skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's clear what I mean by dilution. When everyone has a similar viewpoint and cultural practices, it is much easier to maintain this when there are not large number of immigrants.

It's true that there are critics of Netanyahu. However his views are not extreme in Israeli politics, and he is not considered a pariah internationally. On the contrary, the news source "972 magazine" would be considered a political pariah in the US for its support of the BDS movement.
Borland had its moments, Delphi(RAD successor to Turbo Pascal) was a total hit with Delphi 7 being the pinacle, unfortunatelly after that all went down the hill. Later on in 2008 Embarcadero Technologies picked up Delphi and has been selling it ever since.

If anyone is interested, Delphi today is on life support and exists only because it still has a strong base of followers from the Borland time.
The rapid cost of development has pushed Delphi out of reach for younger generations who are not used to paying for development tools.
Is this study controled for age? Testosterone decreases with age, and the very definition of Long Term Relationship assumes that men in LTR are older than singles :)
Um, no. If you reduced the usage of water by people to zero, the agribusinesses still wouldn't have enough water.

And, let's start calling them what they are ... agribusinesses. "Farmers" are long gone from California's Central Valley.
But "permission" from other people is required, even on Bitcoin. Try spending more from an UXTO than the UXTO is actually worth and see how fast your suggested transaction is rejected by the rest of the nodes and miners in the Bitcoin network...
No it doesn't. Subsidies, social programs and massive regulations hold up our market for food.
> he has never provided any evidence to support that anyone did it or suggested it.

Which part of the patch[0] that removed the BSD license and made the file GPLv2 isn't evidence?

You'll note that the patch removed the lines that say "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies."

In other words they removed the notice that specifically says you're not allowed to remove the notice.

[0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118831729905625&w=2
This is an interesting angle to further understand the Stanford Prison Experiment.

IwasA Guard in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. AMA!

Quote-

"I felt that Zimbardo had a conclusion and he constructed "an experiment" to demonstrate it. That was my belief at the time and now."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2y5sbt/iwasa_guard_in_...
Somewhat confused by [1]... Haven't tried it but I'll put it on the list to check out. [2] is more of a novel than a game, right?

[3] is already there. Fantastic game!
The problem is IDES always end up shit. Even revered ones end up shitting the bed.
Light weight development practises - a-la-vim will always win out in the long run.
That's a really nice solution, I like that!
You should try to think about the software industry and how code gets written and then used.

The quantity of low quality code that gets deleted is just enormous.

The world runs on money. If your code doesn't get sold, it's being sold in other ways, which are not accounted, but the results are the same.

I'm not against open source, but I'm just saying that software patents are ruining the software industry, and open source doesn't solve that problem. It fights it, but it doesn't solve it.
good for you!!
The point is that water falls from the sky, in varying amounts, every year, and California has a huge amount of infrastructure to collect and use it, and a bunch of people who manage it. If agriculture and ranching stopped in California there would be nothing to do with 2/3s of that water (i.e. about twice annual domestic/commercial use), even in drought years, once the reservoirs and aquifers filled up again. It would end up in the ocean. If the western mega-drought that some people are talking about happens, then things would be different.
Pets.com collected $300 million before imploding.
> Rust is for people who […] program in Haskell for fun. Go is for people who have a job to do.

Typical condescending PL bullshit. So many programmers like to say that their PL of choice is meant for work and the rest are cute toys. Such widespread ignorance and stupidity saddens me.
YC doesn't even have a <!doctype> declaration. It's obvious to me that the authors know the browser is going to run in quirks mode and don't care.

It obviously works.
Any sources that say Google had a high turnover rate? Only things I can find is that most employees have a short tenure, which seems to be due to lots of hiring.
You could and I bet you would, because you seem like that kind of person, but I wouldn't do that to you so I wish you wouldn't do it to me. That's the jealous control part. Please stop trying to shove your license down my throat with a plunger.
Most of California is not and has never been a desert.
Ok, then there is no issue. Best of luck
Surely that was bad behavior on their part. The question is how to prevent this type of behavior in the future? I think the OP achieved more to this end by making bad behavior public than by mitigating his personal damage. Maybe it is false dichotomy but maybe not (the reason for these contracts is organizing entity trying to cover its ass).
Rock the Stock Review Binary Need to Know the TRUTH
Spaceship: Ruby Library for Exposing Apple Developer Center API
> This is wrong. Copyleft licenses are concerned with freedom, not price.

Precisely. The thought that someone might take the code I wrote and make it into a proprietary product, removing the freedoms I had, is horrible. But if someone made an free software product based on it and made millions, all the better for them!
Yes, until C#/.NET came out, Delphi was much nicer to work with than either VB or Java. Delphi was originally conceived as a 'VB killer' and thats exactly what it was.

http://everything2.com/title/The+History+of+Borland+Delphi
I just started on my first Go project last night...and yeah, that feels about right.
Oh, I get that. But I have a different perspective on the bigger picture. Agriculture uses 80% of the water, but produces food. Lawns are a smaller problem, but are truly a complete waste, with no productive value given in return.

