skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, exactly. That is what the final sentence was meant to indicate,

"We’re moving past the days where we take an operating system off the shelf and plug things into it until it can serve our application and into the days of purpose built OSes that push software complexity into the realm of software engineer."

I wasn't trying to indicate that we 'solved' this, but rather that the approach of managing software in the OS layer was putting it in the wrong place.

Configuration management is definitely still a problem. But I think handling it in a compartmentalized area separate from the base OS makes sense.

Thanks for the feedback.
The issue in Israel is most startups choose to sell rather early. The same is true of the EU. I don't have a list but remember companies such as a Skype, Rockstar and others that were EU (are?). Many just get purchased. This may have more to do with capital finding food than just risk aversion alone.
Also, the first airline to do this will get great PR, for very little cost.

I know I would pick an airline that installs this.
As an onlooker that's discouraging. Can you give one-line answers to the points above?
AT&T breaks through 50% IPv6, Saudi Arabia join top 20 IPv6 nations
Probably has to do with GPU licensing. Nvidia wants all GPU makers to pay up, and Apple is a customer of Imagination. Apple probably wants to punish Nv. Yet another example of apple putting its wallet before user experience.
"Programming languages often advertise themselves as being well-suited for writing domain-specific languages (DSLs), [...]. Ruby is probably the most popular such language, but many others—such as Scala, CoffeeScript, and Io..."

I got a bit cynical when the list stopped there. But maybe these languages are indeed as powerful and expressive as the Lisp of the day?
On the other hand... who gives a flygin f' about a startup ecosystem? If to get a strong startup scene I have to live in a society that loves risk (and loves to tell you that taking it is a character quality)... no thanks. I'll happily take degrowth instead.
Everyone in Tech Hates the Idea of Ruining Encryption
Is _Apple_ known for being "I-want-all-your-data"? Historically, they don't seem to have been terribly interested, certainly not as compared to the web-centric companies.
The cost of public transit for me is mostly time: imo bus connections are terrible when you're doing it every day (or twice!). And I ride as often as possible.

It also supposes your city has an efficient and reasonably cost effective public transit network. Which isn't always the case.

Automated electric personal vehicles solve both these issues: it's as timely as you can get (unless dedicated rail is weighed in, but...), and it requires only a city electrical grid.
Sweden Orders the Seizure of the Pirate Bay's Domain Names
Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars
> If you think about it, nearly all things age. Your car. Wine. Cheese. The electronic device you’re reading this on.

Actually, no. Those things don't 'age' like you age.

BTW, trying to answer existentialist questions with biological theories is futile.
> Yeah they're not evil now

Oh come on, I was drinking coffee when I read that :(
How Walmart uses OpenStack to deliver its 'everyday low prices'
A good summary of pop-webdev in 2015
You can walk on a bridge made 22,000 sheets paper
There is a great startup based in New York doing this sort of thing called: Everplans. https://www.everplans.com/

They make it easy for you to get organized, find resources for handling the tougher scenarios of life and death.

*Not affiliated, just have met their team - all around good people.
Pros and Cons of Open Source vs. Fully Hosted for Ecommerce
What happens when the cruft becomes so overbearing that you can no longer deliver features? Not only can you no longer deliver features, but you now have to communicate that the state of the system is unworkable and you need X weeks to fix it. Thats a much more uncomfortable position to be in than say "Hey, to enable us to keep developing this system we need to allocate some time to refactoring. If we don't, there is a danger that the system becomes too internally complex too manage and starts to damage the reliability and flexibility of our product."
So pirating a movie is like stealing a car?
> “Four years is light years in technology,” [the local official] said.

I wonder whether the journalist purposely used this as the article's final sentence to demonstrate that politicians don't "get" science/technology... or maybe relating a length of time to a distance slipped past the writer and editor(s) as well.
In the UK the police can demand encryption keys and, if you fail to supply them, throw you in prison for 10 years. So the punishment for having encrypted content which you do not have the key for could be far worse than actually having illegal content :(
Connecting the Dots Behind the 2016 Presidential Candidates
Bloxels: Build Your Own Video Games with Blocks
The SSA has a death index. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index Banks probably register your SS number (which they are required to have) with the SSA for "notify if dead" (just a guess). Doubtful they give every financial institution the SS numbers of all deaths on a regular basis. Then again they might have direct access to such information since they can't open up an account for a dead person.

Of course it suck if you end up on it while you are still alive

http://consumerist.com/2015/05/04/being-declared-dead-by-the...

>She learned that she was dead when she received a letter from her bank. The bank expressed its corporate condolences, and locked her out of her account. The Social Security Administration also stopped her retirement checks, and her health insurance also stopped.
> It doesn't stack up well compared to FORTRAN or LISP, which were both its contemporaries, neither of which were actually really designed with readability in mind, whereas COBOL was.

