skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one that clinched it for me was an article pointing out that the large airports in California are at capacity and expansion is either expensive, or impossible. You either need to spend couple of billion each to expand those air ports, or throw the money at high speed rail.

Also the big expense is not the high speed rail part of the system, is the commuter rail part through the bay area and LA. That;s the expensive bit. Not the straight high speed sections through the central valley.
I use a custom hosts file (well, technically I run it as an internal DNS server) from Someone Who Cares to block most of the aforementioned annoyances: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

It works very well for me so I'd recommend it to others, if they're not already aware of it.
LLVM converts your input language into the intermediate representation (LLVM IR) with a frontend. Then, a backend takes IR and spits out code for an ISA.

IR is ISA agnostic. Compiling the same code to x86 and ARM will have the same IR, it's only the backend step that's different. Thus, of course you can take IR "meant for ARM" and compile it to "x86" and get full optimisation. The IR isn't meant for ARM anyway, IR is just IR.
Interesting, can you give a link? I tried to find it, it's not here https://github.com/tc39/ecma262 Only mention is "Typed objects" but that is not TS-like annotation.
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Well that's disappointing - I guess it means it won't be free anymore or will start to be restricted in how it can be parsed. RIP.
The con is it's very difficult to get a government to lower taxes, not so difficult to have them increase it. Also that thing P.J. O'rourke said: giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

I'm not aware of having met anyone who has ever said "I want to pay more tax", but I've met plenty of people who have said "that other group of people should pay more tax".
Here is the original paper on Arxiv:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03859

What the linked article fails to mention among all the fantasizing about light sabers is that this kind of interaction is only possible in matter. These "molecules made of light" can only exist when photons interact with atoms while the light travels in a very special medium.

In vacuum, photon-photon interactions do not allow for any kind of bound states like that.
Can I ask for a link on that? Thanks!
I mention this because I keep running into people who have never heard it, but the "infamous" Apple visit to Xerox resulted in a licensing agreement where Xerox was paid in pre-IPO stock for a license to use the elements that they had developed. (Xerox had not developed a "GUI" but had certain elements. AS this article documents, there were 6 years of work that led to the first GUI in the Lisa, though of course some of the innovations were licensed from Xerox most of it was not.)

By the way- When Apple did go public, it was a massive event, and big news. It was the biggest, most successful IPO of all time. It was bigger, for its day, than Google's or Facebooks were. (Though of course coming much later those were bigger in absolute terms.)
I was making bank in high school (for a hs student) making those flash intros for people. Then I made a flash video of my teacher with her hair on fire and almost got expelled. Versatile technology indeed.
A lot of people hate anything Flash but Adobe Flex was a really great tool to create web apps at one time (before the spark components). It introduced a lot of cool things for making web apps like two way data-bindings, asynchronous requests, event listeners at core of everything, MXML components with repeaters, etc - many of these things that AngularJS does now with Javascript.

If their browser plugin wasn't so buggy and non-standard it could have been a really good alternative.
A great story, thanks for reminding me of it!

Another interesting but little-known story by Eliezer is http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/.
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Yeah, like "War And Peace" is about Russia in the times of Napoleon, and all "The Art of Computer Programming" says is "here is a bunch of algorithms".
On the other side of the coin, I'd say mobile clients offer more opportunities for local p2p distribution (Bluetooth, etc)
It's widely disputed that LLVM bitcode is actually ISA-agnostic. There is a HN comment quoting Chris Lattner as saying that CPU independence isn't really the point of bitcode apps (I'd find it now but I'm on mobile). The thought is that it has a lot more to do with the ability to re-optimize.
>"Writing a program and then running it is magic, in a way."

Even after 30 years in the industry it still feels this way (most days).
It's been a while since I worked in AI research but although I worked in agent architecture and model based reasoning I was came to believe in the approach of "the world is its own best model" associated with Rodney Brooks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture

i.e. Why put so much effort into modelling the world to allow reasoning when you can interact with the world to answer the same questions.
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The coke machine and learning the Dvorak keyboard in the UCC. Fun times.
I'm assuming that once ipns starts to work reliably you'll add the support for it? Or is there something that would prevent it? (I mean for single-user repo anyway - multi-user would have to share the key... somehow)
What a useless, devoid of content, self wanking article. I guess the Uber CEO write at least half of it.
In my experience in practice there is no big difference, really, its just a matter of a few keywords.

