skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parens turn out to be an asset, not a drawback to the language. Allowing macros. Tooling like lispy/paredit takes advantage of the parens too.
I think it was for demonstration. The example certainly is a bit contrived but the general idea is that pattern matching in function heads is preferred over pattern matching in case expressions by most experienced Erlang developers I know and certainly by the author.

It's not a hard rule but there are definitely times when giving a name to a set of patters is better than the anonymous case. Some other languages use things like let-in and with to achieve similar ideas but Erlang is a rather simple language so it just reuses function heads instead of nesting definitions.
And then you can create new docker containers running minecraft servers...
You are serious - wow! Is there a reason they left out $1-5 worth of a basic case for it? 121MM, good times lmao
I always find it surprising how many academics at prestigious institutions manage to get away with professing such obviously risible ideas. There is no meaningful analogy to be drawn between the sack of the city of Rome and Western civilization's current conflict with Islamic extremism. The imbalance of power, resources, and organization between the West and Daesh is not remotely comparable.

Concerns about the import of ideology along with refugees might be legitimate, but comparing the downfall of modern Western civilization to the sack of a single city, Rome, is just ridiculous.
Some of us have ethical issues with Google, and prefer not to give them traffic.
My dad talked by out of my 11c by buying me a 35s.
Easy solution, randomise batch release between 0.9 and 1.5 seconds rather than an absolute time.
Thanks, I'll have to experiment with that. I drink plenty of coffee and sleep about 7 hours.
Disk Locality in Datacenter Computing Considered Irrelevant (2011) [pdf]
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This became a bad habit for me too, and there are limits to how fast I can make things. My solution was to install an app (Focusapp in my case) that blocks distracting websites. And I mean blocks them hard - reboot won't stop it. And it's on a schedule, so it blocks from 7am-5pm, every day.

It sounds a little heavy handed, but it made a huge difference.
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Keep in mind the TX1 is just an early version trying to encourage adoption. The same chip is shipping in $200 tablets, so obviously the cpu can be pretty cheap.

Seems well within the cost of say your average pro/enthusiast level quad rotor if it could enable dynamic path finding, obstacle avoidance, and following a target.

Current systems can't for instance follow a bicyclist through a forest without hitting bushes/trees.

Current systems can't fly indoor automatically and avoid furniture, people, walls, etc.

The justification for a chip like the X1 is that it has enough CPU/GPU power for realtime vision type applications.
I really like this. A goal of a stockmarket should (among other things) be to create a level playing field for investor. This would really help this and offer no negative incentive to a true investor.
lxd has relevance because it's the same kind of thing as Docker.

> They are not jails, they are not like jails.

That's what I've been saying.
I'm in a similar situation. Diagnosed with colon cancer at 34 with a 3 year at home and my wife still pregnant with our second one. I ended up switching jobs after my surgery and know that things could flare up again. I didn't bring it up during my interviews since it wasn't something I felt I needed to mention. The focus of the interview is your skills and how well you'd fit in with the team. As someone already said, things happen to employees whether they've been at the job for 10 years or 10 months. Employers know that.
I was hoping to see more specific criticism from someone claiming to be an expert in 5th century Rome.

But all I see is a left-wing professor unhappy with insufficient PC-ness of someone's argument (too Western-centric, not afraid to use the 'us-them' language, etc).

His one real point is that the Rome collapsed because of partly internal and partly external factors. That's certainly true - but it was the barbarians who ultimately sacked Rome and not a civil war that did them in.
Those, I agree, are legitimate concerns worth discussing. But 'bpodgursky is right that it's harder to discuss those when people are mostly vocal about some invented fear-inducing non-issues. This also holds for discussions about nuclear power.

About your concerns - it's worth noting that they're political/economical in nature and have nothing to do with genetic modifications itself. I agree with most of them, but personally believe that it's not enough to shut down the entire branch of science, as some of the opponents seem to want. But those issues definitely need to be addressed.
> Elixir has also done a good job of translating it for people who like Ruby-style syntax, I prefer the flexibility of the more verbose Erlang.

The really big deal about Elixir is the ability to do LISP-style runtime code execution and generation. Lots of the Elixir language is implemented as macros, and the beauty and power of it is evident when studying the source of Elixir itself and Phoenix. A good example of where this comes into play is implementing a gen_server: in Erlang, this is always a good bit of boilerplate. In Elixir it can be done with a couple of lines, with automatic default implementations provided.

