skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of two things: I either do not understand Wall Street's obsession with blockchainesque technologies, or Wall Street's obsession with it is totally emblematic of their buzzword-obsessed technology-ignorant groupthink that fried the tech industry in the late 90's.

I'm seeing companies like this pop up all over the place. Blythe Masters's new venture[1], which made the cover of this month's Bloomberg Business, seems to be the pinnacle.

Bitcoin technologies solved some very important problems in the creation of currencies: double spending, decentralization, cost distribution, &c. These are not problems that need to be solved in securities trading. One company running on one platform doesn't have a double spendng problem. Decentralization is irrelevant. And cost is no issue.

Yes, the securities trading industry is wrought with disgusting inefficiencies, and technology should play a central role in becoming more efficient, but I do not see how shoehorning in blockchain tech helps in any way. If keeping track of ownership and transfer of securities is such a cumbersome process, make a company that keeps track of ownership and transfer of securities. Use computers. Use web interfaces. Make transactions publicly viewable. Create robust contract definitions. Remove paper trails. Hire programmers. Pay AWS. But I have no clue how they think blockchain technology adds to any solution here.

I don't know. Someone please explain.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-09-01/blythe-mas...
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And I hope she wins her million dollar verdict and lives happily ever after.
"All of Haskell"
> Sane people are comfortable with death.

Check your arrogance levels, they're way off.

Sane people are actually very much afraid of death. Anyone would have a much easier time proving that it is insanity not to be afraid of death, than the opposite.

> It takes a weird sort of narcissism to pursue cryonics.

It takes a much nastier sort of narcissism to be judgemental about how people decide their bodies will be handled after death.

> Dying in the jungle in pursuit of the fountain of youth or bathing in the blood of the young rightfully comes off as bonkers to healthy people.

Nobody is bathing in blood. If this is what you are actually reading in this topic, I recommend therapy.
Yeah, this is a good point. Both math and music have extremely ad-hoc and inconsistent syntax.
The sum total cost paid by users of maps in data charges and electricity alone outweigh the cost of implementing a public system. Just because the cost is distributed does not mean it's not being paid.
pandoc, shellcheck and xmonad.
is this still the list of things you can install that were written in haskell that are used for something that isn't writing haskell code?
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That is an allusion to life and death, but I don't see anything about suicide.
The phrase "debt fuelled binge" come to mind.

The 2008 mortgage crisis was a shocker, but I think we may be under-prepared for the next financial crisis that's going to be made in China.
The book is outdated but still has a tone of useful information ant it fully covers HTTP 1.1, which is still the most up-to-date version of HTTP protocol. According to W3Techs only 1.2% of all websites support HTTP/2 (August 2015).
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> Much of the time, I slept through the three alarms I set each morning, then put a pot of hot water for oatmeal and coffee on the propane stove.

This sentence struck me as odd. I think that the author would do well to connect with her needs as a human, because a regular sleep pattern would do her wonders and is one of the most beautiful things about being able to set your own schedule.
Node.js 4.0.0 is 8% faster
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I am curious what has Vxworks on the 787. Anything D and Up sure ( DO178B(c) ) but anything else would need to be certified at a level that I thought only two other RTOS's on the market where certified for critical systems. Integrity and LynxOS-178. I also believe critical systems are air gapped from non critical as well.
Actually, only tree is real. "Forest" is a mental construction - just region of space with the density of trees being high enough. Play with that "high enough" variable, and a meaning of "forest" will drift.
Modernizer 3 released
Pretty awesome - the only thing I would change is for the ability to switch to Intel syntax for the disassembly. Maybe I'm the only one - but I find intel syntax easier to read.
For me - yes. I had never needed to use "Restrictions" before, and it would seem much more obvious to be able to customize the display of the application from within the app. It also doesn't make all that much sense that by turning off one of the tabs, it would be replaced with an actually useful tab - playlists.

I don't work in UI/UX and I'm not an iPhone power user, so perhaps it's just me.
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> easy to parse

