal phone if her company phone was turned off.

"If a server goes down in prod, who are they going to call?"

In the good old days, before companies got cheap, they used to hire three shifts of operations staff who worked 8 hours each.
I don't understand how these websites with mystery products make it to the front page? Who is upvoting them? Why?
Car dealers also tend to be the among biggest financial contributors to local politics, too.
This is the best way. New cars, even when you negotiate a great price, are a terrible value when you consider depreciation. I buy used always now, generally at least 5 years old. The majority of the depreciation had been realized, insurance is cheaper, in many states registration is cheaper also. Never been unhappy.
Yeah, he sounds like Steve Jobs 2.0.

I'm sure some people enjoy slaving away to "change the world", but in the end, you will miss some of the most important events in your life and guys like Elon Musk will continue to get richer.
You filed a chargeback against Lenovo and kept the laptop, or returned it? Was the laptop purchased from a dealer or direct?
Safari did run on Windows for years.

But it did seem like they ported a lot of OS X libraries to Windows just to get it working. If I remember correctly, it had OS X font rendering for example.
What I think that the OP meant was that for the purposes of his role, he is an advocate for the types of civil initiatives supported by most of the HN crowd. In some sense every American that has benefited from torture, assassination, coup, neocolonialization, murder, and enslavement by America's administrations and corporations aren't 'good' people.
"A broad variety of memory corruption mitigations have been devised since the mid-1990s, and in the 2000s Microsoft has lead the way with advances including ASLR, DEP, and SeHOP."

No, they didn't lead the way. PaX beat them by at least 5 years, yet they still take credit for this. They didn't even create the Windows version of ASLR in house.

"including industry leading sandboxing"

They're really going to claim that the Edge sandbox is better than Chrome, with no basis?
Sometimes I really wonder if the choice of the language is just a way to filter out 'boring' engineers. It doesn't seem like they particularly needed to use Go, but look at the attention it gets them for being 'cutting edge'.
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Coding in the real world doesn't sound very fun. :( What you said is true and is what I did. I would try to implement cool techniques I found on the internet but ended up getting marked off for not following the course.
That would explain a lot. How do the goals contrast with C++ then? Smaller language?
If you're talking about password syncing, Chrome uses the system's password store. Hopefully the Microsoft Passport the article refers to is just a password manager.

edit: unfortunately, no, it just appears to be another sign-in with company X: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/17/making-w...
Never heard of him. It was 2001.
The lack of PPA has hold the industry back for years. Outdated Apaches, outdated Mysqls, outdated PHPs. In a word, distro mantainers became gateway keepers, and bad ones, since they don't have the unlimited resources required to keep everything to date.

While there definitely are cases when you want somebody to pick the versions for you, nowadays the industry is moving just to fast for keep most people satisfied.

Of course there will be poor PPA's. Poor Github repositories also exists, bad NPM packages exist, bad Maven packages exist, but that does not stop people to search for the right ones and take charge of their own future.
Ask HN: Are you in IT? How would you like to be sold to?
I am a co-founder of a startup that sells directly to IT departments in the audio/video conference room controls space.

There isn't a whole lot of love for us technical sales guys out there. Between email open tracking, sending multiple emails, and calling you, I can understand.

So, I'd like to ask directly. Assuming I am contacting you directly, how would you like to be sold to? How do I remain respectful AND effective?
Unrelated to the discussion on dealerships, but a note on your height - I'm 6'10" with a 39" inseam and three kids. As you can imagine, my options are limited. The wife and I bought a Kia Soul a couple of years ago, and it's been wonderful. It's not astoundingly roomy overall, but I have plenty of head and leg room, and it's comfortable even with three car seats in the back. Good gas mileage, not very expensive, and trivial to maintain.
Well, yes, but some states are really freaking big and it's not like New Mexico or Oklahoma are going to be able to support a Tesla dealership. It's a true enthusiast that will drive a car 1000 miles when it only has a 200 mile range.
This was an absolutely disgusting talk.

I prefer this style:

http://dontbubble.us/
http://donttrack.us/

You know... the kind of talks that don't constantly disparage audience members for being white, or religious... or those who have slightly political views.
A service which is a cross between git and dropbox with client side encryption and deduplication.

The clients are GPL open source with a cli client underway here https://github.com/buppyio/buppy

My server is private but based on a kubernetes cluster. I hope to add a server version people can setup themselves if they don't want to pay for the official server.

