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The Law - Frédéric Bastiat. http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

Capitalism - A Treatise on Economics - George Reisman. http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf

The Works of Lysander Spooner. http://lysanderspooner.org/node/2

The Machinery of Freedom David Friedman. - http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

Democratizing Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

The Sources of Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/sources.htm

Introduction to Information Retrieval - http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/irbook.html

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David MacKay. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html

Introduction to Cybernetics - William Ross Ashby. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf

"Man-Computer Symbiosis" and "The Computer As A Communication Device" - J.C.R. Licklider. http://memex.org/licklider.pdf

Design For A Brain - William Ross Ashby. https://archive.org/details/designforbrainor00ashb

The Writings of Douglas Engelbart. http://www.dougengelbart.org/library/library.html

and if you like maths, don't miss this great list of free maths texts by George Cain: https://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.h...
Nice! You can also join the channel ##hackernews on freenode and see top stories in IRC! (That's how I saw this one!)
Thanks for the heads up.

Although given my Oberon knowledge, I would say that was more a consequence of D's GC implementation quality than anything else, right?

On Oberon and all the derived OS, the Kernel module was the only one where GC wasn't used, as it needed to be implemented somewhere.

All the other modules enjoyed access to an OS wide GC.
I mean your independent is lengthy. I don't care how many dependents you have if we're talking about the breadth of the patent.
There's a very interesting and subtle shift of the perception of what truth and facts are in the last ten-fifteen years. A friend once said to me, years ago, "Google is my memory".

I'm not even remotely qualified to untangle the issues, but fundamentally it seems the problem is that truth is being mediated by the electronic systems "I feel lucky" rather than critically analyzed. It's similar to the old newspaper mediation of truth, but far more widespread.
> What I don't get what does the DOJ have to do with FIFA?

DOJ has a lot to do with bribery by US persons (natural persons and corporations), and criminal conspiracies involving such bribery (even if not all the principals are US persons), and criminal conspiracies making heavy use of US financial institutions.
How do we prepare the students of today to be tomorrow’s digital leaders?
Between Rust and Go (for Pythonistas) I still prefer Rust.

One thing that bothers me in Go is that, like Ruby, when you import something you don't know exactly what's being injected in the context. So it's quite bad to understand from where some things came from. I like more the Python / Rust approach for that.
The traditional reason is to grant incentive for its creation in the first place.

Most certainly, that's the nominal, and even in the USA, constitutional basis of copyright and patents. But the actual implementation over the last 100 years seems to have veered away from creating incentives, and into creating something naively akin to ownership, with state enforcement.

I hope we have more experimentation on regulatory regimes

Based on the CAFC's decision here, and it's history, we're only going to experiment with "more" and "stricter" regimes. We've (the USA) never really experimented with loosening "IP" monopolies, despite data and logic pointing towards shorter monopolies as closer to optimum.

I'd also have to take exception the "pharmacy has benefitted from long-lasting monopolies". That's probably true simplistically (When was the last time Smith Klein Glaxo didn't turn a huge profit?) but in the manner of creating tons of medicines for The Rest of Us, it seems to have failed. India and some African countries actually allow infringing compounds, because the price of authentic compounds is set high. Also, the people of the USA pay way more for medications than most other countries. This whole topic is subject to argument, but certainly pharmacy patents relate to high prices and unavailability.
From a user who's devices just all upgraded a short while ago, it has all the usability problems of the new google maps. Things are more animated/transition-y/slid-y, but hell if I can figure out what to push or where a desired setting is.

It looks great, but it's not great for usability.
America's Peculiar Bail System
Nice one. What about Mozilla?
Because the vast majority of the bribing related to FIFA isn't happening in the US. That's the entire point of bribery, that you are more protected in the areas you are bribing.
This.

The rest of GitHub runs on MySQL. As the rest of the post alludes, adding unnecessary complexity isn't what they are about (in this case.)
> Because C is a very low level language, it imposes very little architectural decisions on higher levels that could cause impedance mismatches.

Remember that it also enforces the idea of types, scopes, blocks, functions, the heap and the data stack quite strictly. It might be a very low level language compared to something like Java, but in terms of being unassuming of architectural intent, I can't say that I agree that it is even in the same ballpark as any of the assembly languages I've used.
What exactly are the national security implications of using Russian engines? That it will combine and burn fuel and oxidizer like a stinking, dirty commie?
If I had to bet, it's probably Apple finally getting around to offering a phone product in the size that people want. For years, if you wanted a large phone your choice was only Android.
Well, no. Everything I listed can be applied in virtually the same way to openstack images or AMIs or whatever... except that the intended use case of those includes regularly updating packages, which docker does not.
In modern CS speak yes, but the creators of Go were apparently referring to infrastructure types of programs; web servers, database servers etc...