There's a few things, like fixity declarations, that make parsing Haskell not quite as easy as it could be.
The information will be in the exif data of the image. There are various tools to do this if you search for exif. Here is some information doing it using c# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58649/how-to-get-the-exif...
For me, the only reason cryonics appeals to me is that I really really want to see the kinds of things humanity will come up 100 years down the line, 1000 years down the line... it's unimaginable but I really want to see our future and experience it. Hopefully by the time I'm in my 50's, cryogenics will be far more advanced and it will be a feasible alternative to simply disappearing.
While I think current lengths are too long (they are virtually unlimited) they do nothing to obstruct creativity that it was designed to incentivize. Copyrights were designed to encourage the creation of original art, not derivative art.
All programs are compilers when you come down to it. Even web apps compile web requests to HTML. There are just two kinds of programs: compilers, and daemons (which are just compilers with an infinite loop).
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I have finished the error message and pushed to Github. Thank you for your input. I will look at the link you have referenced soon. --nunzio
Rust defaults to run-time bounds-checked array accesses, but iterators mean that the bounds only need to be checked once.
This isn't a beginner resource, Stephen himself has said that. It's a great post-learning-the-basics supplemental.
He is also stone cold paranoid, hard to reason with, charges extra full amount for different OSes when the codebase is the same (he is using QT for fucks sake), extra for x64 (the PRO version), and has kept a stranglehold on the entire reverse engineering community because of his proprietary offering. We are worse off due to IDA, not better.
I think this is clearly a case that proves Richard Stallman right. People should be actively looking to migrate away from IDA, not strengthen it.
Here's a poor man's version that uses <$50 of hardware (a wii remote and an ir led)

If anyone's interested in playing around with it I'll put up some nicer usage instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8JnC7-K8k

https://github.com/liamuk/Omniboard
People pay Nasdaq to make their trades reliable and safe.

Reliable and safe trades can now be done by a swarm of computers running free software, and they only charge a tiny margin over the costs of bandwidth, energy and storage.

How is Wall Street supposed to make money now? They're all trying to find out, and they all need to be the first. Financial profits will be much smaller, and the slow movers will have a smaller slice of a smaller pie.
I've considered most of them, actually.

One consistent, niggling problem with all of these languages is that they are still obscure compared to everything else, with all that this entails: It's harder to find developers who already know the languages well enough to be true masters, let alone find juniors who are interested and capable of picking them up; the languages are often complicated and unfriendly, so junior developers will again struggle.

Something I've learned the last few years is that while having only wizards on your team is great, it's useful to have access to a less advanced contingent of developers who can still contribute productively.

In the end, if you buy into something that not every shop uses, there will be a lot of sunk cost into having brought everyone into the fold, and you end up being an "OCaml shop" or "Haskell shop" or whatever. Productivity will probably normalize, but I'm not sure I want to go down that route.

OCaml looks to me like the most promising functional language with the fewest warts, the most pragmatic approach to real-world apps, and possibly the best performance. But it's not a simple language, with a learning curve that's similar to Haskell. I also have to say that like Erlang, the toolset and syntax occasionally feels antiquated (for example, there's no excuse not to provide a modern readline-enabled REPL). OCaml still is not good at concurrency.

Scala has some good parts, but is overdesigned and way too complex, in my opinion. Last I checked, performance was worse Java. It also runs on the JVM, which means its memory usage is inherently inefficient.

F# is a language that I like a lot; in some ways it looks like a more pragmatic Haskell, or Ocaml with a cleaner syntax. I don't like the fact that it's tied to .NET, which (like Java) means it inherits all the issues from that platform. The performance on Mono looks unsatisfying.

Haskell is also a language I like a lot — at least in theory. I've been disappointed with performance and memory usage (and the ability to reason about those things). The tools for concurrency (and OTP-type distributed networking) also seem very much lacking. Whenever I see an example of parallel async code in Haskell, I feel like I'm reading an advanced physics paper. While I like and understand the approach to purity, I feel like the tools get in the way of programming; that I have to work at getting in and out of effectful code just so that I can stay pure, and for what reason? Bugs caused by side effects is something I encounter only a few times a year, if that; Haskell builds a huge wall to solve something that isn't a problem for me. Nor do I enjoy that laziness is the default. Finally, there are parts of the language that seem immature; the well-known data record namespacing issue (being fixed?), and the sheer awkwardness that comes with trying to implement certain things (like polymorphic collections and directed graphs) that should be simple, but aren't. Still, it's a beautiful language, but not one I would use for everything.

Clojure is the JVM, again. It's also not statically typed. From everything I've seen, performance is worse than Java.
I suspect that's only because you speak to English speakers. That's sort of the point the guy is making :-)
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It's just weird to think that we drove them all to extinction so quickly and so effectively in a relatively short space of time. Long before we had agriculture or non stick-and-rock technology. How did we do it? A few Homo sapiens wander into Eurasia, which already has a population of millions of Homo, and all the other Homos die off?