If we removed the smaller problem of lawns, and gave that water to the farmers, their water restrictions would not be as bad, which will have a direct result on their production, which has a direct result on food prices, which has a direct result on everybody, in particular lower incomes families.

So I really do stand by my statement that as long as people are watering their green lawns, we're not pursuing the optimal solution.

I should make myself clear, though - farmers don't get a free pass to use all the water they want. They should be pursuing more efficient irrigation methods, and plating foods that require less water. Then the cuts won't have as strong of an impact.
Turbo Pascal was the first software I remember buying in a retail box. Before then it was all copied and school-given software, but something in 15 year old me really felt it was worth buying this tool.

It was. That purchase spawned a career out of my evening hobby. Then, a few years later, when I was mostly using C or VB, and only firing up Pascal for fun now and then, Delphi came out. I was super excited. Until I realized I could barely use it, and none of my local book stores had anything on it that was helpful to read.

By the time the internet came along, and I got into full time development.. .net was out, with "academic" pricing for VS 2003. That purchase brought me real jobs, at real companies.

So, for me.. Borland got me curious, got me hooked, then I switched to tools that got me money. Maybe that's because the ecosystem had changed, but I can't be the only one.
I remember a few books coming out lately, Coding in Delphi from Nick Hodges comes to mind if you want to look at the latest for what Delphi has to offer.
related: http://www.vcljs.com/ I wondered myself if a Delphi approach is existing for web pages anywhere... and found it. hehe
Why can't you use the debit card online? I had a debit card at 14 that I could use online (UK)
Don't forget the AGPL.
>And the simple ability to concatenate strings without first reserving space for the result

Not exactly the same thing, but routine string manipulation in C gets considerably easier once you discover a highly underrated function called asprintf (basically combines sprintf and malloc, calculating the buffer size for you).
If it's automated take-downs you're concerned about, that makes total sense. But if it's just regular copyright you're worried about regarding the screenshot stuff, it might be worth checking with a lawyer -- seems pretty squarely in the realm of free use.
Maybe you guys should have tried harder, Eclipse sucks but is free, provide value and people will buy.
For .ZA, I've only really seen native IPv6 at jupiter.is and on the TEnet (NREN) network. My university campus doesn't even have native IPv6 available for servers I maintain.

From what I've seen running an HE tunnel through London, Youtube and Facebook make up the bulk of IPv6 traffic (as expected). At least those networks are the only thing routinely dedicating 10%+ of the total inbound traffic to IPv6 according to my home network flow analysis (I think it's about 18% IPv6 usage on a monthly basis).
Thank you for the kind words and the bug report.

I tracked down the feed in the database, and it seems like Nimbus (the back-end for Litenin) read the published date correctly. The item was published ahead of time (it's 21:29 UTC time right now): http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip

Any suggestions on how to handle this in a more graceful way?
For that to work, the contract would have to be agreed upon prior to participant's registration and travel to the event.
My lawyer friend echoes the same concern. A contract is two-way.
Motorcycle exhaust mufflers are commonly made of carbon fibre but it really depends on what you're putting this on and how far down stream from the exhaust it is. I've seen a lot of heat barriers made from carbon on cars and motorcycles. Also hoods are often replaced for carbon in racing and a lot of people have exhaust manifolds directly below them. What usually happens is the carbon gets discolored from the heat but not much worse unless it's directly touching, but that's another can of worms.
Borland gets a lot of mentions in this book, which is very interesting as well as entertaining:

"In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters" http://www.amazon.com/Search-Stupidity-High-Tech-Marketing-D...

I'd highly recommend it. Technology changes, but people don't.
Interesting points. I guess time will tell. Having used go for awhile now, these points just don't bother me.

Least hackable is a hard thing to define, but as you've defined it I suppose I agree, albeit in this context it often comes across as a feature to me.

Monkey patches are always monkey patches, and in golang your forced to fork a library to modify how it works. To me this is a good thing. It means that as the codebase evolves, the amount of "hacks" (if you will) are more often than not more clearly defined, and to maintain these hacks its easier to collaborate back and make a pull request, rather than just build up a collection of hacks that have to be maintained separately.