Here's a quote from the announcement talk

"And it's a systems language in the sense that we intend it to be used to write things like web servers"
Heh .. I remember the first time I booted Ygdrassil .. it came with a floppy, and a CD. Man that was a great adventure, waiting 20 minutes on my 386-16megs for X to load. My, how far we've come .. good times, eh?
It's an interesting time. Android 5.1 is easily the strongest version of Android that Google have ever produced; in terms of design, functionality and performance the bar has been raised several notches. The big problem that remains is getting it onto devices is a timely manner. This also reared its head on several devices that received 5.0 early, only to have fairly serious bugs that were not rectified for weeks or months until the next update finally rolled out.

Android Wear is the most complete smartwatch OS, backed up by a solid selection of hardware. Chrome OS continues to show strong growth, with Chromebooks and Chromecasts selling very well. Will we see more integration between Chrome and Android? Will Google try to directly interfere with third-party app stores and launchers?
Thanks, I see now.
I was thinking that Poisson distributions look like distributions generated by Poisson disk sampling (with which I was more familiar).
Apple’s ‘Proactive’: Deep iOS 9 Search, Augmented Reality Maps, Siri API
"We need to cash out before investors realize we have little value."
Since this makes absolutely no business sense, you can bet it's being done to cash out investors and shareholders, before the clock runs out on the party.

They can raise all the private funding they need, but they can't cash out that way.
"Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"

No thanks.
> Some combination of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (where a company can be prosecuted in the US for bribing officials abroad) mixed with RICO.

RICO is cited in the indictment, along with wire fraud and money laundering statutes; FCPA is not.
I love reading this thing every year. With that said, is it just me, or are there lots of duplicate pages throughout the embedded report?
> Spiegel also said he believes there is a tech bubble that will eventually burst.

My cynical reading of this is that Snapchat wants to grab as much of retail investors' money before consumer tech valuations implode.
I actually bought Mandrake on CD at Staples back circa 2001 and so began my first frustrations with Linux and device driver availability. Finding a dial-up modem that had an all-hardware chipset was easier said than done back then.
Sounds like something #hackernews should be used for.
What's with the copyright symbol?
I just remembered another thing Facebook lets you do that Meetup doesn't: have a virtual group.

All Meetup groups have to be face-to-face group with the intention of physically meeting, so if you want to organize your online play-by-email board games or whatever, or other groups that don't actually intend to meet very often (e.g. class alumni groups mostly for the purpose of distributing info), you can't have either of those be a Meetup group.

But Facebook doesn't care if you do that.
"Vricon Inc. is a U.S. company providing high-quality services and products to meet our customers’ needs"

Maybe they should work on that description.
One-Time Bonuses and Perks Muscle Out Pay Raises for Workers
I hadn't heard of Fastly before. How do they compare to Cloudflare?
After Brian Krebs exposed this security loophole in March 2015, the IRS apparently did nothing. Why doesn't the IRS site allow users to create a secure account? For example, see the Social Security site at https://secure.ssa.gov/.
I agree. How can google of all companies be bad at grabbing the results I want from my search?
I actually didn't want this to be used as a tool to "auto-stalk" your friends so I didn't add features such as this one (however feel free to fork the code and add it yourself)
I am sure Android helped them collect data to improve their Maps, Google Now, retain people on Google search, Gmail, Drive.. and to some extent even Google+.

Google's biggest strength is their huge data and Android definitely helps them there.
Maybe it's just because Go has Google backing it, but I seem to hear way more about Go than I do about Rust. I have my doubts about whether Rust will have a viable ecosystem in 4-5 years. It's a shame because Rust seems like a more interesting language to me.
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Mandrake 7 was the Linux distro that made me switch away from Windows. I used Windows 98 at the time and did not like XP much. Although there was lot to be desired, it worked much better than Win98, so I made the switch and never looked back since.

As I learned more about Linux I switched later to Slackware which I'm still using to this day (with Ubuntu on second and MacOSX on third computer I'm using daily).
Agree completely, although this does seem to be changing depending upon which verticals a company is in.
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Mary Meeker's stunning 2015 presentation on the state of the web
There are many more people talking to Siri today than used Microsoft software in the 90s. Apple sells more iPhones in a quarter than the annual global sales of computers in 1995.