I'm not advancing an alternative theory or saying its wrong, I'm just saying its surprising.
It's going to suck being part of the first batches of people before Alcor really figured out how to freeze people properly.
Can't help but mention Fravia. RIP :(
I came to know of softIce through his essays.
http://71.6.196.237/fravia/aca400.htm

his softice essays: http://71.6.196.237/fravia/project2.htm
The solar system (and systems beyond it) are the perfect solution to that concern. Massive asteroid belts, lifeless planets and moons, jovian planets, and all of the rest of space's vast resources are practically limitless compared to what we have here inside the gravity well. There's no need to damage a planet's biosphere for resource extraction or industry when space offers us so much more once we get out there.

That won't stop a lot of very stupid people from protesting the one solution that'll actually solve these sorts of environmental problems, but that's going to happen regardless.

Interestingly enough, a lot of the engineering work for mining hydrothermal vents might have some interesting cross-applications for asteroid mining once we're outside of the gravity well.
I know; I'm saying that the website arguably falls under the education-part of fair use.
Expatriates choosing to leave the U.S. rather than pay taxes
Sort of an aside, but Radiolab recently had an episode about the relatively new class of giant "as big as bacteria" viruses. This appears to be one of those. I found the episode fascinating.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/shrink/
Since you mentioned having experience with Ruby, have you looked at Crystal as a statically-typed alternative with a deliberate Ruby influence? From what I've seen of it so far it may fit your purpose precisely.
how do you know people will buy what you want to make?
I've tried it, the main problem I have withe it is that the whole DB has to be loaded into memory. It seems like it would be slow and unwieldy with even a moderate sized database. I'm still keeping it open as an option, but I like that Lovefield uses indexedb under the sheets.
Great point. I group VTI, VTSAX, and VTSMX all together in my head; with Vanguard the differences between Vanguard branded ETFs and MFs aren't really that noticeable if you're just buying and holding. Thanks for clarifying my suggestion, though!
Like, I'm sure, many other people, I occasionally think about going off to live in a cabin in the wilderness for a while. It's nice that other people are doing it and writing about it, so I don't have to.
This is a well-studied phenomenon of mental institutions: staff are acclimated to everyone in their presence being mentally ill and denying it. Consequently, they aren't exactly vigilant about finding exceptions. "The patient is lying and having delusions of grandeur" is probably an accurate assessment 99.999% of the time, so they are unlikely to doubt that assessment when the patient is in fact a researcher/journalist investigating the hospital.
Stuff you can install: Hakyll, Gitit, Git-annex, Propellor, Pugs.

Haskell is an enterprise language, not an application language. The benefits of Haskell have played out better there.
This is my favorite post on desugaring Haskell syntax: http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/10/how-to-desugar-haskell-...
It took 130 years for Marxism to just hit the point of making "noise"? Come on now.
I always wonder where people get these numbers. From what I understand, census bureaus, etc, still only say there are 7.3 billion people on Earth. Where are you getting the other 700,000,000?
Since we have ~2% Neanderthal DNA, I don't think you can say they're quite extinct.
I found this to be a strangely disjointed, self-conscious piece that struck an uncomfortable chord with me.

I think everyone has a wild savage living somewhere in the back of their head, telling them that they don't belong in modern society, and that life would be so much nicer out in the wilderness.

It's awesome that the author embraced this voice and actually acted on it. At the same time, her writing provides no greater insight than that of a tourist on vacation. She describes a couple cool events and the day-to-day boredom/routine, but she never really commits to the lifestyle of the authors she idolizes. It's as if she knows she's just doing this for a little while so that she can write a meta piece about living in a cabin in Alaska.

Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman - they are literary giants because they truly lived an experience, to the point of cultivating and inscribing beautiful insights about their experiences. Transcendentalism is about living in the moment, being one with nature, feeling every gentle gust and hearing every gurgle and lap of the stream. It's extremely self-conscious, but not in the modern way of - oh shit, I need to think about all of this stuff and write it in a way that other people will like. It is a celebration of the senses without paying lip service to what others might think.

I respect the author for following Emerson's advice to "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string," I just wish she had delved a bit deeper. Hope to see more pieces from her in the future.
I don't know about you, but to me my life has infinite value, I only have one after all.
Would you even be allowed to? Who knows what the legal status will be for 'revived' persons that far into the future, or what return the company thawing you out will expect for their half millennium of investment in energy, maintenance and skills?

Your brain might contain nothing of value to that society, except as a store of archaic knowledge, or maybe as a substrate for computing. They may never even bother reviving someone as a conscious, self-aware being, or if they do, it may be for a zoo or a lifetime of slavery for the machines which I assume for no particular reason will have taken over.
All of these are valid factors but when total trip time door-to-door is less than or equivalent to getting your car, driving (including traffic) and finding parking then the benefits are clear.

Similarly with total annual cost of transport. Parking and fuel can come at an high premium sometimes.