As for "having to change an entire call stack", that just stopped happening after a while. The rule of thumb was that if the function is impure (e.g. relying on mutable state) then it will likely become async, too. That lets me plan ahead.
There's even an explicit bijection that has a formula associated with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin%E2%80%93Wilf_tree
Just to point out -- hypertext systems prior to the web almost universally expected permanent stable addresses (and this was, for instance, required by the various Xanadu specs). Enquire (Tim Berners-Lee's immediate predecessor to the Web) had permanent stable addresses, too.

The web didn't have permanent stable addresses because the web was a hack, intended as a way to explain Enquire to people who didn't have a background in real hypertext systems. (Let the entire existence of the Web, with its myriad flaws, be a lesson to you: your crappiest demo may well become the thing you're known for twenty-five years later, so make sure your crappiest demo doesn't suck as bad as the Web does.)
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> Compiling the same code to x86 and ARM will have the same IR

This is incorrect. Clang has specific code paths (producing different IR) for x86 and ARM, specifically around calling conventions but I'm sure there are more.
This has been stated before: LLVM Bitcode is architecture specific. It's dependent on the architectures ABI and can contain inline assembly. There are LLVM targets with corresponding ABIs that are nonspecific to architectures like PNaCL but Apple is not using them

Things Apple can do with bitcode:
Produce binaries optimized for different ARM processors. Reoptimize with new versions of LLVM as soon as they are available. Use a big database of LLVM IR to tweak optimizations. Keep some optimizations secret and not even publish binaries doing them.

The biggest argument IMO that speaks against an Apple ISA is that they would have to rewrite tons of hand tuned assembly code.
I feel far less intelligent after a day spent in front of a computer or a book than I do after a day spent walking in the woods.

Odd, for me it's the other way around. I may feel more at peace, more relaxed and better able to fall asleep when I was in the wood, but I definitely don't feel as intellectually enriched as I do after reading a book or on the PC.
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I believe it's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9728162
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I believe Gordon Rugg is on the right track:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mystery-of-the...

"SciAm, 2004: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

New analysis of a famously cryptic medieval document suggests that it contains nothing but gibberish"

He showed how easy were to produce new gibberish texts with the same properties using the device of these times.
Limited access to parts is mostly about patents so even if you had all the knowledge in the world you are prevent by the state to create what is needed to do the repairs. After the patent is expired we often find that the social contract between inventor and state is violated, and society do not in fact gain the necessary information to replicate the invention by reading the patent. There has been some political discussion to force car manufacturers to provide equal access to parts in order to protect the free market for car repairs and maintenance.

Then we have digital locks (DRM) which the article brings up which artificially prevents customers from repairing. You can have all the knowledge in the world and still not be able to fix a simple issue since the digital signature of the part won't be accepted by the device. There has been political discussion around the world to forbid this kind of technical restrictions in cars or at least force retailers to inform the customer about the limitations.

Both issues impacts customer rights and is entirely political in nature. The problem of having enough knowledge, access to documentation, or skill to perform repairs is all secondary problems once the political right to repair is granted.
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This is a freebie, so you can use it for your personal projects or for clients projects for free, without paying for a license, it comes with Personal and Developer license by default. But you cannot use it for a SaaS application where the final user has to pay to use it.

There will be also a PRO version which will be more complex with more customizations options and you will be able to use it in SaaS too.
That's because flexbox is still prefixed in Safari 8 (see http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox). Just add -webkit- versions of all of the properties as well and it will probably work. e.g. "display: -webkit-flex".
The Talent Code is a fantastic read. Just want to add an extra big thank you for the reference.
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There are plans for a (distributed) search engine: https://github.com/ipfs/archives/issues/8
To some extent, it does own it. Ever tried to push even a mildly controversial patch to LLVM or Clang upstream? If Apple guys are against it, it's a full stop, no matter how many other parties are interested.

And their reasons to be against a particular patch are often as simple as that it'll break compatibility with their internal, unpublished changes to LLVM.

Learned it the hard way...
Thanks I'll try that.
Have a look at the "certificate" section of Gandi's API https://github.com/Gandi/gandi.cli/blob/master/gandicli.man....

And check out SSLmate https://sslmate.com/
" My impression of Julia’s parallel computation facilities so far, admittedly limited, is similar."

1. Not good to make assertions that you immediately undermine by admitting you don't know what you are talking about
2. I find @spawn and @fetch quite nice, in fact I think that Julia was built from the ground up around notions of parallelism (ie. multiple dispatch)
I am always amazed when people can't figure out that google is doing this because their business model is based on "targeted advertising", which necessarily requires gathering as much personal information as possible.

