skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this comes from classic Java setup of using an application container like weblogic, websphere, JBOSS or web containers like Tomcat.
Alaska paid residents $1,800 in 2014 under its Permanent Fund program (a negative tax).
Sorry. Sarcasm gets missed sometimes on the internet.
> "when people didn't know better"

My god, what do you think 2001 was, the stone age?
Oh, look, there's already an antique jre installed on my os, not compatible with the particular jre needed by this application, which I first need to uninstall. And then hope that it doesn't break anything else in the process, because I haven't been following the minutae of java development environments for the last n+1 years...

I think it falls solidly in the "easy if you know it, and a wasted q hours if you don't" category.
I don't think so.

Consider that I want to discreetly give someone $80K. If I withdraw $80K, the bank must report that. But if I withdraw 10x $8K, I'm arguably structuring to avoid reporting. So let's say that I want to buy $80K of Bitcoins. If I do that in one $80K transfer, the bank must report that. And with 10x $8K, I'm still structuring. And either way, in that year's tax return, I'll need to report capital gains and losses on the $80K of Bitcoins.
Humanity is also suffering, pain, despair, hate, agony, torture.

Human condition is indivisible from suffering. Such is life they say. For millenias humanity has not made a significant number of its individual members happy or fulffilled.

Humanity as something immutable is in its waning years. And I won't mourn for it. The posthumans are coming. Let them come faster.
This is horrible horrible horrible advice that may or may not have been facetious.

The main reason, in my experience, for having health insurance is that you DO NOT receive the same standard of care with it, even in emergencies.

I discovered this when I accidentally cut one of my digits nearly off, and had no health insurance. I did not receive the same standard of emergency care, even though I had the money to pay. I was scheduled for repair surgery over a week after the injury and literally needed to show the money before any procedures to save the digit because it was considered "elective" to do more than just stop the bleeding.

So if you do not have the money to pay, you might be astonished at what procedures are considered "elective" or "non-emergency."

Forget bankruptcy, insurance coverage influences quality of care, and access to care, regardless of what popular conception is.
You should have asked it in the Ask HN section.

For that, you can change your title like this, "Ask HN : <Your Current Title>"
> Bugzilla is not for discussion of product decisions.

That sounds like a very arbitrary distinction, and an argument of convenience. Every line of code that gets into a software is a product decision one way or another...
Scary. It's easy to imagine how we go from here into the first major cyber conflict.
Sergey Brin's statement published as SEC filing
> With some of this languages it would have been much
> faster AND much more reliable.

I don't think that statement is validated out by the body of evidence we have about Go. But, this is all hypothetical, anyway.
Based on the Snowden files, it seems completely plausible that the US has the capability to determine the origin of the hack. Of course, we all know that having a Chinese IP is not proof of origin, but what about network flows? The NSA has sensors all over the world analyzing traffic. They even have a limited history they can query. What if they could determine the endpoint of the data and see that there was nothing connected to that endpoint at the same time, sending the same amount of traffic (using it as a proxy). You might think this would be extremely hard, since there is so much data on the net, but if they had some implants on some routers watching a particular hotspot, they could reasonably make the determination that the attack originated from fingers on a keyboard there.

And let's talk about implants. The NSA has installed malware in China, we can agree on that, right? So if they can see that a known Chinese dumpsite has the stolen data, it's pretty obvious that China was involved somehow. Maybe they have hard drive firmware that constantly scans drives for particular strings and when found, it calls home. Inside the stolen data files were some of those strings.

With all the money spent on the NSA's infrastructure and the stakes involved in agitating a powerful nation, it stands to reason that they have made proper attribution a high priority. These guys aren't just looking at source IPs in a pcap and calling it a day.
OK, so after wading through all the marketing fluffery, it sounds like MS is coming to the table with source control hosting, and calling it Visual Studio (Online)??? (I sort of expected some kind of web based editing, or maybe even remote debugging, based on the name).

