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I worked with C# for years. I think it's a great language. I like its type safety and its advanced features (dynamic types, lambdas, async).

I got tired of how Microsoft managed the whole .NET ecosystem, uncertainty and changes regarding data access and web services libraries, etc.

Currently I'm working with Scala. It can be compared to C#, and some helpful features like immutability and case classes. I also like the JVM ecosystem (e.g. libraries, Linux compatibility).
Nice architecture. The proxy behavior sounds very similar to Pushpin [1], which supports listening from a ZeroMQ SUB socket and pushing out via HTTP streaming.

[1] http://pushpin.org
There is nothing in the game about 1024/being 10 rolls. You pay X to enter tge game on start, then you roll up to infinitely many times, and the paradox is what X should be.
I'm sorry, the difference is not as big as you think. The average ebook from very respectable publishers is awful in terms of editing and formatting.
I just finished up Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari -- which, while not groundbreaking, was supremely interesting and readable. If you like Aziz's standup, it's basically him playing sociologist for 200 pages.

Right now I'm going back and forth between Black Hat Python (because I owe it to myself to at least learn a little bit of this stuff) and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Carver. Two totally separate ends of the spectrum, but they're both great.
Hi guys I'm on the Community/Ecosystem side of NATS...timely comment. Persistence is actually on the roadmap but we only just discussed end of August at our Bay Area meetup:https://youtu.be/jxpYszUi8JQ

Please feel free to ping me with further questions, comments, ideas etc if you'd like to chat further: brian@apcera.com
Finally bought Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete so I'm perusing through those in between my school work/reading.

Also got Rapid Development for 5 dollars, but haven't started on that. Haven't really read any software engineering books like these before, but enjoying them so far.
Pretty much all of your post talks about art class. That's the way most art teachers are.
Sounds like the new S-Note has addressed some of your concerns. Strokes are vectors, and you can resize/ move individual strokes. You can zoom in & out of the page too.

You can change the notes background, including to backgrounds saved in your own image library. So you could create your own forms to fill in, but there's no guidance on how to design those background images. They're now a mix of Paper (background color/texture) and Pattern (eg repeating lines for writing on, or grids / dots for graph papers).

S-Note files are also in Android's file explorer, but I don't know of any program that can open them. You can export to PDF. Text searching is via Evernote, and I'm not sure its handwriting recognition is reliable with S-Note. Page management is still a pain. There's an option to convert your lasso into a square now & save it to your Scrapbook, but it isn't as easy as a crop tool.

I don't think there's a way to update S-Note, unless Samsung updates the whole tablet (ie to Android 5). Frustrating! The new S-Note would make your Note 8 much more powerful if there's a way to hack it onto there.
Case in point: You can define a type as an enum, a discriminated union, a record type, an interface, an abstract class, a class or a struct. You can have a primary constructor for a class or struct, or like a method with the new() keyword. You have namespaces and modules.
Aniara by Harry Martinson, an epic scifi poem (perhaps the only example of that genre?) written in 1956.
Godel, Escher, Bach was one of the things that inspired me to study math in college. These days I'm just trying to do more reading and less mindless web surfing, to see if it helps me think better. Right now: Sherlock Holmes.
I did not enjoy it either. Actually I ditched it about 2/3rds of the way when I realized it will never get better.
I highly recommend all of his Asian series. They're fantastic.
Just finished Guns, Germs and Steel by Jarod Diamond. A bit longer than it needed to be for my purposes but he covers the material in some depth, I'd definitely recommend it.

Prior to that I'd read Psycho Vertical by Andy Kirk Patrick which I would very strongly recommend, I don't think you need to be into climbing to enjoy it.

I think I'm about to start reading What the doormouse said by John Markoff or finish reading Technical revolutions and financial capital by Carlota Perez. I think I'll leave the latter and restart it when I've more brain time to spend on it.
I only have anecdotal evidence, but offer the heuristic that most "drunk enough to be dangerous" bicyclists can't ride fast enough to maim anyone -- and if they're riding down a hill, they're much more likely to be maimed.

There's an inherent barrier to entry that makes drunk biking difficult enough to limit those who can actually do it. Like how often do you see someone drunk on a road bike with clips? How many drunk people bike on busy roads where they're more likely to get killed than the guy in an air conditioned hunk of metal on wheels?

A reasonable person's analysis might conclude that it's better to say, "hey, let's bike to the bar" that's 4 miles away rather than "let's drive," because statistically you're as/more likely to fall down and injure yourself as if you'd walked, and will harm society much less than if you'd decided to pilot a machine that requires a fraction of the bodily coordination to get from A to B.
Thanks for doing the research that I was too lazy to do myself!
Be sure to read the comment below about how another student got into similar trouble for messing up with the school's unsecured network, but was able to blackmail his way out. (The school had committed insurance fraud.)