Mobile is big enough for at least iOS and several flavours of Android. Speaking of which, those $40 Android phones don't come with Google services do they, so is anyone talking to them?
Baltimore, Wilmington, Philly, and Newark – Inside the Forgotten Corridor
Computer Science students often have to turn in a digital and printed copy of their code for lab assignments. Also, some developers just prefer to have a physical copy in front of them when they're figure out why something isn't working.

Unfortunately, many IDEs don't allow you to print out your code. The ones that do tend to put headers and footers on and/or don't allow you to customize the font and font size used. I was trying to print out some code in Eclipse and I had to go change the IDE's overall font size in order to make the code actually readable.

So, it's a very specific use case.
"Does God exist" seems pretty factual to me.
Surely hosting static files on the internet is trivial to accomplish these days, even without the help of Malwareforge.
The Supreme Court can't punish the lower courts but it can overturn them and write opinions that bash them. That is very embarrassing to a judge and they try to avoid it. No judge likes getting overturned.

But that language won't really make a huge difference. Most cases going to court aren't totally frivolous. The frivolous patent trolls avoid court like the plague because they will lose and their patents will be invalidated. Instead they just extort small payments instead of going to court. Some people like NewEgg and Adam Carolla are fighting them, but most just hand over the money.
Have you checked your site on an iPad? It's alternating the font size between small and large several times a second, resulting in a strobe effect that never stops. Yikes!
Don't bother continuing the interview. An employer should be more considerate of the interviewee's time. Imagine you worked for this person?
Well, you've got the first step taken care of, brutal self assessment. Now you need a plan to cope with this character feature. I like techdevmain's suggestion.

Sounds like you are on your way!
The beauty of all the macro trends in the enterprise right now (cloud, big data, BYOD, etc) are that they're not just buzz words. They've been forcing functions for large corporations to move off legacy incumbents who can't keep up and to leverage startup tech across all areas of their business and IT infrastructure.

Check out www.work-bench.com/startups for a list of a bunch of companies selling true enterprise-class deals and doing a great job at it.
Vancouver 2010 is a fantastic example of just that. Yes, there were some developments which could have gone better (Olympic Village, for one), but some much needed infrastructure and stadium upgrades came out of it:

- Sea to Sky Highway went from being a ridiculously dangerous road between Vancouver and Whistler to being a pretty good road (still twisty, but there's only so much that can be done about that), and sorely needed these improvements for many, many years without budget for it.

- Canada Line also received a whole bunch of federal money to get built, probably bringing it ahead of schedule by many years. An airport transit line was badly needed in Vancouver, especially with $40 cab rides to downtown.

- BC Place's renovations got a major budget boost from the Olympics, allowing it to be turned into a great venue. The pressurized roof was a huge annoyance (air locks, yay! /s) and collapsed on several occasions, so the new retractable roof probably wouldn't have happened without the Olympic money.

- Cypress Mountain finally got off their ass and built a proper lodge with proper facilities to support the Olympics.

Vancouver also reused a lot of existing stadiums and infrastructure, opting to upgrade rather than build from scratch. It was honestly an example of a really, really well executed Olympics with a lasting legacy. There have been complainers the entire time, but honestly, it made Vancouver a better city. Closing of Granville for theentirety of the games also allowed the city to experiment with closing off city blocks for events, and that now has become a yearly tradition (along with Robson St). On a more sentimental note, it brought the country together in a unified passion which I had not seen before and have not seen since. It was truly a spectacular experience. I like rewatching the closing comments on CTV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_dndXEGHI) as well as Stephen Brunt's video essay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8tzP3oeDg) every so often to remember that.
But they will realize if they have value or not when they read the S1 filing required to IPO.
I'm also willing to bet we're both Americans.

How nationalistic do you have to be to believe there aren't Russian or Chinese tech forums?

America had an amazing run 1950-2000, comparable or even superior to the miraculous breakthroughs which happened in Germany from 1900-1945, that didn't make Germany above reproach, in fact it confused the moral with the technical, which you are doing right now.

Fascist.
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>> Don't a lot of those benchmarks… <<

No.

>> …how fast they can all call out to PCRE. <<

No. Have you looked at the programs?
If it was able to run off a single server for that long, I suspect the goodwill it engendered (as well as the familiarity with Git/Github.com it built in a lot of people) was well worth the minimal resources and cost it entailed.
There really needs to be a way to filter apps that have "in-app payments".