The Elixir syntax is a nice bonus, but the runtime code-generation Elixir brings to the table is a game-changer that takes it to the next level.
not quite ANY. doesn't work for "bosnia"
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Terrorism really lives up to its name, it scares people and makes them act irrationaly to prevent it at all costs. I blame the media and politicians for focusing so much on it. Media act like vultures - the amount of time and specials they dedicate to massacres disgusts me. Many politicians seem to pass any law that might reduce terrorism, without analysing its costs.

To clarify, I obviously feel sad for the victims of these massacres. But it we keep trying to prevent them by neglecting every other human basic right, we'll harm our whole society.
"Period of disuse" may mean hundreds of years when people die of simple cuts and there's no point of even having a hospital. Biology has a lot of intertia.
I noticed that I have an HP 12-C along with the spiral bound instruction book.
I always wonder if people don't understand the massive disparity between the economic and military power of first-world countries and organizations like ISIS, or if they do understand but still somehow think it makes sense to compare it with Rome or be paranoid that they're going to conquer Europe or whatever.
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I do a variation of this. Ten minute timers, instead of 25, and then I make sure that whatever task I set for myself is something I can do in 10 minutes. For programming tasks this is often "Finish writing method foo", or "Debug the problem with method bar".
I think it is a good balance. Cops do not want to let bad guys off the hook, so knowing that if they improperly collect evidence it will do so aligns the incentives well.
Those are really good papers & I highly recommend them. A couple of things I've always wondered about them:

- their proposal seems to require either coordinated legal regimes & consistent global clocks or a monopoly exchange, both of which on the surface seem impossible.

- their matching algorithm both still has a time priority component as well as a random or pro rata component, which is problematic.

- finally, the main complaint seems to be with the profitability of the arb not decreasing, but isn't that a direct function of the legislated price floor imposed on the markets?
When you do physics you're basically trying to test one interaction and you might have a half-dozen other interactions that you have to contend with. And even then, it's really hard! NASA is continuing to investigate the EM drive on the tiny, tiny chance that it's real, but mostly to see what these folks got wrong.

In biology you don't have a half-dozen other interactions to contend with, you've got probably on the order of millions. How many organic molecules are there? Do you know? I sure don't and I spent a couple of years doing computational genomics. The best we could do is spend thousands of processor hours trying to understand how the genome affects things, much less the transcriptome or proteome. If you want to suggest that "oh, GMO is fine because biology isn't THAT HARD" then I would implore you to go revolutionize biology because everyone I talked to said it was very, very hard.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteome
Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
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After watching the 3 Kingdoms series, one thing that strikes me is that these board games probably had huge significance back then as compared to today. Empires were made or broken based on effective military strategies. Those who could strategize on the board would win in the field.
Were I Microsoft, I'd immediately containerize a Minecraft server.
#PrayForParis: When Empathy Becomes a Meme
Hardball Questions for the Next Debate
It's hard to find joy in this, but these cases are very important to protecting our freedoms, more important than someone who was falsely accused and is easy to relate to. Forcing the government to let someone go even though they know that person wishes to do harm to the country is the ultimate test of the checks and balances that keep our country in line.

These agencies need to know there is someone watching over them. They need to know there are limits. And, god forbid, the worst happens and he commits a crime after he is released, these agencies need to know that the blood is on their hands, because they royally fucked up.

If you want to convict someone and have it stick, it has to be done by the books. In this case, the FBI is the real threat to the American people.
> Doesn't seem very erlangy. I'd expect a runtime error, as someone's passed foo() the wrong value.

It depends.

Sometimes you want to crash when handed an unexpected value.

Sometimes you expect that you'll be handed unexpected values and need to either fail more gracefully, print a warning and then fail, or warn and keep going, or whatever.

Erlang gives you a bunch of tools, and they all have their place. [0] :)

[0] With the possible exception of the if statement... which is of questionable utility.
Well they're equivalent insofar as they used methods outside traditional breeding in order to achieve their goals; namely "artificial" sequence editing. Will all the modifications have the same potential for harm? It's an open question.

We do know that humans do pretty well on things that have been bred using ancient techniques. Might modern techniques do a better job? Absolutely yes. Might these modern techniques also introduce problems? You can't really rule it out.

I'm not suggesting that all GMO are evil and that they should be banned, destroyed, etc. But what I am suggesting is that when the rate of change we can achieve gets much, much faster than using traditional techniques it's entirely possible that we could do something bad that would take generations to shake out.

Presuming that we "know" something after a couple of years when it has to do with biology, especially when you're talking about humans, is pretty dicey.