The fact that there is a higher barrier to entry to make these kind of changes, is simply not always a bad thing. Choose your poison, I guess. Golang is all about trade offs. In this case the trade off is its harder to simply add arbitrary code all over the place, but in exchange the culture of golang is more simple.
I'm being curt because i am short on time, what's there and uncommented on is decently enough, and most importantly: Over the past year i've seen various projects like this come up, pass by, and remain useless and unused due to a lack of deep understanding of the issues of the market and lack engagement with the userbase. This one's not very different from the ones i've seen before and has not yet shown remotely enough potential to merit anything but the minimum effort to try and kick it in the right direction. Besides, i have little patience for software developers who perceive criticism of their software as personal slights. Does that make me an ass? Maybe. Do i care? No.

Fortunately GeneralTSpoon seems to be able to take criticism just fine.
Looks more like a place to announce product updates than something that talks about interesting technical lessons or challenges.
I keep wondering whether the lack of generics is in part intended to make people not even try and implement Hibernate but to accept using a lower level of abstraction instead.
Many of the pages on w3c.org's own site do not validate completely. The front page validates as XHTML strict, but the other pages linked to from it have errors and are supposed to be HTML5 according to the doctype.
Yeah. Go. The concurrent language with a single, mutable, thread-unsafe dictionary implementation.
The GPL is a user-friendly license, not a developer-friendly license. It restricts your ability to restrict the user from doing what they want with the software.

Recall that the GPL started because RMS was a user of a particular type of printer and the printer driver was bad. He was a user of the software yet he couldn't have it fixed (well, he could if the company that wrote the driver did the fix).
Considering how many ppl that now use mobile phones to surf the world wide web and that mobile phone's usually don't auto-upgrade their browser, and that we still need to polyfill ES5 features, I wonder how many years it will take until ES6 can be safely used without first "compiling" it to the ES5 standard.
At the moment, I'm working mostly remote, and I have a small child at home. Under these circumstances I'd be six feet underground by now if I was anchored to a desk like that. But yeah, if I didn't have the kid, and had the luxury of just calmly sitting down to code in an office without distractions, a second monitor could have its uses.
HSV and HSL are both pretty bad because they're very simple mappings to RGB.
>> If your suburb becomes 50% muslim, it's certainly going to have a big effect even if other parts of the country remain unaffected.

This.
I actually had screenshots up - but an update was rejected (I guess after a human looked at it), and I had to removed them.

Unfortunately I haven't once seen Google go for Fair Use in the multiple instances I've been involved in already. The truth is, once you're big enough to have contacts in Google, then you can start to appeal. But if you're small fish, you're gonna fry. Don't want to take any chances on this one.
Strongly recommending you find some people who're interested in curating and whom you trust to make good decisions. There are many ways to automate and quantify such things, but sometimes the uman factor cannot be avoided. Letting people tag things privately, and then contacting the ones who seem to be doing prolific and/or high quality tagging would seem to be an easy selection process.
There is such a thing as too much abstraction. That's partly why Java has now that huge reputation of being a very enterprisey language.
Cartier's $7.5bn owner says fear of poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night'
Causing the rape statistics to shoot through the roof is a bit of an impact.
The way the polygon morphs as you adjust the sliders, to reflect the reduced gamut in that slice, is really cool!
The whole point of this topic is they don't consider role related experience.
What is your requirement for something to be 'lasting'? I don't expect my code to last forever, but if the code I write manage to be part of something that is state of the art for a while in one particular niche, then that is more than enough for me. The only truly lasting pieces of code are the really basic building blocks, stuff like ntpd. Everything else is ephemeral but evolves over time. Eventually new basic building blocks will appear from that, but the process of getting those are mostly accidental.

As for Africa, it is probably a case of not having gained a critical momentum for the kind of infrastructure the article talks about. This doesn't mean it won't happen - while we don't build CDNs at the place I work, we do build basic infrastructure for access control in wireless and mobile networks, and we are definitely seeing more activity and business from African regions compared to how it was earlier.
To be honest, it does not seem shockingly fast:

My browser console shows a last byte sent, first byte received delta of 18 to 48 ms. It's swift, certainly not shocking.

I don't want to sound cynical, it is a good work and works well all considered.
It's also useful for e.g. using Ctrl-F on your own comments or similar. Searchability optimisation can be valuable on its own.
> Is hiring a Canadian out of the question due to Visa concerns?

You have it easier, same as Mexicans, you can apply to a TN1 visa and is relativately straightforward to get it.
> Why don't people use Erlang/Elixir

Because Erlang is different. It's not just the syntax, even though that throws many people uncomfortable with much that's not a direct descendant of C syntax; it's the whole programming model which requires a real shift in perspective that simply isn't easy.

It's worth it once you start to "get it", but that can take a bit.

I do think Elixir gives the Erlang VM a better shot at the big time, because it lessens the syntax obstacle for many people.
What it has to to with his hair color?
It's that, along with local-loop congestion (and eventually packet loss). Then the retransmits begin.