While some legit apps have them for upgrade, etc., most are Skinner boxes that are only relevant for a very specific demographic.
Unfortunately it looks like the authors never completed the next book on the series about real time programming. How to design worlds. http://world.cs.brown.edu/1/
Reposting what I wrote on the Reddit thread:

I'm one of the lead devs of LXQt and an LXDE sysadmin. We use Sourceforge for our mailing lists and some LXDE legacy stuff.

I'm absolutely sick of them. It's not the first time this has happened. I've been pushing for us to move off SF for a while and this is a good occasion to push for it harder.

I've sent an email [1] detailing plans to move. I am urging everyone who still has projects on Sourceforge to do the same.

If you have similar migration problems to solve as the ones I've highlighted in the email, please contact me directly and we can share the workload. My email is available on my Github profile [2].

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/mailman/message/34148903/
[2] https://github.com/jleclanche
Stadiums and kind of businesses that appear nearby take up valuable space that could be used for higher-value economic activities. There was a rush of US mayors sponsoring stadiums in the 1990s. Almost all of those turned out to be net negative, compared with the opportunity cost.
One reason is discoverability as they have a rather extensive searchable directory of open source software.

Another reason for quite a while was binary hosting, which github originally supported, then discontinued, but finally added again in July 2013. Additionally, the ability to use any open source license or combinations of licenses, as Google Code supported binary downloads during the time github didn't but only permitted one license per project and only from a subset of open source licenses (originally a small subset, later expanded). Google Code, of course, is sunsetting now. And github now supports multiple licenses as well as binary releases.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-c...

It's not wise to trust Russian-built anything, especially with diplomatic relations in their current state. Just like how foreign intelligence services shouldn't trust American-built computers.

What could go wrong? I'm not sure. But why make your attack surface larger than it has to be?
It might also have something to do with the fact that Go has been out for five years and Rust 1.0 happened two weeks ago, or the fact that you are hearing about Go in different contexts from Rust because the two languages, despite HN's insistence to the contrary, aren't really appropriate for the same use cases.
One would hope that being six to ten months behind the development branch wouldn't make very much difference. If it does, I'd argue Go isn't mature enough for general use yet.
It's being downvoted because talking about the Clinton administration's financial backing in this thread is off-topic and a little absurd, and this comment is seen as an extension of the first.
I have had a talk with a friend of mine about this. The current system doesn't allow a Company to be around very long if it doesn't show any growth.

This is kind of sad. I think this is where most company will start making shady decisions to improve growth.
Yeah, Australia also has a very good immigration policy. I seriously consider applying after I finished college in Brazil.

But the hack I described is as a way to possibly end up living in the US. Being an Australian citizen doesn't help much there, while being Canadian does.
> Nope, the US does not have a skills based migration system. It's entirely family based.

This is false. The US has both economic and family-based components of the immigration system, and the former part includes subcomponents for which special skills are a key factor.

> Why should we import parents with no guarantee they will do anything but need expensive Medicare and Social Security in old age?

Social Security eligibility and benefit levels are based on payments made into the system during working years.
Github lets you use any license you want.
False dichotomy. Society can work on solving more than one problem at once.

Also, what happens to software impacts every other realm. Software moves your money, irrigates your crops, drives your car, and runs your pacemaker. It matters.
"evolution of pigments -bible -god -creationism"

Knowing how to properly use Google is useful. The three most useful tools for Google searches are "-", "*", and "site:" in my opinion.
The Glass Ceiling Is Still Real for Women in Tech
Have you seen many commercial code bases? Most of the code is crap. Most value is taken from looking at the mistakes and building V2.
I long for an age where pre-medieval superstition are expunged from popular culture. It's truly embarassing to see a large percentage of humanity still in the grip of ideas promoted by decrepit old men wearing funny hats.

Men who have contributed absolulely nothing to the advancement of society, culture, science, medicine, engineering or any of the real things that improve the human condition.

These people truly need to be laughed at and ridiculed. From the Pope all the way down the hierarchy and similarly for all religions.

Think about what these people do and contribute every day versus what teachers, scientists, doctors, engineers, construction workers and business people contribute. There is zero comparison.

It's 2015. Ridicule them. Don't apease or respect them. And please, oh, please, do not give them the respect of having equal standing to scientific theories on the internet. A search for anything creationist should only deliver solid explanations of how utterly ridiculous it is to even begin to consider any part of the entire contrived framework.

How much longer are we going to tolerate the men with funny hats piss all over centuries of accumulated and massively tested scientific knowledge? 100 years? 200? 500? Why?