All of their products are designed to give them different kinds of data, and being the man-in-the-middle to the entire internet on a per-household basis gives Google an incredibly fine-grained picture of the patter-of-life of the people that use their ISP service.

Being able to steal Comcast's market is just a nice side benefit.
Actually, the bus stations were (and still are) used by a lot of people! Car owning in USSR was nowhere near the levels of western countries and the majority of people relied on public transportation. The article has a reference to Jonathan Meades' photobook in which there is a photo of the bus station in one of the Republic of Moldova villages called Șipoteni¹. They "seem to be in the middle of nowhere" indeed, because the main roads/routes don't always come into the middle of the villages but at the right time these stations are full of people that may wait up to a half an hour there. It was just natural for the authorities to try to exceed themselves in the eyes of the villagers as there aren't many opportunities for them to do so! (Villagers didn't use to need much from the system.)

¹ http://fuel-design.com/media/uploads/thumbs/uploads/homepage...
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I'm not sure it would be new courses; but it would be new manners to do projects and present, much like PowerPoint was introduced decades ago. It's right there alongside the course, like a chem lab is right behind the desks in chemistry class.
I've always wondered if Windows or other operative systems read the entire hosts file everytime they want to resolve an address. Maybe a big hosts file is bad for network performance?
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> Although Kalanick had been a startup guy since high school, he was a grinder, not a mogul. He had made enough on his last one, RedSwoosh, to buy a house and do a bit of angel investing.

Oh no big deal, only enough to have complete financial security at the age of 30.
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And then there's tech like getting rid of all the toll takers on the GG bridge. I honestly haven't crossed to bridge since the complete conversion. Partly, because I never found San Franciso that romantic, don't work in the city anymore, and part, because I don't want to wait for a bill in the mail.

Hay--GG bridge district members. I have a feeling you are missing out of a lot of toll form casual bridge users? Some of us would pay your tolls with our spare physical currency, and spend the day in that city--buying stuff?

yes--it's off topic, and I don't think a traditional startup had anything to do with the the elimination of toll takers.

I just hope technology solves real problems, and isn't used to make the rich richer, or only provides good tech jobs in good unusual economic boom times? I know right now I could live without 75% of this new technology. Kind of a weird confession--huh? And no--I'm not a Luddite? Well, I hope I'm not? I know, I do miss hanging out in Book stores? Starbucks doesn't cut it? And, I haven't been to a movie theater in years? And I honestly don't like meeting people over the Internet? I do like the immediacy of this tool though?
Why don't we have a decent Tesla movie?

Because we have yet to make one. How do you and your friends like making movies?

Yet, where's the big time Hollywood treatment?

That isn't a story they want to tell. __period__ Why would they? What benefit of mass entertainment would it serve? Hint: Look at the etymology of `entertain`.
Is there a version in English?
They might want to merge ARM and x86 and create a super-ISA that allows them to run binaries from either platform in the new super-CPU, which might incidentally be fast enough to make emulating an OSX system quite feasible .. while letting us run iApps, &etc. Maybe, when Apple want to merge their products all into one base architecture, and create the SuperPad, it'll have a CPU that lets OSX+iOS apps run, side-by-side, with ease ..
Test, optimize and test again
They provide a model with a touchscreen for an extra $7. However, you can't work with other screens and build and write your own interface because on the Pi, all the display modesetting is handled by the closed-source binary blob running on the undocumented parts of the GPU, and the RPi Foundation won't enable DSI connector support in it for anything other than the official screen they sell. It's a fairly common hobbyist thing to do on more open boards, it's just not possible on the Pi.
Which do you think makes more business sense. Allow a highly profitable and influential customer to gradually move away from your product over a period of many years or just force them to leave immediately.
"The new service is expected to push data charges lower in the Philippines. Access to the Internet costs about $18 a megabit per second in the country, more than three times the global average of $5, according to research firm International Data Corp. or IDC."

I don't think this will happen considering PLDT owns all the infrastructure:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/2aurzq/how_pld...
There is the theory of general causality developed by Judea Pearl, which as far as I've understood implies that you need to be able to purposefully affect the world you're observing in some way to do experiments before you are able to infer causal relationships even in theory. See eg. http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
>How many Jobs/Apple movies do we need?

I know, and mostly agree with your sentiment. But I think this one has been in the pipeline for a good while (four years [0]), and is probably the one I've been waiting for because of the Boyle/Sorkin collaboration. The others seemed rushed out just to cash in on Job's life.

That said I'm still particularly fond of "Pirates of Silicon Valley"[1], I thought Noah Wiley as a younger Jobs was a fairly good effort..