Soylent seems to be OK for humans so far, but if all you eat/drink is soylent for a decade you might find out that it's got too much of something, or not enough of something else. It's entirely premature to proclaim soylent 100% safe, that'll take a couple of generations. I feel the same way about organisms that have had their breeding sped up significantly. Not definitely bad, but I'd prefer not to be the guinea pig myself.
Well, the same would apply to pretty much any non-enterprise software then. Who's gonna read an EULA to run a program? Who's gonna pay for software, later find the EULA is abusive and stop using their paid product/service?

It's a laughing joke. No one reads them, no one expects them to be read, and still they're everywhere.
Very senior people are best used sparingly. Put too many of them on a real project and pit them against each other (as the old MSFT performance review process tended to do), and they start beating their chest and trying to backstab the other people they're competing with. OTOH if you put them in research and tell them how super important their project is and how it's advancing the state of the art and stuff, and you might get a few years of reprieve.
"He essentially defines an act as "good" if it's a net increase in human happiness and well-being."

John Rawls, one of the foremost liberal philosophers of our time spends the bulk of his most famous book arguing agains that very idea. My take away is that from a secular perspective it is impossible to argue from first principles what is good and bad. It's also obviously not a very strong argument. If there was a tiny country that did dispicable things to it's citizens but it had nuclear weapons, by this argument, the 'good' thing would be to allow those citizens to continue to suffer rather then have the world intervene and potentially be obliterated in a nuclear war. However, the citizen's of that country would still be correct to say that the rest of the world was unjust.
I guess but a) backwards compatibility probably comes in to play b) can you imagine the level of bikeshedding
Besides IRC, I recall using chat interfaces that were created as features on top of an app with an entirely different purpose, but ended up being widely used for social chat anyway.

WestWood Chat - originally intended for organizing C&C: Red Alert multiplayer games

DC++ - filesharing
wrap this (`ruby vicilog.rb`) to a single command maybe?
Unrelated: Is there a plugin syncing speaker deck and the video? Or something custom?
My favorite line:

> Some of my fellow historians have asked the obvious question why Ferguson fixates on the fifth century, when the seventh century in the East, which saw the rise of Islam, might present more obvious food for thought. Perhaps Ferguson knows even less about that.

As the author notes, Niall Ferguson chose his Roman comparison to evoke fear of a fall from greatness, not because it is an insightful comparison. The rise of ISIS and its war with Al-Assad's Syria and Iraq should be seen in the context of an emerging revolutionary state like the Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Cambodian, and Iranian revolutions. The refugees are just like those that are typically cast out during the rise of a revolutionary state.

We get much more nuanced comparisons of ISIS and the refugee influx in this context. Here is a great set of such comparisons: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/isis-rev...

> In his ‘General considerations on the decline of the empire in the west’ that concluded volume 3 of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon made this European dimension explicit by considering how a similar chain of events might impact on the Europe of his own day.

The best vaccine against alarmist predictions is looking at the previously incorrect alarmist predictions from the same source. This review is like @pessimistsarc on Twitter, except for angsty pundit-historians. Very gratifying.
You're too late.

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
Well,

1) "Ye cannae change the laws of physics". We're pretty sure that there isn't any molecule that you can flip around to have unicorns start popping out of thin air[0]. We have some bounds on the amount of damage one can do.

2) Yes, biology is messy and complicated. It's also extremely important that we master it. So there's little choice but to push forward.

[0] - well, unless it's a molecule your VCs know how to monetize.
There was an article on HN a few days ago that put the financing of ISIS into perspective. The US spends more on a typical large bridge than ISIS would earn over the course of several years at their peak income. Comparing this to, say, the GDP of the United States alone, or even the US military budget, it's easy for even a layman to see how silly this professor's argument is.
It's nice to be able to run go and vim on my phone when I want to.
There is more detail description and photo of games pieces recovered from other tombs in the Chinese Wiki: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E5%8D%9A
Funny thing, I read this right after reading an article about 'microcomplaints' on HN. Kind of validated the previous one.
Exporting Cron Jobs in EasyCron
In Wake of Paris, FCC Seeks Power to Monitor, Shutter Websites

"Citing possible links between terror-related websites and online communications and Friday’s attacks on Paris, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler suggested Tuesday Congress give the agency more authority to use ‘big data’ to monitor and act on potential threats."

http://www.insidesources.com/in-wake-of-paris-fcc-seeks-powe...

