skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread may also be interested in this PR, which adds MSVC support to the compiler itself: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25350

Windows + Rust has come a long way. It's still not perfect, but it's getting there!
I don't know about Jux but we have solid only-paid business model! We have very little overhead costs! My brother designs and I code... we live with our parents until this takes off that's our plan. We want it to grow naturally with word of mouth and will never pay for advertisement. All that said our plan is not bullet proof ;)
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I'm a totally blind programmer who uses Windows as my PC operating system and an iPhone for my smart phone. For basic email and internet browsing I'd have her try an iPhone or iPad mini. I've found an iPhone much easier to use then an iPad do to spacial layout being different on a larger screen. I started out with an iPhone though so if she starts with an iPad this may not be an issue. I'd stay away from an iPod touch if possible unless updated hardware comes out. I've found the iPhone 4s to be a bit sluggish but usable with voiceover. Since the iPod touch has 4s hardware I assume you would run into the same issues. If you know someone with an old iPhone or iPod touch though she could always try it and if she gets comfortable upgrade to newer hardware.
His parents were well-educated and part of the upper-class. This was pure luck and afforded him countless opportunities he wouldn't have otherwise. It's hard to overstate how lucky this was.

He had access to very good schooling in his childhood and free time to pursue his interests (computer programming). This was pure luck and critically important in forming who he is today.

He was able to obtain Canadian citizenship through his mother. This was pure luck and was very important when he emigrated to the US.
Yea I don't think WeChat will ever be a global player. Doesn't seem like they'll have much of a mass appeal (or be able to do things like pay your rent) outside of China
There's nothing new in this, and the "1.5 mio hexagons" are only in a square of roughly 1225x1225. I've played browser games with exactly the same premise (but without the whole pay-to-win aspect) back in 2001 and 2002. They might have a meta game that's interesting in the long run, but they universally lack a challenging short-term game to keep you playing and interested while you're waiting for larger plans to come to fruition. Eve gives the player that by having them do short NPC hunting missions, explore the galaxy or engage in PvP, all of which is adrenaline-packed and visually engaging.

A browser game will have a hard time duplicating that. Might be possible with WebGL, but that excludes a lot of players.
While I'm not disagreeing with the intentions of the quote, it's worth pointing out that there's no actual evidence that Einstein ever said that:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp
Really nice of you to create this post. Glad stuff like this exists.
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You are absolutely right!! We are working on it! Thanks!
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The largest crops in the world are wheat, corn, and rice. None of which depend on bees.

This article is interesting:
http://www.ent.uga.edu/bees/OnEinsteinBeesandSurvivaloftheHu...

A recent analysis[ii] of yearly crop data maintained by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from 1961 to 2006 reached some divergent conclusions and shed light on the interacting complexity of the question “How important is animal-vectored pollination?”

The authors of the FAO analysis concluded that the proportion of global food production attributable to animal pollination ranges from 5% in industrialized nations to 8% in the developing world.

So I think we're going to be fine.

Also, it says there's no evidence Einstein actually said the quote.
As someone who switches often between the mac and windows version this kills me. The mac version will continue after closing but the pc version just cuts the music completely.
Secret raised $35M.

$399/month is a tiny drop in that bucket. It is almost certainly not a good use of engineering resources for Secret to build their own in-house Pusher alternative, even if it would only take a single engineer a few days.
Maybe that could offer the basis for an alternative client. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. :)
Notice that even the two agents caught stealing from Ross thought tor as secure

Also notice that most criminals are dumb and send their drug shipments through regular mail or air mail..very stupid..and also notice that those shipments tipped off LE..

Take-way anonymous is only secure at its weakest link..the weakest link here was the physical drug shipments..that will never be secure..ever
Thank you for letting us know! We will make it better soon! :)
Not admitting science is flawed would equate it to a religion. Ironically this would then place such reasoning within the same group of subjects you criticize.

Some further information on flaws of scientific consensus.
https://plus.google.com/+ChrisReeveOnlineScientificDiscourse...
SAP Lumira (http://saplumira.com/) also uses JavaScript/HTML5 with similar approach to Spotify for the desktop application.
Some days I think I would gladly go back to BBSes. The medium was so raw and exciting back then, in a way the modern web has never recreated with all its bells and whistles.
I have added my email to my profile
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The continual concerns worry me too. You can't have a crisis that lasts 20 years. The message they're sending here is "we like talking about bees".
I believe that what we call the non-dreaming state, or being awake, is fundamentally the same as the dream state but stabilized by constant feedback from the world.
Perhaps, but it is not untrue. Which is why it's good for developers to know a bit of design/need-finding/marketing, even if you never want to be a "salesman".