Funny how people change their attitude the second they realise they do not have the upper hand after all.
Godel, Escher and Bach

The elements of statistical learning

The murders of the Rue Morge (Poe stories mix)
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography.

I'm a huge Clapton fan so I'm finding it a really interesting read. He talks a lot about people who influenced/inspired him so it's also given me a wealth of new listening material.
Just finished the recent Ta-Nehisi Coates "Between the World and Me" and Toni Morrison's "Sula". Currently, I'm nearly finished with "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Specifying the rules for German Fraktur as executable code will be fun, as it uses the short s at the end of syllables, not words. So it is "Häschen" and "Häſcher"...
2FA and other measures aren't really a guarantee of anything though. Users need to own and control their data if the problem is really to go away. There would have to be an entire paradigm shift in the way business is done, the available technologies, and the way in which programmers solve problems.
Transmissions, for Django
I fully agree with this and the grandparent. I've written a handful of literate programs, and I found that it worked nicely for a parser, which read from top to bottom in a single file, and it worked quite well for some unit tests, where the extra documentation and the tests themselves - which are quite self-documenting anyway - sat together rather nicely (though it was less well-received by my colleagues, who decried it as neurotic and pointless). My other attempts - particularly a small web app with a bunch of GUI components - were much less successful.
It's a long list, because I'm guilty of interleaving my reading of dozens (or more) of books at at time. My Goodreads "currently reading" shelf has about 25 books in it. :-(

But of the ones I'm really actively reading right now, and plan to finish soon:

1. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy As The Fuel And Fire Of Thinking - Douglas Hofstader and Emmanuel Sander

2. The Gathering Storm - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

3. The Balanced Scorecard - David P. Norton and Robert S. Kaplan

Also, books that I don't really think of in terms of "reading" so much as "working through":

4. Learning R - Richard Cotton

5. Practical Common Lisp - Peter Seibel
Stuff Matters - Mark Miodownik

This is a really casual Material Science book. It's sub-title is "Exploring the marvelous materials that shape our man-made world." I am about a quarter of the way through and am really enjoying it. I really knew nothing about materials, this book served as a fun/interesting introduction to modern materials. The first chapter (my favorite thus far) was about metals. It goes into how different types of alloys are created and into sword making; what makes a good blade vs a brittle blade that will fall apart in combat(hint: it has to do with the amount of carbon in the blade. Too much and it is brittle. You want about 1% in the entire blade.)
Boiling water is a good way to make it safe to drink in dirty environments. If you have boiled water you might as well make tea.
i'd second that and add that having a physical book also makes annotating things a lot easier, at least than with my kobo. If I'm going to spend any significant time with a book, i prefer it being a physical copy.
Hell, they're even a danger to other cyclists when sober!

My girlfriend was injured a couple years ago when she was cut off recklessly by another student, also on a bicycle, and swerved to avoid him. End result was she wound up hitting loose gravel in a construction area, lost control, and ended up face-first into the pavement.

At university, I had a few near misses myself (as a pedestrian). I'd often park in one of the more distant lots and walk to class (one for the exercise, and two because it was nearly a two hour drive--I needed a stretch!), and the central thoroughfare was a wide, cement walkway that was mostly downhill. Most of the cyclists were cautious and traveled slowly, but there were always those (thankfully) few clowns who would race as fast as they could. I'm not sure if they were making a game of us as moving obstacles; regardless, I always kept an ear out behind me and kept far, far, far to the side near the grass!
"Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol", which I talked about in a thread recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10146846

Before that, it was "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II". I decided to read it because I saw a kinda not great movie about the period immediately after surrender, and I realized it was something I knew almost nothing about. It's good, but relatively academic; I cared about how the Japanese publishing industry and their literature changed over the time period, but not that much. It is worth it, though, as I knew very little about Japan in this period. Something that drives this home is that for Japan, "the war" for the Japanese people essentially lasted from 1931 (when Japan invaded Manchuria) to 1952 (when the US occupation of Japan ended) - I had never thought of it that way before.
Currently reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (http://hpmor.com/). It's an alternate Harry Potter story where Harry is a genius scientist and rationalist. Hilarious and well worth a read.
IACA is a very useful tool. When working on the LLVM compiler I've used it extensively.
Disclosure: Voltdb requires $$$? for HA. Even the sales guy didn't reply back after some emails.
Kind of an interesting idea. You might consider opening up the back end as a platform for freelancers, including ratings and testimonials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement

It might fall under a permitted derivative work but it looks like they just did a freehand drawing of the photo explicitly intending to provide an equivalent substitute. If it doesn't qualify as a derivative work it might be willful copyright infringement.
Show HN: Monitordroid – Access and manage Android devices from a web browser
You submitted this already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9909008

No, turning it into a button is not sufficient differentiation.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
"King Rat" is on my stack. I read "Shogun", and I'm curious about "King Rat" because he was a Japanese POW, and "King Rat" is his first novel, and that's what it's about.
Just finished reading this myself and would highly recommend it. Both Shogun and Tai Pan were thoroughly enjoyable reads. Deeply woven plots with rich characters and historical intrigue.
What do you think the future is for professionals?