I dunno that I'd say that without substantial qualifications. Much as I hate COBOL, and little as I've used either, from what I remember of each I'd probably still prefer COBOL to Fortran for a large business application, if those were the only two choices I had.

I wouldn't want to use COBOL over Fortran for scientific computing, and I prefer Lisp over either for most things.
>Well sure, but when the license is perpetual and royalty-free, what's the difference?

There would be a difference if the license is non-transferable. Then Facebook wouldn't be able to give or sell that data to 3rd parties as part of a bankruptcy sale.

Edit: in the case of RadioShack's user data, I doubt that they got customers' agreement for a transferable license to the data.
I strongly disagree with that view. I don't have children of my own and while I would open the door at 3 am to take friends in (or heck a neighbor) while we get things sorted out taking on children is a major life disrupting experience.

So yes saying no would be selfish, assuming that any of your friends would have their lives completely disrupted just because you have children seems quite a bit more selfish.
Or heaven forbid just hire me to work remotely. Why do I need to pretend I'm some local by coming in 2x a week?

Areas without talent that need devs and are anti-telework deserve to be punished, imo. The 1950's ideal of everyone being in the office is antiquated and a competitive failure.
Note that the later parts of this series havd been published, and in fact the definition of StateL does inforce uniqueness as expected, in a way that makes the proposed solution O(n!).

For details, look at the first code block in the "The Client Side" section, here: http://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/05/18/using-monads-in-c-to-s...
In a situation where companies underpay, and the only way to get a raise is jump shit, how could you not expect a mercenary culture?
No, the interview was fairly vague and thus partly my fault for not getting a better description.

To be fair, the other areas within that office were hardware related (setting up SANs, configuring and cabling them up) so had I stayed I would have learned that.

I described it like this to friends who asked: what I wanted was "The Unix/Linux System Administrators Handbook", what I got was "Chapter 8: Storage" or even just the "Disk Partitioning" subsection of Chapter 8 of that book. ;)
Ask HN: Looking for feedback on new homepage – bandmule.com
Hi. I'm looking for a little feedback on the new landing page for bandmule.com

The homepage used to be a simple login form, but I thought it needed a proper landing page to explain what the product does. Does the new page seem clear enough?

Many thanks!
SpaceX Promotes Mars Tourism with a Few Awesome Posters
Great advice.

Even with a will, in some places the probate process is very expensive and onerous. In many cases, it's a lot easier to use a simple trust mechanism vs. a will. 3 hours of attorney time now can avoid 50 hours + lots of calendar time later.
This was written in the late '70s, not 2009:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/indexChron.html
Yeah, I totally get that.

And there's definitely a part of me that is biased to "free is better than not-free," so for sure, that's a part of my decision-making process. But unless the content companies actively work to make it difficult for me to consume their content, I try very hard to inhibit that "i can get it for free" mentality.. Precisely because I do know how hard it can be for artists.

Anyway, thanks for the apology (and sorry for getting a bit defensive there). Cheers.
are you sure they aren't evil now?
Silicon Valley is easily my favourite comedy and arguably favourite TV show of the last few years.

I live in the North of the UK so I have no idea how accurate it is in terms of culture but it certainly does a fantastic job on the technical accuracy.
I do agree but there are some huge flaws with this that need to be worked out first.

How would you sell one company to another? There isn't much difference between a company being sold because it's being acquired and a company's assets being sold because it's bankrupt and needs to pay creditors.
Diversity is very useful because companies pivot and having a diverse* team allows you to better consider more options.

Note: By diversity I don't mean a team of 30 year old workaholic that graduated from Stanford and then worked at Google/MS for a few years that happen to have different skin colors. I mean a diversity of experience, fresh college student, a 60 year old near retiree, and someone that just spent six months backpacking in South America etc. It might seem like having a bind person on your team will slow you down, but plenty of dumb products get created because everyone has the same exact background and can't see just how tiny the market is.

PS: The world has ~7 billion people and most of them are not like you.
Humbly suggest the "optimizing performance hasn't been a focus, shipping good language semantics has been" message needs to be repeated louder and clearer.

The expectation that has been created is - "Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast" - and that may lead to disappointment.
Graph Engine – Serving Big Graphs in Real-Time
Not that I think it's an adequate citation, but there is an essay from Dijkstra on the front page of HN right now where he says essentially the same thing: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
Maybe i'm a fundamentalist, but for me an internal DSL is more than what you describe. It is, for example, a syntax transformer (à la Racket) which is a new "keyword"-like thing. Valid in the host language, yes, but perhaps doing arbitrarily complex compilation-like steps before the final execution phase. IANAQCSY, though.
Exactly! There is not an engineering talent shortage- if you paid as much as medicine, you'd get plenty.
...for OSX only.