As someone who has seen the process of trying to commercialize bleeding edge academic research up close, I can tell you that knowing about your potential users and their needs can save you from building the best possible solution for the slightly wrong problem.
Good point! It was mainly for consistency... but you are right!
> And this is the sad truth of many famous 'inventors'.

Why do you think that? Is not the person who makes the lightbulb useful is deserving of more praise than the person who merely invents it?

There are a lot of prototypes out there that never make it in the real world. I don't think the hard work that goes into making things useful on a day-to-day basis should be disregarded.
Not great news for all the people that were born before Jesus.
Type has a formal definition for sure, but it is quite different from its more accepted informal definition. There are also those who study types for the sake of types and those who are more interested in type systems for the sake of building programming languages...these are increasingly very different fields.
And here's a trick. It works for me, but not others. Einstein and physics say we live in a space-time continuum. The past and the future are just different points, different places.

What you've done already, where you've been, what you've felt, these constellations in space-time are eternal. There's nothing that can erase them. They happened, and nothing that happens in the future can change that.

Your five year old self lasts forever, but is also gone forever. So is your nine year old self. You are immortal and your are ephemeral. Both, at every moment. In that light, death is nothing different at all. You've been doing it just fine all this time.
There are regions in China that hand pollinate fruit orchards:

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/will-we-still-have-fruit-if-bee...

The article discusses a series of unfortunate choices that led to the situation, but it is apparently economically viable even in competition with bees.
I want to build my first web app, what technologies should I use?
I want to build a web app that would contain user login and database. It'd be basically social network in a sense that users could look each other up depending on matching user interest (I'm being vague here on purpose, please don't be creeped out :) ). The app will depend heavily on displaying map data tied to user (not the user's location).
I am wondering what technologies to use. I've only built webpages so far and made very minimalistic Flask app. I don't know what it takes to go "full-stack".

I am pretty comfortable with Python (Django, Flask) and know how to manage basic VPSes. I know how to use MySQL. I have interest in learning JavaScript in the process of building this app, as well as Facebook and Google APIs (for login and map data).

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

― Søren Kierkegaard

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336809-above-all-do-not-lose...
> I suspect that if we looked at arable land and calories per year by different crops, we'd find that your list can't support the dietary requirements for the 7B people.

If it doesn't impact grasses or beans, it can't impact the world's dietary requirements either. Everything else is a garnish compared to those.
One thing for sure is that after going through all this, he must be pretty zen now. He has talent(s), funding, market, trust, ...
Well, you can (at least, learn). I've been reading and practicing ever since finishing college. It is an enormous time effort, you have to practice (not just read), and it really helps to have people to share discussions and ideas with (physics forums seems like a good place to go, for example). But I certainly think it's possible. The alternative is not trying, which you know won't succeed (though of course, it may be a conscious choice to do other things).
Looks great. What stack is this built on if you don't mind sharing?

PS: You have a typo in your welcome message: "contributers" should be "contributors".
Really clever. 1Password should make a custom keyboard so I don't need to leave apps (and navigate to the 1Password app) to fill out passwords.
Cognitive dissonance is required in order to make it through life, and figuring out where to apply it is very difficult.

I personally became vegetarian not because I changed my mind about the morality of eating meat, but because I started to actually try to be a good person.

It really is not easy, though. Try to go through your day, thinking about all of the impacts of things you do. Your car burning oil, your purchasing decisions enabling megacorporations to take over, your rent propping up a rich person, and so on.

Life just isn't possible if you try to 'do no evil'. So we make up reasons why things are OK, we get lazy, or we just don't think about it beyond the directly terrible acts.

For me, being vegetarian was something that required very little change in my life. You just pick up tofu or other substitutes and go on as usual. Much easier than say, abstaining from capitalism.
Whoa, that link is gold :)
If I get around to organizing such a thing, I suppose I'll throw together a quick single-page site, and share in on HN or something.
i had that same feeling because i was going to buy it yesterday and then this morning saw it went 1.0 :p oh well.
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Fortunately my Diet Dr. Pepper habit has me getting up and walking regularly :-) Now to move the fridge 1 minute away from where I normally sit ...
Fixed it! Thanks!!!
Some of those plants self pollinate like chillis and tomatoes. But I am just a city gardener so I don't know if this is a viable method for mass production.
Seems like luck is the ignorant term for ignorance.
What did I just read? :-) Better with line breaks.
I think a Visual Studio plugin is a very good start, since the IDE already supports C/C++ and I guess these users are a very important target audience for Rust.