[0]: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/25/steve-jobs-movie-coul...

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122
Update: The fixed version is live, and I have confirmation that it's working correctly on iPhone 6+.
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But problem is that it is. It's a EU law, so while I agree with you, I sense the IPFS will clash with this law. Let's wait and see, progress can't be stopped though...
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My very limited experience with the UK was that everything was incredibly expensive, except for beer.
There was a recent This American Life episodes about this. Apparently the best way to raise poor black children's scores is to remove segregation, but white communities don't want it:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t...

I'm from the UK and was genuinely shocked. While there are disparities and issues over here, they're on a different scale compared to the US.
It's a matter of degree. I have a two-year old, and while he's certainly not off exploring forests or anything, the majority of the time when he's at a playground these days, I'm sitting at a bench on the side watching him play. He occasionally falls, even from things that are probably "too big" for him, but most playgrounds are built in a way that serious injury is pretty rare.

There are absolutely parents that stay within a couple of feet of their 2-3 year old children. I had one comment to me a couple of weeks ago how confident with climbing, running, etc. my two year old was - it took a lot of restraint to not say "He climbs well because I let him climb."
And Apple has a long and reasonably successful history when it comes to forcing developers to adopt new approaches e.g. PowerPC, Intel, 64-bit, LLVM, OSX.
Brewster Kahle (IA founder) has expressed a public interest in IA acting as a seeder for distributed websites, so IA definitely still has a place.
Lol I'm never gonna touch a product by Eyeo / Palant / Faida again.
Their policy and choices makes their products much worthless than they were, which are now racketwares, not to mention the addons are bloated.

Adblocking on iOS will go through OS content blocking for me.
I have not been able to find an English translation. Google Translate does a great job at this text and I think its worth the work for people interested in early global networked messaging and computing with Mainframes, Unix, pre-TCPIP, post-TCPIP etc...

After googling after some exotic hardware mentioned in the text, I found a translated section from this text in "History of Nordic Computing" [0].

I am helping my girlfriend with an internal project in SAS, and I found this text when I was searching for documentation on an ancient Mainframe "QQLIF file" which is still in use today!
This text does indeed contain a description of it:

"All messages in and out of systems were logged on logtapes, so we started using them
to extract traffic in the network.
IBM mainframe computer was we used for our data processing and SAS (Statistical Analysis
System) was the "language" we programmed in.
At an earlier point, we had been losing track over which terminals we had and
where they stood. Therefore, we had already built up a widely used file called QQLIF and
contained a variety of information about each terminal. It was both a real time
online "direct access" file at Unisys, and a batch copy on IBM. Mainframes known terminal's trust,
and by means of QQLIF file could be translated into PLID. Because of strict PLID'ens
building could we add line drop, controls, and terminal for individual messages."

[0] https://books.google.dk/books?id=c7MlCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA276&lpg=P...
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This article points to another bit of the technology stack that Apple doesn't own - LLVM IR.

LLVM is open source and therefore doesn't require licensing unlike the ARM Instruction Set, but it's another thing they don't perfectly control and they're happy with that.

Developing a new ISA would be extremely expensive, and they'd have to have a really good reason for doing it. The post doesn't suggest why it would be beneficial, merely extrapolates a pattern.
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Apple does not use ARM designs, they use certain principles present in the ARM architecture and the ISA.

Wikipedia:

"Companies can also obtain an ARM architectural licence for designing their own CPU cores using the ARM instruction sets. These cores must comply fully with the ARM architecture."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Licensing
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How does garbage collection work? Does this version improve on the R I know from a year ago, which had a reference counting system with only three values: 0, 1, and 2+?
In a lot of stealth games like Metal Gear series you can kill only one or two bosses through the whole game, but it's extremely difficult.
Genuinely curious here: what additional data would Google get as an ISP that it doesn't already get via search, Gmail, ads, etc? Or do you mean "man-in-the-middle" in the cryptographic sense, and you think Google is playing mini-NSA and start spoofing Facebook certs so it can eavesdrop on SSL connections or something?

See also Google Fiber's privacy policy:

Other information from the use of Google Fiber Internet (such as URLs of websites visited or content of communications) will not be associated with the Google Account you use for Fiber, except with your consent or to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.

https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html
https://tweag.github.io/HaskellR/docs/managing-memory.html

https://tweag.github.io/HaskellR/docs/memory-allocation.html

Both these links have more information on this.

As far as I can tell (and most of this is way over my head) the native R garbage collection is used