And, judging from the comments, its greatest strength is when it emulates git, ignoring their previous 2 source control products?
We are indeed paying - with our upvotes and social media shares. There are few things more valuable to Microsoft than ensuring that they capture the mindshare of the modern developer, since that developer is increasingly able to advocate for whatever software/hardware/cloud they want their business to be run on. And when the cost of that is a few extra hard drives otherwise underutilized in their massive multi-billion-dollar Azure datacenters, it's a no-brainer. There's no need for them to have a hidden motive beyond this.
The reason is Wall street. If Tim Cook invests heavily in R&D, earnings will tank and then activist investors will replace him to boost dividends and buy backs.

Google can get away with this as the CEO has a lot of credibility and also class B voting shares.
I'm looking for something beautiful like Ruby but fast like Go. Do you think Crystal fits this bill?

Also, are there packages/libs/gems for Crystal? What are they called? What do I google for?

One of the major reasons why I dumped Go is that it's just too verbose and makes me write too much boilerplate code. I want to sort a collection and I have to write the same algorithm every single time for every single type. It's just boring and my time could be better spent elsewhere.

I appreciate the feedback HN!
You're looking for Scala. The "good parts".
miniz is already on GitHub: http://richg42.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-great-github-migrati...
It would have been cool to have an API for plugins to hook in their "save this url" logic and UI callbacks. That way Mozilla control the core experience and any plugin can implement it like an interface. They could even ship with Pocket installed by default, just as a plugin implementing the same interfaces everyone else can.

I guess the "list URLs" side of things might be an awkward abstraction, although it'd let you merge multiple services which could be cool too. I use IFTTT to move starred pocket items to Evernote, so that'd be one possible use case if Evernote also implemented it.
Current channels implementation uses fibers, ie everything runs on single thread and only stack is switched. There is no GIL.

If you want true multithreading, simply use pthreads like you would in C. Just make sure to mark gc roots of new thread stacks (gc is thread aware). But this also comes with a lot of headaches as you're now responsible to synchronize everything and manage mutexes by hand.
Where do you think the Turbo in Turbo Pascal comes from?
Wow! Ruby was the first programming language I learnt and I still love it. Crystal is going to add features I've always missed: static typing and compilation. Thank you guys, it will be awesome!
Python is to Nim as Ruby is to Crystal.
> its a safe investment

Anything that returns more money than treasury bills at the same maturity date is de facto not "safe."
Would Pocket be required to secretly turn over my reading list to law enforcement and not let me know? No warrant canaries on their site. I don't know how well a startup could fight the courts in this matter, as even the 'big boys' don't seem able to.
Its good you posted this, otherwise the article might have been completely indecipherable.
He is not talking about a "programming language", he is talking about "programming language tooling". So yes, compile time is an valid and interesting aspect to judge a programming language tooling ever since the beginning.
> I don't care for Haskell for anything remotely related to "work"

Why not? Haskell seems perfect for this task. It has fast, robust and safe concurrency and GHC's IO manager is highly optimized and insanely fast.
I was similarly confused, and still kinda am confused. Many people seem to find it valuable beyond bookmarks, but I don't really get it.

What I have been able to glean is that it re-renders the pages you save to your pocket in a more "readable" way, and it looks more like a newspaper or magazine or Medium blog post. Less clutter, more focus on content, at least that's the goal.

I have my doubts about this being valuable enough to make it a standard feature. I did whatever one has to do to opt-in when it showed up in the Developer version...I thought it was a new Mozilla thing, which I'm always willing to check out. I was disappointed, and surprised, that it was not a Mozilla thing. That wasn't made clear, I don't think, in the description of what I was opting into.