There is also a Rust extension for the IntelliJ platform [0]. It supports some basic IDE features, but the last commit was in February. The Rust extension could fit really good to Jetbrains' new C/C++ IDE CLion.

[0] https://github.com/Vektah/idea-rust
Thanks for your love towards the Akepa logo ;)

I will see if I can do some write ups on the design process for the app, which can be interesting (or boring) I think.

But hey, thanks again!
I assume this thing is just a web app rendered in their "browser"? So doesn't it need to do all the things you list? Needs css to layout the DOM, needs to parse and execute javascript.

I'm a recent convert from grooveshark, so I've been using the spotlight web player and I find it a pretty nice web app to be honest. I haven't dealt with any of the actual desktop clients yet, so don't know if anything I said above is true.
Good idea! We will create a comparison chart! Thanks!
Other suggestion: make the menu transition a bit faster.
Cool and all, but I really wish there was a better word than "realtime". I dislike when we hijack a word that already has a meaningful use.
No it isn't true, because there a number of pollinator species and a lack of honeybees opens that niche up a bit wider. It would however affect cost effective farming as honeybees are both pollinators and quite portable/controllable. Sort of easy to use pollinating robots.
For app launching on mac I recommend Keyboard Maestro, I use it at work a lot. Over time you can customize it for her and string events together with audio cues.
Looks great - The ideas on the comments are are really good too.

Do you mind sharing what you used on the back end, and also on the front-end?

P.S. If you cannot share, it is completely fine too.

Thanks!
Same experience here, although it was 15 years ago! (And I made my lead tracker in Excel itself -- didn't move on to Access until the next project.) I still hold on to the first VBA for Excel programming book I got back then, purely for the nostalgia. Fun times!

Isn't it incredible that VBA is still around (and probably unchanged since the late 90's). Bummer that MS has let Access stagnate for the past decade.
GitUp is one of the best git apps I have interacted with. What I like about it the best is that is not just another client, but it offers a different, more efficient and intuitive approach to working with git-based repositories.
Not yet in our 1.0 (which is our MVP), but I can assure you it is in the pipeline :)
There is Racer https://github.com/phildawes/racer which pretty much works with any IDE.
You can be sure it is in early development stage.
Americans have a weird concept of safety.

Most of them won't let their kids out of the house alone because of "stranger danger", but put them in charge of giant crude oil or passenger trains and they are sure to fuck up spectacularly on a regular basis.
Definitely give it a try and let us know what you think :)
Just like the way fishing stories become more embellished over time and retelling, I think the author recalls fondly experiences that he remembered as being dangerous (but in reality may not have been) that left a positive impact on the way he approaches life.

I also think we as a society have become too protective of children. The ones that are protected from everything that could possibly hurt them usually grow up not having the curiosity and gall to put themselves in uncomfortable and potentially dangerous situations.
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Kim Dotcom is "kicking it" about as well as Julian Assange is. It's not like he's hidden somewhere. The authorities know exactly who he is, where he is, how much he owns, and how to get it. They're just sorting out the court procedures to make sure they get all of it.

In any event, Ross was running something somewhat more illicit than Megaupload. His opsec probably should have been commensurately better.
See Monsanto Roundup. The bees are dying because of the poison in our food supply.
The absence of an eternal life gives meaning to every day I'm alive.

I'm not trying to disagree; just trying to clarify how people who don't believe in an afterlife can find meaning in a life that will end with finality at some point.
>I don't understand how what you suggest is distinct from exceptions as we already know them.

In the handling, something you catch vs something you check the return value for (e.g. with an Optional).

So, it's like an (implicit) try/catch block, where the catch just returns an error value.
never thought i'd so those words on here! Thx for sharing your faith
> The only real reason for doing SNI is cost.

We host some sites on Media Temple, and were told by them that they no longer have any dedicated IP addresses to offer, so if we want an SSL cert on a site we must use SNI. So isn't "running out of IPv4" addresses another reason for using it? Or are we/they misinformed about this?
Winamp is just the best piece of software ever written, ever. I still lament the fact that it doesn't run properly on Linux.
He invented the modern research lab, which is kind of a big deal. Regardless of how many or few of the creative breakthroughs were his personally, he pushed a lot of technology forward, he was sort of the ultimate maker and deserves a great deal of credit.
These are all incredibly lucky w.r.t the world at large. However, amongst HN readers and the tech community, there are millions of people who are U.S / Canadian citizens, with educated parents, and who know how to program. What were the 'outrageously lucky' factors that separated Musk from these millions?
Host a massive minecraft server.
Tesla is still on a course to meet with death. They lose a lot of money and there is zero credible plan to arrive at profitability.