I've noticed that there is an awful lot of very-high-quality content being produced for free, Worm and Shadows of Limelight are better than most published fiction, but are free and the authors seem uninterested in anything more than Patreon donations. As making art is something people enjoy and there are no bottlenecks to distribution, maybe we should expect there to be fewer professional artists and vast entertainment niches filled by popular amateur or part-time artists.

I sort of imagine a world where one can have millions of readers and still can't be a pro - but probably Patreon would pay a living wage after that point.
apparently that work is outdated (or incomplete) since 2010..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%E1%BA%9E

"Capital sharp s (ẞ) [...] never occurs word-initially in German text, and traditional German printing (which used blackletter) never used all-caps. When using all-caps, current spelling rules require the replacement of ß with SS.[1] However, in 2010 the use of the capital sharp s became mandatory in official documentation when writing geographical names in all-caps."
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by Wallace and Erickson - because it came out in 1993 it is interesting to read what they saw as the MS empire back then. I am taking a while to read it because every time they mention a name I have to go look that person up online to see what has happen in the 20+ years since the book came out. It is very interesting to see who has went on to notoriety and who has been forgotten. For example, they devote 2 pages to this guy named Gabe Newell...
I'm going to guess that the Pi uses ext3/4 which I'm assuming does pretty well with appending files on a spinning disk.

Yes, we need something tailored for flash and the advent of SSDs have put some effort into that. However, the controller of a SD-card is for understandable reasons not as advanced as one on an SSD. One of the issues that seemed prevalent of the Pi was that SD-cards, when issuing a TRIM command, just erases the flash - immediately. Which of course kind of defeats the purpose and leads to bad performance (trying to optimize for future writes by sacrificing current writes).

The recommendation that I saw was to schedule a pass clearing free space for when the Pi wasn't in active use.

Problem with the controller doing some of the stuff (which I guess is inevitable due to different design needs) and the file system doing some other stuff is that when the filesystem is paired with a bad controller (but one that still does some kind of wear leveling) you are kind of screwed anyway, because either implementation can not rely on the other.
So, just use an SSD instead?

I guess it's worse on the Pi since it's somewhat trying to be a workstation on mobile hardware. And sometimes I get the impression that even phone makers can't tailor it well anyway (samsungs android filesystem for the older phones were apparently pretty awful for instance). And android only got TRIM support in, I believe, Kitkat? But only if the whole chain of device hardware and drivers supported it (so god knows which current devices actually support it)... Learning that was quite shocking to me and probably a large source of "my phone just keeps getting slower" problems. But who cares if it just accelerates sales of new phones?
Streaming Anomaly Detection Using Randomized Matrix Sketching [pdf]
At least it isn't Zookeeper. Our Zookeeper cluster was the biggest PITA I've ever dealt with.
I don't think they are using real-time in the same way as the computer science real-time. don't see how a second delay from logstash would matter.
In between books right now, but...

Next one:

Genocide of One - Takano

Previous three:

Malice - Keigo Higashino

The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino

Salvation of A Saint - Keigo Higashino
Kip's a very long time and skilled BSD hacker. The landlord episode is completely irrelevant to this subject.
Annotated Realtime Raytracing
I unofficially abandoned "Quicksilver" about halfway through. I thought I was the only geek who wasn't enamored with his writing.
And that puzzles me: how useful is a logging solution which can loose log messages by design? In an environment where "babies will die"? Maybe there is durable logging somewhere else? What am I missing here?
Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

Excellent popular science intro to, well, nearly everything.

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, fast and slow

Absolute recommendation. Is changing my perspective on myself and the world with every chapter.
CIA sucks my dick.
I thought this was going to be about Lawrence's unhappiness with special relativity. Cyclotrons have an upper limit on particle velocity. As particles are accelerated, they have more mass, and the cyclotron's elegant balance between inertia and the containment fields is lost. This was the first time relativity had engineering consequences. Lawrence didn't like that, and doubted whether something as abstract as special relativity could affect his machines.

Nobody knew if bombing Japan was going to end the war, including the Supreme War Council in Japan. War Minister Anami wanted to go on with the war after the first atomic bombing, saying the Allies couldn't have more than one bomb. After the second bomb, he signed a surrender document and committed ritual suicide. There was a big Army pro-war fight-to-the-end faction, which tried a last-minute coup attempt to prevent the surrender.[1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Japans-Longest-Pacific-Research-Societ...
Would be nice if it indicated it in some way beyond colour-coding, for the benefit of the colour-blind and those who don't catch on.
Social+Media+|+The+Social+Media+Hat
I always liked Swift for the pragmatic solution to null reference issues, perhaps the most attractive aspect of that language to me, so this is nice to see!
I've just discovered Greg Egan, so I've read Diaspora, Quarantine, and I just finished Distress. I'm working on Axiomatic, which is a collection of his short stories. His characters are a little flat and his endings feel a little odd, but I love the worldbuilding and the ideas.