I feel a little misled by it, actually, and I don't think it's something I want to use going forward, but I'm not sure how to opt back out. The UI is confusing, to me.
Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder) writes about the Z80 SoftCard and the early Microsoft history in his book "Idea Man": http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Man-Memoir-Cofounder-Microsoft/dp...
Yeah it was with github that it didn't work.
I did my part: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172218

Even though it will cost me a buttload of time to rebuild all my cookies: fuck Mozilla, when did they turn into SourceForge?
No, but you can display the watch's battery level as a complication.
I opted-in on the basis that I thought it was a Mozilla thing. I'm always willing to try new Mozilla things because I trust Mozilla completely. Or, at least, I did trust Mozilla completely.

I didn't know I ever had to read the fine print with anything from Mozilla, and it turns out I was wrong.

Which, I think is why so many people feel so strongly about it. At least, it's why I feel uncomfortable with this decision. It was not at all clear to me that Pocket was a third party service; I'd never heard of it, and the text describing what I was opting-in to didn't (that I recall) explicitly state who ran the service or that it was not a Mozilla service.

I don't want to go overboard about this; this isn't like SourceForge shipping malware. And, I don't want to make it seem like Mozilla isn't a provider and organization that I trust. But, this chips away at my trust. I feel misled, and I never thought I would feel that way about something Mozilla would do, which maybe makes it worse.
Ask HN: What timezone does ISS use?
Business is same as residential, they just show up at your house first.
Surely no true scotsman....
Do they use UTC up there?
You missed compilation?
Make it more complete crowd sourcing (with voting)
Then only the list will be more useful
>> I love that we're getting new languages lately, but almost all of them seem to be ignore the significant new requirement of our age: parallelism & concurrency.

Yes. I expect this to be the norm in future languages. App developers shouldn't have to worry about these kind's of things, and we can just focus on making apps. Parallelism and concurrency should just work out of the box.
How meta! Is there anything you wish you'd done with My Startup Fail?
Those double negatives man... I can't know what you're trying to say...
StatDNS - DNS and Domain Name Statistics
It seems like creating superhumans just became easier. I wouldn't doubt it if in a few years someone or some country creates superhumans and a society to rule the world. Remember there's only a 1-2% difference in genes that differentiates us from the apes. As NDT puts it, what would a human (he uses aliens as an example) be like with genes that are just slightly altered that puts their intelligence at a level higher than ours as ours is to apes?

AFAICT the majority of humans are no better than any other organism in nature that competes against members of its own species (or other species) for survival. Maybe these superhumans, rather than being evil will finally understand this and help the rest of humanity.
Uber optical engineer
If I set up someone's computer for them they get only programs for which they have licenses and FOSS stuff.

I don't usually get asked to set up computers more than once :)
What if someone went to jail for civil disobedience, i.e. protesting against some injustice they see in our government?

Stripping them of the right to vote, along with all of the other privileges (mostly by convention, rather than by statute) one loses once convicted of a felony, would be a really convenient way for those in power to insure that their critics are powerless.

Several of my friends have faced felony charges for various protest activities (non-violent civil disobedience, mostly). It is not at all theoretical that our state would use the criminal justice system to effectively muzzle critics; a combination of jail time, plus the crippling effect a felony has on your ability to work and earn a living, plus the inability to vote, plus the ability of the justice system to suck you back in much more easily from the moment you've been convicted of a felony, adds up to a very powerful set of tools for silencing dissent.
Nope, still a problem. GINA only applies to health insurance and employment.

http://www.genome.gov/10002077#al-2

"Where GINA Does Not Apply

GINA does not apply to employers with fewer than 15 employees. GINA's protections in employment do not extend to the US military. Nor does it apply to health insurance through the TRICARE military health system, the Indian Health Service, the Veterans Health Administration, or the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Lastly, the law does not cover long term care insurance, life insurance or disability insurance."

While a few states have laws restricting the use of genetic information in the underwriting of these forms of insurance, nothing addresses the use of this information for other forms of discrimination. (Think credit redlining.)

