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The thing about Lisp-like languages is that they have some superficial similarities which get them lumped together, because programmers expect to be able to classify programming languages based on superficial similarities. If it has symbols encased in parentheses, it's some kind of Lisp (even if the authors don't use that word in the name).

They are not all the same any more than languages which have braces for block structure and f(x, y) function calls are the same!

Languages which have a complicated surface syntax tend to distinguish themselves sharply on that syntax. Thus we can regard PL/I, Pascal, C, Ada, Rust, Go and Java to be semantic offshoots of the Algol family: new dialects of Algol.

If you invent a new dialect of Algol with new keywords and new syntactic gadgets for declaring, calling, throwing, catching, structuring, flowing, and so on --- old semantics with a new skin --- nobody accuses you of making just a dialect of Algol.

If you make a new language with S-expressions for its syntax, but new semantics under the hood, it is "just another Lisp" that some university kids can throw together in an afternoon.

Syntax is semantics is the popular view; you can't possibly have new semantics if you don't look different. And the presence of some old semantics exhibited in a few examples of course confirms that you don't have new semantics. Hey look, functions look the same, and there is let and lambda. Same old junk!
is PySide2 also getting that new system?
OpenBSD uses it from the beginning. The portable Version should have some testing on it as well. Yes, it's production ready. as always YMMV.
Actually, it is more than an assertion. It has a premise, an assertion, and a deduction, each of which can be supported or refuted. You apparently chose neither, as if my statement carries less weight than yours, and your disparaging remark is enough to change my opinion.

Why do you think my post is worth less than yours? Perhaps you are more unwilling than me to hear opposing views?
It doesn't matter what they've claimed they didn't had the authority to claim that in the 1st place.

Now this doesn't say that common sense should not have been used and that the ICAO should not have released a direction to not fly over that area as it was an active war zone but that doesn't makes this any less of a crime.

Accidents still happen but shooting down an airliner even in accident (which happened before) is still something that should be investigated, even for something as simple as compensation, and if this was not only in accident but also in either malice or negligence then there are sufficient grounds for criminal proceedings.
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I think you're giving the BBC's stance on being apolitical a bit too much credence. You only have to study the BBC's coverage of the Scottish Independence Referendum, the Westminster General Election ('15) in Scotland and, well, pretty much everything else from it's news output about Scottish politics.

This is a broadcaster that operates in "defence of the realm" mode with regards to SNP/pro-independence politics and news.

For reference and for example:

http://newsnet.scot/?p=115314

http://wingsoverscotland.com/we-need-to-talk-about-bbc-scotl...

http://wingsoverscotland.com/watch-closely-students/

http://wingsoverscotland.com/out-in-the-open/

Prof. John Robertson carried out an academic study on news output from BBC Scotland. The BBC tried to have him fired:

http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2014/06/30/i-was-bullied-bbc-...

I used to be staunchly proud of the BBC until I started to pay more attention to its coverage of Scottish politics in more detail, around 2005/6, and then realised that there was something amiss inside Pacific Quay (BBC's Scotland HQ).
In reasonable jurisdictions, truth is a complete defense against libel. That would include truthful reporting of arrest records, charges, convictions, imprisonment, etc. And with dates attached, those facts don't suddenly become incorrect in the future; the record existed as of one date, and the government expunged it on another date, both of which remain factual information.
Hyperactive black boys were taken to prison instead, I suspect.
Nice job on the viewer. It would be cool to be able to toggle between (or have an overlay of) Ordnance Survey (or similar) data on known archeological features, and a google style aerial view.

Couple this with he ability to post and discuss interesting features, it could enable the "crowd-sourcing" of topological archeology.
Its meaningless because no one has official corporate goals of becoming less streamlined, or less nimble, or a less clear roadmap.

Content free filler might be a more polite way to put it.

I could demonstrate the uselessness of content free filler by inserting (VLM took a breath here) (VLM fixed a typo here) all through my post above, but all it would do it boost word count and water down the core message, kinda like .... yeah.

There is another story on the front page at this moment about training a neural network to generate clickbait... I'd like to see a trained NN that eats CorporateSpeak and outputs English. It smells simple; at least at a low performance level it just has to pattern match and eat "content free filler" or whatever you want to call it.
"If I were misusing a word."

Just trying to help ;-)
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> "Does anyone, even here on HN, think that it is really absurd to make these comparisons? Comparing Facebook with an advanced technology? Come on."

It is a bizarre comparison, but the author appears to be using it as a colloquial way to describe a runaway success, which makes sense even if the industries are not directly related.