At least that's my experience with anything cellular-network based.
but here's the absurdity of free software. you got someone spending thousands of hours writing it and releases it. then you got hordes of freeloaders who bitch and moan about missing features and bugs for something they didn't pay for.

So lot of developers try different ways like cyber-begging (donations), licensing, selling support which tends to only work for people who have reached critical mass where for majority of projects and software nobody bats an eye. and in closed free software (bundling malware, ads, annoying features). The latest is crowdfunding but some esoteric video compression library for some specific distro nobody is going to take out their wallet for.

people who never pay for shit are the ones that are the most abusive. it's fucking appalling and my own negative experience of open sourcing and of other developers have made it clear that software or code is never to be released for free unless your motive is to monetize it later.
> I don't care if somebody gets rich off my software while I don't.

This is either incredibly naive or incredibly stupid. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the former. To spend your time like most of us do, getting paid to make someone else wealthy, is one thing. Getting paid nothing to make someone else wealthy is little more than voluntary slavery. Don't want/need the money? Fine, then give it to a worthwhile charity and make the world a better place. But at least make your time and effort count for something.

Edit: Grammar
> C++ is too complex, too unsafe, and too hard to maintain, and Python is too slow. (Remember that "slow" at that scale means "we have to add another acre of servers.")

Which is why Java gets used instead.
This is such an absurd response to your OP. Like a Russian saying Germans are a bit rude then a German replying, "do you know how many lives Stalin sacrificed at Stalingrad?!"

That is to say that while your statement is true it doesn't really negate the original statement.
Why does it need the "Identity" permission? (I'm also curious why it needs the "Wi-Fi connection information" permission, but that one's less worrisome to me.)
I've been on other side of the coin as well. Agents came to me asking about another person. They tell you up front that it's voluntary to speak to them and that anything you say can get back to the person under investigation if that person asks for the investigation records. All in the open.
I have fond memories of Delphi 3 during my high school years.

I did a marketing internship at Borland France around 2004 and Delphi was still the cash cow but a great deal of effort was put toward "enterprise" softwares like StartTeam, Together etc that were from acquired companies IIRC.

It's easy to judge now but back then the shift toward the web apps was slowly happening, C#/.Net was not especially a success ...
Actually, software was free at one point. Given without extra cost with the hardware. The concept of piracy wasn't an issue when the number of computers that could run the software ran in the two or three digits (maybe even four digits worth of computers). Also, without software already existing, those multi-million dollar computers wouldn't be worth the price.

This started changing when computers became plentiful enough to sell to a mass market. Bill Gates certainly saw the profit in selling only software (I'm not saying he was the first to do so, but I do suspect he was among the first to do so).
Yep, that's why they're only 150ms a lot of the time. CloudFront has a few AU pops, no NZ ones though.

The Singapore and Japan zones help, but most still goes to the US.
I spoke with a colleague the other day and he made a reasonable point - the number of people reaching the shore is huge because of the success rate and obligation to feed cloth home educate and look after all these economic migrants.
Hjs vision was a bit drastic for my taste, but the example was clear - no one would risk a people smuggling episode across the water, if the first world navies torpedoed their boats. No one would risk riding in lorries, if the border patrols would destroy the lorries.
Essentially he was saying that if the journies were made so hazardous and risky, then only true refugees would try it, and economic migrants and welfare seekers would remain at base.
A salutory point.
Go is not about research in the sense of inventing new things. The holy designers of Go (Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Russ Cox) have clearly stated that Go only borrows from other languages (C, SmallTalk...). The goal is not to reinvent the wheel in a new, confusing language, but rather to put together parts that have been thoroughly tested. They make sense together and the result is a boring language that is made to be used.
all tech companies do some shady stuff. look how apple sought to bury Adobe because Jobs felt slighted, manufacturers having to install nets to stop factory workers from committing suicide, evading hundreds of billions in paying taxes through Irish tax evasion. Stopping competitors from getting products to market through questionable patents and an army of lawyers. Uber making false calls mess with Lyft's operations. Google approaching Facebook to fix wages, bullying suppliers while suppliers took it for hopes of future business only to find Google built up their own works, and their sitting on Apple's board while secretly developing their own is questionable at best.

I would bet that the skeletons in the closets of these tech companies are far more darker then what we find out about. i guess the short point is, usually the same people who point(ed) at the evils of microsft praise other companies who have done far worse.
Can't tell if trolling... but I'll bite:

Permission required to participate in Bitcoin = none

Permission required to participate in any electronic-fiat-money-transfer-system™ = mucho
pretty much was the fast release track that Delphi had and constant feels as its full price for each release. It got stupid expensive for those paying their own way while all these other options appeared at such better pricing.

The packages were structured that some really nice features were bundled with stuff many likely would never use and the upcharge to each tier wasn't small.