Unfortunately, participating in any form of genetic testing is still a terrible idea for Americans, as it can have real financial consequences. Data are forever. Once this material is "out there," the law only provides recourse in a few specific circumstances (and you have to have the resources to enforce these rights through the legal system.)

The only way to win is not to play.
Though iirc git+ssh was broken... Not sure if it still is.
Because it doesn't belong within the core browser framework. A browser should not tie to your "internet identity", whether it's an account or a cookie fingerprint. That actually is the business of a service to manage.
Kleiner Perkins says Pao is asking for $2.7M not to appeal
He probably meant the results of compilation: superfast binaries ;)
Yeah I use the Linux binary, I'm not sure what you're saying here.
Now someone convince Matz to reimplement Ruby in crystal, add optional typing to CRuby, and you have won big time.
Yes this was agreed on HN a few weeks ago. Maybe you missed the discussion "proposal for all new syntax to be HN markdown compatible"..?

Try adding /s in your head and read again...
Your game design idea is very similar to 0x10c[1] from notch/mojang. Unfortunately it has been Indefinitely postponed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c
Probably UTC. But with a minor note: Time dilation applies.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/lu_l...
How 1970s deodorant is still doing harm
Actually, that's already happening[1]. Also note that there is a library for "ruby contracts[2]" (which I didn't try yet, but I'm very eager to do so) which could give the same result as a statically typed language.

[1] https://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/11/17/matz-at-rubycon...

[2] http://egonschiele.github.io/contracts.ruby/.
Why is this posted to the SEC? Im confused, is there some requirement for that?
Ask HN: How scalable can Apple HomeKit's network be?
1. Because it is WiFi and BLE based, won't range be a perpetual issue?
2. Would a non mesh based strict star-topology with Apple TV sitting at the center really work in larger homes?
3. What is the state of meshing in BLE and WiFi and are these smart-devices leveraging it?
4. Won't there be killer interference? Remember Steve Job's demo fail because of users had 570 wifi stations at the conference?

Basically, what are your thoughts about this since a significant chunk of the IoT industry seems to be going the 6LoWPAN way.
i'd rather eat insects grown in a lab.
People want options and different people want different options. More options means more people will get the options they like best.

In my zuluCrypt project[1],i started with no options because i thought the default options for each supported format was "good enough for everybody" and not long afterwards,the more frequently requested feature was to add more options.

I think more options is good.

[1] http://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/
Relevant Xkcd link: https://xkcd.com/927/
It's most likely meant to illuminate topics for discussion at an upcoming shareholder meeting, or to otherwise inform shareholders in general about the things contained in the filing.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sec-form-def-14a.asp
Leaked Draft Trade Agreement (TISA) Could Threaten Open Source Deployment
There seems to be an idea that some ways of telling your computer what to do are too foppish and that if you are serious about it you use a language from 40 years ago. Of course that's probably what the assembly programmers said about C and there aren't many of those left anymore.
T Wayne – Nasty (Remix by Terence McGovern)
I wonder what words will exist tomorrow!
There are many scalar measures of skill. They are well-correlated with one another.
Opening line: Databases are the beating heart of every business in the world

Well that's not remotely true, is it? Not even close. Is it really a good idea to lead with something so obviously untrue? If you're trying to convince me of something (i.e. that this product is good), putting such a jarring, obvious falsehood right at the start is a bad idea. I'm wondering if they're deliberately spoofing their own seriousness, but I see nothing else in there to support that.
Or at farmers markets! Can't upvote this enough. I go to the indian and asian markets and only buy certain things at costco where the quality is slightly better (fruits) or I get more quantity for the $.
One of the best things I read today :)
Thanks for posting.
Patek deprecates quickly. Rolex maintain its value.
Why is it crazy? I've wanted this feature recently in other languages. Just because someone else wrote FunctionName doesn't mean that I want to write it that way.

Case insenstive search solves the matching problem adequately. You could also do underscore-insensitive searching.