From the limited knowledge I have on nanotech, I'd suggest the closest it's come to a runaway success so far has been in superhydrophobic coatings. If a food-safe and long-lasting superhydrophobic coating was discovered, I could imagine the market would be huge. Consider plates/bowls/cutlery that you'd never/rarely need to wash up, that could take off massively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhydrophobic_coating
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You've probably used it without knowing. It's not typically useful in application code but quite useful in libraries.

The ABC module, collections, frozenset. Basically anywhere we add custom types or generate new classes to instantiate.
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Any company that has yet to operate on a consistent business model is still a start up :-). But in twitter's case that is stretching it. Both ad funded and public I'd say they are a 'small cap company' rather than a startup.

That said, it's clear they are struggling to stay alive and that is a trait of many start ups.
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Nice to know! I've never stayed at an airport, only adjacent to. I guess I'm staying at the wrong places.
I'm 4/5, meaning that of the five projects I've backed, four delivered what they promised and one turned out to be, if not a total scam, at least a project where the creators lied about how far along they were in prototyping and currently haven't posted a project update in almost three months -- I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that their intentions were good, but they quickly got over their heads so they took the money and ran. (Here's that project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wicoz/milk-nanny-the-wo... )

I was very frustrated by the degree to which Kickstarter would take any responsibility after the project clearly started going south. Even though this project was a "Staff Pick!!", implying, to me at least, a higher quality project than normal, they didn't seem to have any interest in holding the creators to account. After they wouldn't refund my money, I did a chargeback through my bank. I then got a message from "Kickstarter Integrity" scolding me and telling me they were blocking my account from pledging for 30 days and telling me to tell my bank to cancel the chargeback! These guys take the money and run, and my integrity is challenged! It was pretty friggin' insulting.

The experience might not have turned me off of Kickstarter forever, but I will definitely be more cautious before throwing my money at any other project on the site. It would be great to see a KS alternative which is willing to hold vendors more responsible.
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There is the fact that proteins are constrained to function as part of organisms that are capable of self-replication. This constraint means that proteins (mostly) are not very stable wrt oxidisation and UV degradation, and only work properly in aqueous solution.

It's anyone's guess how significant these constraints will be from the viewpoint of developing artificial protein machines (maybe rapid (bio)degradation is a good thing!), but there's definitely large swathes of chemical design space outside of arbitrary chains of known amino acids, and we might be able to discover entire classes of molecular machines that don't have the drawbacks of bioinspired proteins.
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The report did not go into finding out who did it. Both sides own BUKs. It is very difficult to find the truth because all sides are pumping out propaganda. Even the United States is manipulating what we hear for their own political and economic gains.

Here an subtle but strong example : http://www.sott.net/article/302911-Sott-Exclusive-Full-unedi...
@saaaam, As a tech leader working in the publishing industry, I'd be interested in connecting with you to hear more about what you work on. My email is my username @lp0.org. Maybe there are opportunities for us to collaborate!
I'm fascinated with the idea of simulating geological processes, particularly volcanism and glaciation - probably because I live in Edinburgh!
The alternatives have no base, no brand and aren't as universally accessible (regardless of blockages). The world needs Twitter because Twitter is the most efficient way of reaching a large audience quickly NOW. Regardless of what the future holds, or "what-if" scenarios the reality remains that Twitter holds a place as the world's voice in certain situations.
Most people I have spoken to are using NoSQL on single nodes.
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This kind of material might fall within the domain of the Google Books Library Project. This would mean very little cost (if any) to the libraries themselves.
If they're not Postgres experts then they shouldn't be including Postgres in the line-up. Or ask someone that ask someone that knows better.
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It brings “a very passionate audience of millennial males into our roster,” he said.

Oof.
They wanted to play with the other kids, but no one invited them, so they threw their own party despite not knowing how to throw one.

Biggest problem of (small) German tech companies IMO.

I worked for one myself and they had really good core technology, but that was it. The angelo-saxon companies always outplayed them, because they're just so much better at PR. Even their developers are better at this than most marketeers that burn money on a daily basis in Germany...
They do! http://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard_II

It'd be neat to see an update, but it's not going to happen. Mechanical keyboards are a niche product.
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mirror:

https://google.com/search?q=cache:https://www.newscientist.c...
I completely agree that people don't need to know all the nuances of something to get some value out of it, in the general case. I read your response to api as suggesting people held a more nuanced view than I think they actually do. My mistake.

More importantly:

> reasonably nuanced philosophical perspectives are by no means incompatible with belief in supernatural evil...

