skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security isn't necessarily better or worse, but different. Remember that Windows (used to?) run code on every attached USB Mass Storage. The bundled web browser executed native code embeded on web pages (but don't worry as it's all signed, right?) and great efforts were made to build enterprise software on top of it. That has nothing to do with unix-ness or lack thereof. It's also nothing you can fix by layering more technology over it.

Both systems have unpatched root exploits if you have access to the display subsystem. Both were initially developed for trusted local environments, then adapted for public network use some ten or fifteen years later and whatever security issues that brought was patched as they were found. I'm just not sure how to argue more or less security in that environment. Users still get owned by running Flash (so no ASLR for you) and Outlook.
ridiculously negative- i think its cool, and im sure whoever made it has learned alot in making it.
I've implemented a Common Lisp that interoperates with C++ and uses LLVM as the backend because I was motivated by the same shortcomings in traditional software development languages and tools (https://github.com/drmeister/clasp). I choose Common Lisp rather than Scheme because the killer feature of Lisp is Macros and they are easier to use in Common Lisp than they are in Scheme. Also, Slime (Emacs interface to Common Lisp) is one of the most powerful software development environments available IMHO.
There is no need for Godwin -- we saw that firsthand in the wars in former Yugoslavia, where many previously normal people turned (seemingly inexplicably) cruel and destructive.
When a web site takes over 10 seconds to load and elements are jumping all over the place as things are rendered, the first thing I'll try is disable Javascript. Next I just say hell with it and not visit the site.

So... fuck you.
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don't throw solutions with confidence like they are silver bullets. spiped is unmaintained, doesn't support revocation, not easy to debug in a big infrastructure, and will require a lot more work compared to https + client cert authentication, and doesn't provide multi platform support.

PKI is used to build a chain of trust. Whether it involves third parties or not is not the point.
Sorry, I assume everyone works from the same definition of "hipsterism" as me, but that's obviously silly. Think of it as encapsulating: "I don't really like this artist. Lots of normal people like them, now. But they like them for the wrong reasons." The "nobody goes there anymore it's too crowded" trope, with an added sprinkling of "and did you know he supported Republicans?" (Yeah, thinking maybe the book about the first McCain campaign might have been a tip-off for you there.)
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Could anyone comment on the Lisp --> Racket mind-blowing experience? I have worked with Lisp and Clojure, and most of the big concepts are shared. What has racket on top of (common, I assume?) lisp?
Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends
UK surveillance Tribunal reveals the government spied on Amnesty International
That's basically my take on it, and we also have a bunch of custom code to do similar things piecemeal, but it doesn't work very well and I envy Meteor's solution, while remaining unprepared to jump onto the framework in its entirety. But lots of "really difficult" things have been accomplished in the past, so I'm still hoping to come across a "general, flexible, tech agnostic solution to this problem" at some point!
Show HN: Twisque, a tweet-later experiment using Disque on Heroku
UO was an amazing game and a huge part of my adolescence. I couldn't even begin to tell the stories and lessons I learned playing the game. Making macros was my gateway drug into programming. As the article says, it is one of very few MMO's where you can truly live an alternate life.

It completely ruined all MMO's for me. I haven't been able to play an MMO since because they all feel like single player games that you're just playing together, not an alternate universe full of risks and rewards. I tried WoW during it's beta and gave up within 2 weeks.
It's nicely written. How do we know if there's any truth to it? Does it draw on research into suicide messages? Does it draw on interviews with people who survived a suicide attempt?

Suicide kills many people and while I welcome some discussion of suicide it's important to be aware of the stuff that tries to be truthy and the stuff that feels good.
Ask HN: How do you know if you're a good dev or not?
Seems like drupal is going full symfony2 bundles, from a distance it seems like a great move for quality.

Hooks are ok, too much hooks and too much global states made if hard for me to understand order of things.
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What is a 'better system' you speak of? Why would the community be better on the private servers?
I'm afraid it really is gone :( Rusting on a shelf somewhere never to see the light of day again.

However I did start an experimental project a while back to do a simple Taos like kernel over BSD/Linux in x86_64, VP macros and process load balancing, point to point link network simulation and function level dynamic binding ?

https://github.com/vygr?tab=repositories

Look for the Asm-Kernel project amongst my other stuff.

Was just starting to work on a GUI, AVE MK 6 :) But then got into a new job and it's currently sat at that stage till I go back to it.

Regards to all, was great to read this and bring back such wonderful memories of the great team we had at Tao, some of the brightest tech people I have ever had the pleasure to learn from.

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YES, THIS. Meridian is still my fave MMO of all time. I import the soundtrack into all my rpg games.
> As someone who has struggled with lifelong depression, I still didn't recognize anything familiar in his description of watching hours of television a day

Since I wrote elsewhere that I feel DFW's writing captures depression well, this might be a good place to clarify:
I don't mean that his characters act the way I might act when I'm depressed, except maybe in caricature. I mean he writes in a way I might think about things when I'm depressed.

To put it another way, I don't agree with much of what he has to say, yet it resonates.
This library is clearly intended to create dynamic and interactive interfaces, too. If you've got JS disabled, whatever you build with it wouldn't work if you built it with literally any other JS framework or library anyways.

There's no more reason for people to get angry over this JS library than there is to get angry over jQuery, Angular, React, or anything else people have been using to build fully functional products on the internet for years.
I spoke online to a child porn collector who claimed to use a similar system to obtain cp. He'd buy used laptops for close to nothing and place them to leech off public WiFi. They had anti-tamper systems, although he wouldn't reveal the details. (He ditched them aggressively at the slightest sign of trouble). The difference was that he connected to the laptop via the same WiFi the laptop leeches off, thus giving less additional protection than the radio hop.
> What has racket on top of (common, I assume?) lisp?