Still too wip for alpha, but I want to announce and get alpha testers soon.
"If schools were about learning, would it really matter where in the information comes from? Ignorance gone to sea."

Are there term questions along with essay questions? When I was in HS, the majority of homework had both.

Allowing everyone to just Google the answers has created a situation where people can't critically think for themselves.
>I don't understand, though, why there is this idea that direct sales would result in a better deal.

Middle-men are expensive. Using them, a few people will get better deals and a lot of people will get screwed.
The first one defines the list of all parameters, and the second uses it. In short definitions like this, it seems redundant, but it's more obvious with a more complex example:

impl<'a, K, Q: ?Sized, V, S> Index<&'a Q> for HashMap<K, V, S>
where K: Eq + Hash + Borrow<Q>,
Q: Eq + Hash,
S: HashState

Okay, maybe that's not obvious, I picked a really gross example on purpose. :)

The first part says "we're generic over five things: 'a, K, Q, V, and S. And then each of those five things gets used various times in the rest of the definition.
TL;DR - They started locally first.
> Deku to me only has a few slight differences to React.js

This framework is genuinely different from React in how you use it. I know several JS programmers who prefer functional style, yet choose to incorporate React-style classes because React is really good at what it does. This gives them an alternative.

The components built with Deku will be different in programming style. And that's really, really significant.
Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python
My understanding is the project had at least to the level of state support as SpaceX. So, sure it's a private company, but not really a 100% private project.

PS: Intel is at 14nm and started with 65nm back in 2006. Which is not as bad as you might assume, but still far from bleeding edge.
https://StatusGator.io It monitors the status pages of various cloud services and then alerts you.

http://BrushbackApp.com Baseball news app for iOS and Android.

http://taxstax.com Tax withholding service for contractors.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "boring engineers"?
Not a single mention of "service."

The FTC, TechCrunch, and the mainstream media are ignoring another aspect of the protectionist legislation that is put in front of Tesla customers: not only can't you BUY a car in a number of states, you can't get SERVICE on one either.

For example: New Mexico. The NMADA (New Mexico Automobile Dealers Assocation) has made sure there are laws on the books that make it impossible for Tesla to not only open a store in the state, but also they can't open a service center. Even though on Tesla's own website it shows a map with a "Coming Soon" icon for a service center in Albuquerque, it really isn't coming any time soon because the law forbids Tesla from opening a service center. So owners in New Mexico are kinda screwed. Some of them don't even realize it. If you are a Tesla owner in NM, and you need service some day, you have to call Tesla and have a service person come from either Phoenix, AZ or Denver, CO -- 7+ hours away by interstate. And if your car has to be taken back to one of those service centers, you're looking at significant expense because of the flatbed transportation. Not to mention hassle.

All this to protect a bunch of sleazy old boy network car dealers who don't want Tesla educating the New Mexico public about how bad they have it with dealerships and service centers.

I wish the FTC would talk about the service angle as well.
Is it possible for amateurs/other space agencies with a big enough dish to capture the raw Dawn data themselves as it comes in, or is that stuff encrypted these days?

(I assume outgoing command signals use some sort of authentication scheme, but that seems unnecessary for incoming data.)
The blog post explicitly says that the C++ is a translation of Haskell code, and links to the (efficient) Haskell original.
Tesla only has showrooms. Their stores are pretty much the same everywhere. There are no cars you can buy and drive off in.

In states where Tesla can sell direct to consumers, the showroom has sales people who can talk to you about buying a car, and sit next to you to answer questions as you do so at teslamotors.com.

In other states, the showroom does not have sales people. The staff can answer questions about the car, but not about purchasing (pricing, financing, etc). If you want to buy one, they direct you to visit teslamotors.com.

In no case are people in a state prevented from buying a Tesla car. The buying experience is the same everywhere: go to teslamotors.com, configure and order a car, and either pick it up or have it delivered to you after it's been manufactured.

As for the legal aspect, the federal government does have the ability to regulate interstate commerce, and federal law preempts state law. When there is no federal law, however, the states are free to regulate in that area. If Congress were to enact a law guaranteeing the right of manufacturers to sell direct to consumers, this would preempt the state laws prohibiting it, and Tesla could have sales people in all its showrooms. IANAL.