There are a lot of ways to take this, so just to be clear, are you saying that you believe an all-loving and omnipotent god created a willful being of pure evil?
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Of course, the most common outcome is Neither Rich Nor King.
In this particular example, whats important is keeping the character count under 140, so your proposal wins 1 point. (insert golf clap). I will see your "Hey", and counter propose "Yo". That frees up two characters for use elsewhere vs the original "Team".
Haha no I didn't. I just tried to think up an example of something phonetically similar but innocent, but there you go. Bad for Ralphs I guess.

We've got an old idiom that subtitutes vomiting for "going to Riga" (the Latvian capital). Not really aimed against Latvians, it just plays on certain phonetic similarity of Ryga and "rzygać" (to puke). Different languages, same bag of tricks.
I'm afraid I didn't quite follow you there. Is one of those things using non-square pixels?
tl;dr version - it's mostly about the portability, shortcomings of Windows as OS, and accompanying software (VS, TFS, IIS, MSSQL etc) being bloated. Zero critics about the .NET framework itself.
With layoffs by Twitter and Snapchat going on as well, this article seems worth discussing about.

Signs detailed in the article:

1. IPO market is screeching to a halt.

2. Tourists are taking the bus out of Silicon Valley. (Tourists --> mutual funds, hedge funds, other institutions that are not experts in helping grow tech startups.)

3. Money-losing startups are over-valued.

4. Private companies are aggressively sweetening the pot to attract fresh capital.
While I largely agree with you, I have to take issue with a couple of you points.

> outperform simply giving a child a 10-minute pencil-and-paper IQ test (and highly unlikely that scans will ever be cheaper or easier than a regular IQ test).

For children the test takes, "48–65 minutes to administer" and requires more than pencil-and-paper [1].

> There is no reason whatsoever to do this.

More importantly, I think doing a regular comparison of the standard IQ test results with this new scanning method could be a good way to account for test bias [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Intelligence_Scale_fo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Test_bia...
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It's moot. Veterans know there's another round coming no matter what, and tenderfeet will freak out no matter what.

Since this is their first round, it probably consists of an accumulated RIF list that's been made up mentally over time by each manager, containing the slackers, bums, obnoxious misfits, and anyone absurdly overpaid, as well as people who have made powerful enemies. It probably also contains people who were working on canceled projects and weren't valuable enough that another manager would fight to have them transferred instead (some may be rehired by others later anyway). Standard stuff. And as such, since Twitter hasn't come to Jesus at this point, it's a pretty small round. Later, when it becomes apparent that more of what they're doing is a drain on their very limited revenue with little or no realistic hope of any return on investment, there will be more rounds as more projects are canceled. Of course, by then, they'll have less cash available and so will need to cut even more...

Every company in a downward spiral starts by cutting fat, then muscle, and finally bone. You're correct that it's much better to cut too deep the first time and stabilize the company financially at a much smaller size before cautiously expanding, but no one does it that way. Remember, to a manager, the size of one's empire is the size of one's dick (not to mention current and future pay), and to a CEO it's the same with the size of the company. No one wants to cut more than the minimum that can possibly be justified at any given moment, which is why almost every company that cuts keeps cutting in a downward spiral until sale or bankruptcy... and thus why there's always another round, as every veteran knows.

Really nothing to see here at all.
any idea what is 336 as a percentage of their tech workforce?
Just think of UML as the C++ of diagrams: it is sometimes the best way to produce the result that you need but you have to choose a sane subset.
> It depends on language, in Japanese input methods a lot of emoji can be written exactly the same way you write rest words.

The SwiftKey keyboard on Android offers this feature. If you turn it on and type 'angry', for example, it offers both the word and the emoji as predictions.

It works pretty well for English, but I'm not sure how well it works for other languages SwiftKey supports.
How many employees does it have? I recall it's about 4000 or so, so this is like a 10% cut?

It's better to do a big axe once instead of slicing it gradually, will this be it?

Been there done that, and it sucks.
Yes, but Twitter deserves credit for creating something that didn't exist. It's global IRC for the masses. That and it brought the Internet real-time search. That's huge and did not exist before Twitter.
In actual production use, I think it could be better to write a separate program that will generate the code for you instead of using the C preprocessor (or use a language with this kind of introspection built in). However, using this hack lets you depend only on the facilities of the language, and that can be useful in simplifying the build process. Plus it was fun to create, too!
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Is Pitchfork still cool with hipsters?
I think it's tied to the rise of RESTful services. RESTful APIs lead to people getting used to thinking and working in stateless architectures, and it became the thing to do. If your API is stateless, why make the rest stateful? And stateful APIs can be... difficult to deal with, having to handle a lot more in your HTTP client than you do with a simple REST endpoint.