Racket is from the Scheme family rather than the Common Lisp family, (Racket used to be PLT-Scheme before the name was changed because Racket isn't strictly an implementation of the Scheme standard, though it includes such an implementation among its bundled languages.)
I love the bath saltz portrait
Got 1650 by tapping, then 3600 holding the keys. I think it's pretty boss to go beyond 4000 out of the blue, in 3 tries or so, though it depends on the random patterns. I had an easy streak around ~3000, then a confusing series. Consecutive Up/Down are harder than Right/Left, because of finger movement.

It would be nice with asdf, homerow style. Maybe you could even have 2 rings going on at the same time, for each homerow.
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It probably does draw on research. He had a lot of engagement with the mental health system. He suffered from depression. His experience with clinical psychology leaks into a lot of his writing.
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Sorry, I didn't mean for you to prove anything. Just wanted to know what kind of systems or paradigm you knew before working on WP.

It's not my main job, but regularly people are looking for people to work on WP codebase, so I had to come back to it a few times.

It was in 3.7 days IIRC, I remember an article saying v4 would be a departure from the old model but I can't find it again.
oz/mozart does a good job of that; it's a shame it never really caught on as a non-research language.

http://mozart.github.io/
I would add in workers... is there something that should be run on a different system.. the typical example is image resizing. Even if a service will only be used in one place, if it's compute heavy, I'd lean towards putting it behind a work queue, on an independent service.

There's also the question about project complexity.. does the marketing website really need to be part of the application's project?

It's a matter of separating things out where it makes the most sense.
Love what you guys doing there. We are building our data stack very much like yours (spark, kafka, redshift and python) at tradewave.net

It would be a fascinating to see what insights you get from analyzing your data. Hopefully you can publish them at some point.
> But are there good open source alternatives? Besides Vim and Emacs, I mean,

Why dismiss the two most popular alternatives?
90% of the city is zoned for 4 story buildings. Almost every development proposal gets shortened for whatever reason. Areas that lend well to being urban, dense hubs for high rise offices/hotels/residential buildings like Central SOMA are zoned for 4 story buildings. It makes no sense.
That means that you can't simply reverse engineer voice from, say, a sample text read by an voice actor? I mean, down to the tiny bits of audio waveform? I mean, how hard could it be? :)
I did the design of a project that used Angular inside Ionic with Firebase as backend. They integrated well, no particular problem. Just be careful not to keep websockets open unless those you really need. Close the others. They'll keep the CPU busy and bleed the battery.

The only major problem was with Firebase itself, when we had to start duplicating data because it's a tree and it doesn't have joins. But it would be unfair to complain because it's like that by design and we knew what was expecting us. Is there any service like Firebase but with joins?
> "real-time discussion platform"

So... it's chat?
I'm surprised no one mentioned SmartGitHg, much better than GFW and SourceTree.

It is Java-based and runs on Win, Mac, and Linux
http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
I work teaching Wordpress (and other CMSs) and i can assure you that Wordpress is the best option available for less savvy users (no programmers looking for a professional website). To this kind of users your statement (Wordpress is terrible) don´t make any sense. Actually Wordpress have an amazing ecosystem (maybe the best) for normal people (like lawyers, salespersons, housewives, and so on) who wants to learn (fast) how to create a professional website (something beyond Wix, for example).
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Perhaps the only thing I got from that was that young people in wealthy democracies do not understand how a government like theirs works and so do not understand the power they hold within themselves.

Way too often I've encountered young adults who express both a dislike of the way things are, and a feeling of helplessness to do anything about it. For those who feel strongly about things that "should" be done but aren't, the idea of just shooting anyone who disagrees with you appeals to them.

There are two problems, one is that political change is gradual enough that its hard to see when you are young. I point out victories like gay marriage rights, civil rights before them, and the fact that prohibition, as a constitutional amendment, was reversed by the people. But I totally get how unsatisfying it is to have to wait 5 years for any movement. I also ask them to look around at their friends, for the world is made up of people who have grown up from kids, and if you look in the "CEO" ranks or the "politician" ranks you will see they cluster around ages. Those people were babies before and are running the world now, when you and your friends are their age you will likely be running the world so think about which friends you want to motivate into office and which ones you would rather not get elected :-).
You linked another (related) article, discussed (not much) here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806713.

The hydrolic computation reminds me strongly of analog mechanical computers used by the Navy : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=navy+analog+com...
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I'm not going to claim that you can't make performant editors with web tech but recent snapshots of Light Table and VC Code are not all that fast for me for files that get beyond a hundred lines or so. Same with Atom.

It seems to usually be the syntax highlighting engines on first load of a file, or if you're moving code around, a simple cut and paste will show this too. I'd happily turn off highlighting since I find it distracting 99% of the time but ironically these editors don't allow that. Some of the editors make highlighting async but it makes it even more obvious when interacting with the view. There's a distinct pop-in then style effect that often happens.

Now the question: Why is highlighting slow? It seems like a lot of these editors still run lots of logic including highlighting i the UI thread still. Web workers could potentially help but of course there are still limits to how values are exchanged with the UI so it's likely non-trivial work. So, remind me again why it's an advantage to use a browser engine for this application? Portability is about the only thing I can think of but that hasn't stopped Sublime Text obviously.
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At first I thought it was some kind of joke, but I really doubt that they actually think that they'd be able to make it, unless the ECB gets an Indiegogo account =)
Insert generic 'me too' post here:

Hah, with both us here, we probably gathered 50% of the ex player base.

It's still alive, with little players though. But there is a community team that keeps it running and tries to untangle the decade old spaghetti code to balance it and fix old bugs.