Notice - you see this happening a lot in big cities where congestion is best result by public transport.
English poetry alters word choice and order in order fit the pronunciation into patterns of rhythm and rhyme, and to convey emotion by putting certain words together or apart. It is nearly ungrammatical, or you could say that each poem has its own nonstandard grammar.

Here is what it means:

On that morning there were two essentially similar paths, not walked on so much-- none of the fallen leaves were crushed into dirt. I decided to leave the first path, and walk on it another day. Yet knowing how one path leads on to another, I doubted that I would ever return to this place and have a chance (to walk on that first path)
Interesting read. Remember that Thoreau actually didn't write Walden in a deep isolated wilderness; rather, he lived in a cabin at the far edge of Concord, MA. There's even an entire section in Walden about receiving visitors, and another one about the trips to town he takes a few times a week. So living totally isolated 7 miles from the nearest town (which she makes sound more like a "highway rest stop" than a "town") goes beyond what Thoreau did.

I point this out because there's solitude, and then there's isolation. In my mind, there's only terror in one of those.
If you want to compare induction loops against power and data charges then you need to magically make your induction loops capable of giving turn-by-turn navigation without a device in the car.
Do you have anything to back this up?

- Google stopped using book scans for reCAPTCHA, because it stopped preventing spam

- How can you claim Google's maps product hasn't improved the world? That's a bold statement. I have a data point: It was used quite a bit during katrina and fukashima.

- The training data that's now being used for ML is helping the world of image and audio recognition immensely. They do publish a lot of this stuff, ya know: https://research.google.com/
If you put a bunch of humans (children) together, each with no previous knowledge of language, on an isolated island, they will in all likelihood come up with one. (Something close to this, as a live example, is a documented case I remember having read years ago of an all-new sign-language that emerged spontaneously among a large group neglected deaf-mute children at an institution a few decades ago. I think this was in Nicaragua or some other country in that region)
What I mean is, our linguistic ability isn't dependent on culture (though tremendously enriched by it), it's biological.
Why wouldn't the same hold for dolphins. I think they're very smart, but I don't believe they ever had something we could decently call a language.
Performance engg. of software systems
Has the author read Walden? If she had, she might find it incongruous to use cellular internet service and wi-fi during her adventure. She might also recognize that Thoreau was not so short on things to do, partly because he did things. He designed and built his cabin himself, rather than buying one ready-made. Maybe it's the difference between then and now, but if the dream was to live life raw, why not start with raw materials, and without a smartphone? Days don't seem so long when you are struggling to survive rather than to fill them with alarm clocks and books about people you want to emulate, but only sort of.
Spent some time browsing around the demo. Sorry to be critical. This doesn't seem to be a web app that anyone in their right mind would want to use.

It's all fun and games until your DB administrator gives you an Envelope built app that you have to use every day.
Bram has written a post (link: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/4563.html) about what in his view separates great programmers from others (spoiler: it is the ability to come up with good architectural decisions). But then, his codeville project went nowhere so take it with the grain of salt ;)
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Seriously... How this the top comment? It's full of hyperbole and straight up misrepresentation of facts.
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We already and always live at the limits. Innovation is pushing those limits further everyday. For example, Internet solved lots of limits related to physical locations, distances, and land areas, electric cars and sustained energy production will solve limited oil supplies, space exploration and asteroid mining will solve limited resources of other materials (if they aren't made irrelevant before that by other innovations). Etc..
This looks cool, but if I'm already going to write the HTML and the SQL I'll just write the app. I already have a framework and method to do that anyway and I don't have to learn a new system or be locked to some way of doing things that may prevent customization and expansion.

Not to bag on the effort though. This may come in handy for someone.
Perhaps exact figures were not the point of the comment.
How often do you commute your way to work? Driving has its risks. Now weight this risk against your salary. A cynical calculation may find that your own acts value your life at a few million dollars, maybe even a few dozen millions.
Yes: type "gui"
Crystal does indeed look interesting and promising. But it will be a few years until I'm willing to consider it for production code, I think.
Language is a strange and large territory. And, almost by definition, any social animal must be able to communicate with each other; And, in order to communicate, there must be shared formal rules. In essence: syntax.
You're not the only one, plenty of others agree:

http://x86asm.net/articles/what-i-dislike-about-gas/

But another thing I can say from experience is that GDB Asm-level debugging seems to be more of an afterthought and everything doesn't make as much sense as e.g. OllyDbg or even the old MS-DOS DEBUG. The behaviour of some commands like "disassemble" is perplexing at best[1]. It was really meant for use with higher-level languages.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1237489/how-can-i-force-g...