I also think open source has had an impact here. A lot of open source stuff is designed to have a simplistic architecture, since the users tend to be unwilling to start up 4 servers to run an application (whether it's a business that doesn't like the complexity, or a user who lacks the resources). That drives open source toward stateless services, and open source often defines what's "popular".
From the comments: "Why do people have to "leave" technologies? Why can't they just add new technologies to their arsenals without dramatic quitting blog posts? You don't see musicians who have just learned to play the guitar writing "why I'm leaving the piano" posts. Go is great; Node.js is great; some JVM languages are fine; .NET has a hell of a lot going for it too. Evaluate your options at the start of every project and use the best tool for the job at hand."
I always viewed Pitchfork as more of a Gen X thing... they were founded in the mid 90s.
The "validity of the ticket" is determined by rules set forth by the city and the MTA. It also establishes the grounds for invalidity of a ticket. That's not taking advantage of the system, that's applying the system. The right way for the MTA to put Fixed out of business is to issue valid tickets that are held to a higher degree of scrutiny, otherwise the system just rots over time, as we see here.
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I've been reading Pitchfork for around six years now. Even though it has its share of questionable reviews and scores, its always proven an excellent bellwether for new music and introduced me to most of my favorite albums. In the age of dozens of music blogs and streaming venues, there's something refreshingly simple about their five reviews a day format; I know they've been experimenting with other content approaches (like the late Dissolve), but Ryan seems to understand the core appeal of the site pretty well.

I hope they continue to put out good reviews of great music. As long as they do that, I'll be happy.
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It's being reported as 8% so pretty close.
Graphical representations are useful for representing spatial relationships because then you can take advantage of the inverse-GPU in the human visual cortex to do a lot of computation for you. But software doesn't have spatial relationships because it doesn't exist in space. So trying to represent software concepts graphically is generally doomed to fail. There are a few exceptions, like code indentation, but there's a reason that flowcharts aren't used much any more.
It could be like the Lumea from Philips where light energy is absorbed by the hair causing it to fall out. Note, the Lumea does not work on blonde hair, its working principle is based on absorption of energy by the pigment that also colors hair (like a black shirt getting hot in the sun).
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For those who aren't familiar, Pitchfork is basically _the_ hipster music magazine.

Source: I live in Brooklyn.

(This post made with tongue firmly in cheek, of course. By virtue of the fact that I know about it, it can't possibly be hipster enough.)
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IL-76 was shot a lot lower and not from BUK missile.

Until MH-17 there was no reason to believe separatists had any high altitude anti-aircraft weapons.
I think that does a great disservice to the article by not acknowledging the commentary about the availability of quality OSS and the poor quality of the community/culture
I don't have a problem with the concept behind Falcor and GraphQL. My problem is the execution and the fact that one has deal with yet another layer of complexity on top of everything else, which expose an ORM,RPC like framework on both side, and make things more difficult to cache. There has to be a better compromise to achieve the same goal.

EDIT: Or let's go full AMF again and use classes and objects defined on the server in the client... I fail to understand how Falcor and GraphQL are a better alternative to what already exists. Why limit it to queries then ? let me get my FactoryFactories right back in the client instead of yet another format, since REST is basically thrown out of the window anyway.
Perhaps a little exaggeration, agreed. The wavelengths you want are in the UV end of things, which I assumed would be mostly clumsy CO2 tubes. Just the concept of giving a consumer a high power laser they can't even see makes me extremely uncomfortable regardless of how plausible the rest of it is. Mistakes with that sort of thing are permanent, you don't get any second chances if you blast out your retina.
Some people use that form factor as footnotes or offhand comments.
The counterargument is that as more and more industries start to do their engineering at the nanoscale (whether coming from above, as in materials and electronics, or from below as in biochemistry and pharmaceuticals), the physics of their systems will become more similar. This will cause their design rules to also become more and more similar, so it's plausible that you could end up with a small number of players possessing engineering expertise that can be applied to a very wide variety of sectors.
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Author states "Using the Disruptor (a lock-free ring buffer on the JVM), you can easily process 20M+ events per second. On .NET using ordained "best practices" anything more than a dozen transactions per second is considered decent-to-good performance and at that point, you just need bigger/better/more hardware."

WTF? This is inane.
Maybe they have families and don't want to upset the status quo until it's absolutely necessary.
All of the things you listed are significantly more feasible than a laser shaver.
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