The topic would be fascinating I think: to look at the changes in iconography for persistent storage generally, from the 70s onwards. Someone should curate that, if they haven't already. This, sadly, is not that post.
Unless you are in the complete bonies you can track down to impartial witness very quickly - your neighbors, or if you know them well their neighbors, etc.
I can not agree with this advice. There are still a few area's where its worth it to have a trained professional, and their fee's are well worth it. I have a wife and three kids, I will not trust their future to some random page on the internet. I went to a reputable estate lawyer and I didn't just get some documents I started a relationship. That is what I am counting on. Every year I now have a professional that I go to not only review and update my documents, but to get advice for how laws change and what their inpact is to me.

Be responsible, don't cut corners.
Firefox 40: Always active network monitoring, CSS rules filtering and much more
Grinding it out
> Although I think this is actually Scheme? Defining a function in Lisp is slightly different if I recall.

Scheme is a Lisp, though it is not Common Lisp.
Big Mouth Strikes Again
Can you better explain the difference please?
CoreOS Aims to Help Secure OpenStack Clouds
Questions:

* Does the user have a choice in this?

* Does anyone have any metrics on all the CPU time that's taken up by potentially useless analytics scripts running on users' machines?
When Meteor is no longer commercially viable and runs out of venture capital brewed hype-juice everyone will jump to the Next Big Thing and companies that listened to their Meteor evangelist will have to furiously find someone to port from Meteor to ANYTHING so they can continue to build features and support new services.

Bless me with your downvotes Meteor zealots! I'll still be here when Meteor is has gone the way of Flash and ColdFusion.
#727272 on a background of #FFFFFF is a contrast ratio of 4.81:1 and fail WCAG AAA which requires a ratio of 7:1 for normal text.

That being said, it passes WCAG AA which requires 4.5:1 for normal text.
Not sure if you meant "you" or "they" there, but the "you" case is more interesting.

No, "you" generally do not effectively retain the right to license your data collected by a third party out to other entities, because (as far as I know) there are no laws which require that third party to provide you with the data they've collected.

Examples here would be 23andMe vs. Fitbit.

23andMe is in the business of collecting data from you (in essence), then providing it to you and using it for their own purposes.

Fitbit is in the business of collecting data from you, then processing it and performing a number of black box calculations, then providing you summarized results. (Caveat: yes, I am aware that most activity trackers have API / export functionality. However, in all the instances I looked at that's limited and generally crap compared to the raw take the main party has access to)
The question comes down to is the private equity group a successor organization.

If Best Buy had swooped in and bought Radio Shack, maintaining it as an ongoing concern I don't think anyone would have objected to them getting the data and honoring Radio Shack's original agreement. That is, they are not a third party, they are the successor to the party of the first part, viz Radio Shack.

Also had a private equity group come in and bought Radio Shack and taken them private, few would have objected to the now private Radio Shack under new management, maintaining the data and the agreements they held.

But by dragging Radio Shack through bankruptcy, they begin to lose the appearance of a successor organization, and begin to look more like a third party.
Woot, congrats folks!
Yes, people want a library of every tv show and movie, and they want it for free. I'm not sure that's ever been untrue.
I've had the Microsoft Band for about two months now. For me, it's the perfect combination of pedometer, heart rate monitor, and GPS tracker. It's great for running and removes the need for an uncomfortable chest strap. Although I've found the heart rate monitoring to be inexact to say the least, I'm hopeful that that's something that can be improved via software update.

Very exciting to be able to develop my own applications for it now!
Trust but verify is an oxymoron === Not trust at all
Many innovations seem simple or obvious in hindsight. But if it solves a real problem and the engineers and Airbus and Boeing didn't think of it, then it must tell us something.
One of the key problems that studios are having is overinvestment.

When you're investing hundreds of millions in your movies, and tens in your tv shows, the bar is set very high.

Now, when the distribution of that content required factories and fleets of trucks, it funneled all the money in the world into a small number of operators, because the cost of entry was so high, so very few people could operate in that space. That allowed very high investments, because the worlds disposable income was being split between a small number of people.

Today, the cost of production and distribution has dropped like a stone, and there are more players as a result. However, these companies are still investing like it's the 1970's.

Lets be clear here:
Total number of films released in 1970: 1967
http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=1970&title_ty...

Total number of films released in 2014: 7320
http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=2014&title_ty...

It's not a monopoly any more. Small studios can beat big ones. It's not about finding a different way to charge the customer, it's about restructuring your investment strategy.
What if in a dst jump. It had. Pay namrog84 $100 at 1:30am. Then 2 rolls around and it's 1am again and now I get paid a second time. Win! But if dst was smeared over a day. This would be easily prevented.
WebGL Experiment: Converting Gestures into 3D Shapes
Sure, they are full time local workers, but they also lack the ability to quit and stay in the USA.