I'm having trouble finding other people who've read him and want to talk about his books, though.
How did you like Between the World and Me? I haven't read it yet, but it's on my list and I really enjoy TNC's writing.
Generative Art, a Practical Guide Using Processing by Matt Pearson, and Learning Three.js, The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL by Jos Dirksen
A People's History of the United States and
A Twist of the Wrist II (no - it's not what you think :-)
Could've been me if my HS administrators had a lick of savvy.
Saltwater Buddha-
Great book which teaches some buddhist concepts through the lens of a young surfers comig of age story. Really good stuff
I'm reading How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams and I'm about to start The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.

I'm also reading again Comme un roman by Danil Pennac, a beautiful essay about the joys of reading.
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The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger, contains a revelatory research upon nature of human consciousness, makes me question about what existing AIs do wrong, and what is exactly the human intellect, feeling and emotion.
Browser extension lets you collect Amazon Payback Points
The Complete Guide to A/B Testing Blog Titles
Too bad? The overwhelming majority of pages work without javascript.
Also, I should add we've made some significant updates since the article you referenced, and are currently performing additional benchmarking, but some examples: https://twitter.com/derekcollison/status/635541819393245184

It would be helpful to understand what you are trying to achieve, and what characteristics in messaging infrastructure are most important to you?
The Race to Frictionless Parking
"A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.

Very "propagandistic" and politically charged, but that's something the author promptly assumes. Quite interesting (especially for an european) in the way it explains the origins of the american ethos ("land of the free") and how said ethos can be interpreted as a subversive political tactic to further the interests of a selected few.
This is extra fun considering WebGL.
The weaker road is to circle the wagons, my friend. Because someone seems good at something excuses criminal behavior through systematic harassment, intimidation, threats and attempted endangerment the lives of others? I think not. We should forget because of the slap on the wrist in San Quentin? I doubt it. But you would let him off the hook and forget about it, it's unimportant. Riight. That sort of behavior bleeds over because it makes a person a liability, rendering them untrustworthy for anything significant. Jeremy Clarkson was handled appropriately, Macy was not. As further evidence, I know of at least five (5) startups whom passed on about a dozen seemingly technical badasses for being too arrogant... capable but unable to mesh with various ventures. In a word: hubris. If a community's leadership doesn't consistently defend boundaries of civility, it's not going to endure because teams are fragile and cofounder/early participant squabbles kill more ventures/projects than anything else. Someone like that must prove beyond measure that they have changed, especially when others think no one's watching... Or they're just playing society for fools, again.

(The five startups all found exceptionally smart and nice early employees, and four of them exited in 7-8 figure territory. One combined with amother startup and pivoted.)
Take a Deep Breath, Then Check Your Smartphone
Oops sorry for the mistaken down vote!
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I need to implement a superset of lisp so I figured why not go to the basics. It has been a very fun read so far. Was particularly happy to see the chapter that starts with a quote from On Human Understanding.
If you are liking "Thinking, fast and slow", you should check "Descartes' Error" by António Damásio (USC neurologist).
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

It discusses what happened in the 2012 Benghazi attack from the perspective of the CIA contractors who were there.
I stopped using my nexus 7 as soon as I got a phone with a 5.2 inch screen. I think if you own a phablet it duplicates the tablet's functionality while having the benefit of being always with you.
OpenSSL allows (by virtue of doing nothing to check for) composite p and/or q for RSA keys. Is there something here beyond "if you use parameters from an untrusted source you might have a bad time"?
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Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Really enjoying it. Interesting how certain times can shape the perspective of the roles of society, companies and government.

Before that I read the entire Game of Thrones series. Not really worth the time invested if you ask me, but it was fun nonetheless. Might be one of those few books where watching their TV version is more enjoyable (disclosure: haven't watched the series).

On the technical side, I'm trying to read Google's papers once in a while. Good mixture of theoretical background with practical approaches.
Same here, I also did basically the same thing in 1997. I wasn't expelled but I was banned from my senior prom and served a lengthy in-school suspension stint.

The administration threatened to write to the colleges I'd already been accepted to and try to get those offers withdrawn, but as far as I know that was just a threat.
> And because there's no REPL

Working on it -- you can expect a public pre-release soon. The code is in master right now: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Interactive.... I'll have to check with the dev to see how installing it is supposed to work, but he demo'd it on Friday and it looked very slick.