Why is it a problem, or crazy? It's a natural extension of being insensitive to whitespace and formatting. If you like your code to look_like_this, fine. Someone else PrefersThis. It can all interoperate. I think that's great. Leave style to each person's preference.
I'm not an expert, so apologies if my question is stupid.

Why can't the competition have the same test data each week across all participants? So that no matter how many accounts you create, you will train with the same images everyone else gets to train with.
Isn't it unhealthy to drink your food, sugar, and nutrients?
Absolutely consider an HDHP. I did a ton of analysis on how much I paid in premiums versus how much was actually paid out on my insurance plan, and I discovered that in a typical year on my old "gold" plan, I paid out twice as much in premiums as the insurance company paid on my behalf. To put this in real terms, I paid $12k in premiums and I needed $6k in care. My HDHP premium is more like $1.5k, and although the idea is that I pay for everything out of pocket, I've been surprised at the amount of stuff that's been covered as "preventative". And the out-of-pocket maximum is capped on the HDHP to barely more than the amount I paid in premiums on the "gold" plan. I encourage you to run the numbers. It's really eye-opening.
I sometimes wonder if Apple knows more about investing than they let on? They obviously care about money. Why would they let billions sit around in cash? I won't even speculate, but here's a graph of their horde of cash and when we gave it to them. Yes, I said we(the world of course). (Don't want to offend anyone concerning Apple.)

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/22/charting-apples-growing-s...
What's your desired use case? I have same problem, same concerns and I think that Nim look promising (at least for me). I was giving Go a try, but nah - there just wasn't magic between us ;)
What's your stack? We're hiring at eShares. Send me an email: jared at esharesinc dot com
When i hear "the startup bubble of 2001", I always take a moment to imagine what was a startup in 2001. I imagine an HTML 2 page with no Javascript and an ad banner at the top, inlined styles and <blink> tags... Like Altavista or Yahoo.

So in truth, what were webpages before 2006?
It's probably because the shareholders only care about ads and making more money. He's probably trying to reframe the discussion.

I have a bad feeling that Google is going to have a hard time continuing the way they are without some serious deliverables. I think this is why you can't expect C corporations to continue to "be good citizens" and really push the envelope.

Being on the stock market is a lot like being on the stocks. Hostage.
As a proud owner of this game since my grandmother shelled out god knows how much for what was bound to be the hottest video game for christmas 1982, it's not the grind. Seriously, since when did grinding ever doom a video game? It's that it's completely random. The map is randomly generated, and whenever you transition between screens, there's a very real chance that you will immediately fall down a well, and thus lose power, and thus become that much closer to death. On levels higher than the first (which is relatively easy, if not long.) The speed and frequency of the scientist and FBI agent carrying you back to town makes it unplayable. Seriously. It's unplayable. I thought so when I was 5, and I still thought so when I was 35.

Best title screen for the 2600 bar none.
I'm personally suspicious of most charity and aid, so I can see the same questions asked about most aid programmes. Their core claim seems to be that its less distorting than traditional charity aid programmes and I can readily believe that.
There is not really AFAIK. I was wondering if TpTacek had a recommendation.

It's terrible. Disk encryption in the cloud is going to be so easy to break though I suppose its better than nothing? whelp
> So, we are trying to create a language with all the nice aspects of Ruby but with static checks and better performance.

I'm really interested in performance. Do you have some honest and realiable benchmarks comparing Crystal to both MRI and Rubinius?
More like Crystal could become to Ruby what RPython is to python
Analysis of an encrypted HDD [pdf]
This line didn't bug me so much. Would you have been okay with something subtly milder? e.g.
Databases are at the beating heart of every business in the world

or even:
Data is the beating heart of every business in the world.
Why is that a problem / concern / something odd? (I really don't know, no trolling here)
I would like to switch to servo-shell sooner than later. Though there is no Win32/64 build of Servo.

See Servo github issue "Get Servo working on Windows": https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908