As long as they find a new job before they quit, they are fine. Every prospective H1B I've ever met knew this and was completely willing to jump ship if their first US-based job sucked.
Japanese Falconry
It seems the author is discouraging the practice of staying up all night but not throwing it out entirely. In my reading the article suggests that this shouldn't be the rule but leaves space for times when it may be required, or not so bad.

I wonder how the author would respond to having people, say once every few months or so, do an intense overnight hack session. I would guess he'd be fine with it, but suggest keeping a close eye out so that it doesn't become the rule.
Building a Robotic Sales Gong for Envoy
sigh

At least judging by www.meteor.com, they are still insisting their users accept the risks[1] of javascript and sending an empty body tag.

[1] If you think these risks don't exist, you haven't been paying attention. I don't care if you want to run exploit code from an ad or be used as ammunition by the Great Cannon; just don't insist that others must accept that risk if they want to read your page (slower loads or reduced functionality with the javascript is perfectly fine).

edit:

So you all value convenience over safety. really, it's probably because you're so used to spying on people that the idea of losing that ability is a thought you cannot abide. After all, why would the idea of losing javascript be attacked so strongly? This gets downvotes faster than anything else. What a lot of website developers don't seem to understand is that recording hover times, click paths, reading times and the like may be "metrics" or "important business data" to you, to normal people that is "creepy peeping-tom" behavior.

I know, you're thinking that this is off topic, or that it's just a tool. No, you're making a political/sociological decision by forcing people to take the risk of javascirpt - and business recording information about people is risk #1.

The non-technical people I know, after slowly learning about how the tech industry really works, have been doing a lot to reduce their internet use. A few have turned luddite. Others are trying to reduce their dependence on network services. That is the end game of people finding out the real price of using some webapp - you're driving people away from the entire concept.

Of course, I'm wasting my breath - clearly the features of some tool are more important than the reality of the future you're creating.

Either that, or djb is right. ( http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.05.08/slides-djb-20150508-a4.pdf )
It's pretty hilarious this is being 'reported' on a site that won't let you read the article unless you give them your personal information.
That too. :-) Though I thought my suggested approach might be more palatable to anyone initially opposed to remote working.
I thought that was a bit ignorant to throw in there too, but sadly, have gotten used to seeing nonsense like that in "serious" articles.
Has anyone seen DDP used outside of Meteor? https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/ddp/DDP...
Thanks, yep i need to add that. I just put it together from the fork of chrismccord chat example, did'nt put much thought into the rate & limit.
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There is also tons of examples of companies going bankrupt because they did not thought they would be consequences by shipping a half-baked product. It's just that sometimes you need to prioritize shipping and sometimes you really need a good product quality, it depends on a lot of factors and the business you are in.
Dear Engup,
I have read your thread that is unfortunately deleted. I am the author of the Spiegel-Story on A400M
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I would like to get into touch with you.
gerald_traufetter@spiegel.de
Best Gerald
It's way too late for that anyway. AFAIK DerbyJS was better than Meteor all along but no one has heard of it.
As an ethnic person who evaluates a company's demographics before joining, I want to say diversity is unnecessary for being financially successful. Working with people who are different can even be difficult.

But at the end of the day, what is the founder trying to achieve? His or her personal and broader definition of success might include being inclusive.

Anecdote: working in a homogenous environment can suck for minorities. Maybe starting out diverse makes it easy to stay that way?
Existentialist questions can't be solved with existentialism but might well be solved by other realms of knowledge.

You could not answer the question "why does plague decimates us", until you could answer "it does not" and the question left the horizon.
It would take a hell of a lot of nukes to create enough energy to alter Earth's spin in any significant way.

http://www.livescience.com/32120-can-a-nuclear-blast-alter-e...
There's a difference between being willing to stay up all night to finish something and being proud of that kind of thing. I got the impression the author understood the difference.
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ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se have been seized
Bought two devices one of myself, one for a family member. Both had same issues as parent. Support's response was basically "too bad, here's a list of things you can try every morning to maybe fix the problem." Never buying Automatic again, and I wonder when we'll hear about lawsuits if their emergency features fail during a car accident.
We use L2TP/IPSec to VPN into our AWS VPC. Amazon's VPN solutions aren't great, and propping up a VPN endpoint on a micro instance and an elastic IP is fairly easy. Also makes it easier to SSH/RDP/MySQL to instances in your private subnet from trusted developer machines at our office. L2TP/IPSec is built in to modern versions of OS X and Windows (though for Windows you have to tweak hidden settings to work with NAT properly)