I wonder what all the hagiographers will say when Tesla goes belly up in the next recession.
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Use Common Lisp.
I also used to have this kind of existential thoughts from time to time... until I discovered Zen and Meditation. It worked wonders. The latest studies say that meditation can even shape our neural connections at the physical level, and I'm completely sure it does. You don't need to go to psychotherapists so they can unleash CBT on you, you just need to open your mind and reframe your way of thinking.

Give this a go before moving onto other options: when you have some free time to be relaxed and alone, put your headsets on, and try to listen to this yt playlist [0], if possible with some nice zen music in the background [1] (at half volume)...

Easy and cheap.. =)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCOVusLqXmk&list=PLD7C829295...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-DmV4dhek
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On the backend: PHP & nginx On front end: JQuery + Semantic ui (css framework) And everything is hosted on Google Cloud Platform.
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We are taking the reading experience very seriously and thus, dynamic type is definitely in the pipeline.

As for higher contrast theme, one of the theme in Pro version (the Robin) is specifically made for that people who prefer high contrast reading experience.
Hi there, Monodraw developer here.

Regarding pricing: I wish we could price it much lower but the reality is that this tool is extremely niche. We've also put a _huge_ amount of work into it and I hope it shows in the amount of polish (although there are many more things we would like to improve and add but we had to call v1 at some point). If we ever stand a chance to continue making the best software we can, we have to price it in such a way that will allow us to do that. Note that we might still fail and not achieve a sustainable level but if we priced it at, say, $30 or $20 then we would definitely not be able to continue making the apps we want.

Regarding 10.9+ requirement: we do depend on the improvements in AppKit in 10.9 regarding layer-backed views and hence the requirement.

Hope that clarifies both issues.
I agree with the sentiment behind the expression, but I find my fork has trouble keeping up with my legs!
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>I believe you can't have that happen universally since then you don't get the benefit of having exceptions bubble at all—you're just de facto operating in an error monad.

I was thinking something like you get an Optional, and you check it.

If you use it without a check (e.g. something like "try" in Rust), and it's an error value, then it "explodes" again and bubbles up.
No, I think you misinterpreted it.

> There will also be versions of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise for industry devices like ATMs, retail point of sale, handheld terminals and industrial robotics

conversational pause

> and Windows 10 IoT Core for small footprint, low cost devices like gateways.
I am a beekeeper. So, I care about bees. So before people start to throw that idea that we are all going to die from lack of pollinators, let's look at the facts. Here's a good start:

"What decline? The number of honeybee hives in the world is at a record high. The number in Europe is higher than it was in the early 1990s when neonics were introduced. Hive mortality in Britain was unusually low in the year before the neonic ban. It’s a myth that honeybees are in dire straits." (Ref: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/article4227789.ece, full article here: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/bees-and-pesticides.asp...)

I am not saying we don't have problems. Varroa mites is a serious problem (originally from Russia, where the spread of mites was controlled by long winter/cold temps, it is now a world wide problem). We have other infections, we have CCD, etc. But all in all, bees are just doing fine. Except that they are being trucked all over the country to pollinate almonds, apples, etc etc.

Consider this. If bees were dying in such record numbers, wouldn't you see significant rise in honey prices?
I had a crawling project where I wanted to get a sense for a few ad-related things on the internet and came upon common crawl and was initially excited since I thought it would have incidentally captured the data I wanted, but I was disappointed to find that they did not do any kind of JS execution, which limited the effectiveness for me pretty drastically.
> The pattern list looks pretty exhaustive to me, but Rust wouldn’t know it. I’m that sure someone who is versed in type theory will send me an email explain how what I want is impossible unless P=NP, or something like that, but all I’m saying is, it’d be a nice feature to have.

I Am Not A Type Theorist, but that looks like it could be very hard for a compiler to deduce in general. You might have to bust out a proof yourself for things like this. In which case you might not feel it is worth it for a "nice to have".
Paid in United miles? Not really an incentive there.
This isn't FRP (incidentally, FRP has something in common with the relational and constraint systems of the past, but doing them functionally rather than via constraint solving or relation processing). And anyways, Elm is hardly the first language to support live editing and time travelling debugging (we've had that since the 90s in small languages), Elm doesn't even do this incrementally (it just replays the program from the beginning on each edit...not scalable).
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Pixie https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie has a branch which intends to follow the design of this pycket VM. This will allows true tail calls in a clojure like language. Really exciting.

https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie/issues/312
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You are a good father!
How is this even newsworthy?
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I see you're familiar with flying United :)