This will be pushed into the narrative & they will have their way.
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In my experience, recruiters offer more than the company is willing to offer. My final step in your plan would be to drop the values by 10 to 20 percent or so.
I like the construction of these calculators, but I'm not a huge fan of the programming language. I think the Casio FX-4000P / RS EC-4020 was the pinnacle, but this was a few years later (and admittedly, not as numerically good as the HP). Editing was far easier with the dot-matrix display. Compare the programs:

http://www.rskey.org/CMS/8-programmable-calculators/299-fx40...

http://www.rskey.org/hp15c

Casio improved the fx4000p, but I think the design was not as coherent: http://www.rskey.org/fx4500p
That is awful. Are there people who enjoy working in places like this?
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I have tried to take his work seriously. At first glance it looks like it should be thorough and center-right -- not a bad way to read history when read along-side differing accounts. However, he can't help himself from reducing his voluminous work to strangely simple political jabs. Maybe if he stuck to long-form topics from long-ago periods he could keep his credibility.
>What I have said above only scratches the surface.

keep going.

be aware the analytical & technically savy are also considered threats to the establishment: "NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance"

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extrem...
There are several modpack launchers available now (Tekkit, FTB, ATLauncher, etc...), but mod authors get butthurt when you don't visit their ad infested download links and there is infighting between the different groups.

Minecraft's mod scene is a mess. Whatever Mojang's efforts were to make the game mod friendly have never seen the light of day. It's really sad because mod authors have done some really amazing stuff with the engine, but because every update breaks everything its too hard to keep most of the running for more than a version or two.
I can't believe so much is written about 350 usec in delay. I mean, that must be the least controversial change you would ever make.

If someone wants to make an exchange with static added latency, that's not the same as making everyone's latency the same, which the article conflates. The change is nearly pointless, and they argue it to death.

There are much more interesting things going on with exchanges than this.
If you read carefully you will notice noone in HFT is ever offered a chance to speak about the issues. That is extremely telling.

There are 2 major forces in the markets, on one side are market neutral participants that are not taking a position long term. For the most part they are market makers selling liquidity.

On the other are large block traders, largely hedge funds who want to take advantage of that liquidity at the cheapest price.

Those 2 groups are naturally hostile to each other. Flash Boys presents, potentially in bad faith, only 1 side of that equation.

For instance, that you think the profits in HFT rival those generated by the hedge funds that back IEX is very telling. They are orders of magnitude different & are dominated by the hedge funds. That money also comes out of the pockets of investors.

That you don't mind it being inaccurate in its central thesis is problematic for those it paints negatively, but exactly what those on the other side want.
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For those looking for more concrete information about Roman history, a classics professor I know has written a really in-depth two part series about immigration in the Roman Empire over at a new online classics journal called Eidolon:

https://eidolon.pub/barbarians-inside-the-gate-part-ii-c22c5...

Granted, he's writing about Republican Rome so it doesn't directly relate to the 5th century, but it deals with similar themes in a thoughtful way.

And I agree that it would be better for everyone if we collectively just ignored the 2015 incarnation of Niall Ferguson, but unfortunately being a tenured professor at Harvard (and now Stanford) gives you quite the bully pulpit! His first book is actually good, but it's been a downhill slide into largely fact-less political assertions and nasty ad hominem attacks since then...
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I agree on the importance of the rule of law in criminal investigations. I just wanted to point out, from a bird's eye perspective, the silliness of this situation. Because of the rigid insistence on legal standing, the only way to curtail the FAA on this issue is to release a person who has displayed a tendency for mass violence.

It would seem that there should be a better way to organize our legal system so society isn't faced with dilemmas of this sort.
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you know what's a coincidence though: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-17/hours-befo...

drills as mass attacks are happening - be it 9/11 , Sandy Hook, London Bombing or others

+ factor in: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/serbian-police-...

The passport of a "suicide bomber" escaped the bomb blast and landed into the hands of autorities (conviniently) -- but now Serbian police have proven it to be a fraudulent passport...so how did it get there?
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I'm not really trying to say anything about the quality of these products at launch compared to competitors. The parent post made a claim that since there was already a lot of innovative products available Google can't do anything special by launching similar applications. I say that's completely off base when you look at the product that made Google one of the largest tech companies in the world fits exactly into this category. It was not doing anything fundamentally different from other search engines at the time. It just did in a much better way, so much so that people overwhelmingly switched; and they were able to make way more money of these users as well.
Possibly, but you must bear in mind how rapidly bacteria reproduce and evolve. I'm not well enough informed to say exactly how long it would take, but I very much doubt it would be hundreds of years. (And people wouldn't necessarily die of simple cuts regardless -- we still have our immune systems and other means of sterilizing wounds.)
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gstreamer is also available in C, C++( My main languages). If other people have interest and you decide to go over with your idea, I will be glad to contribute.
Niall Ferguson's pseudo-scholarship ignores the fact that Karl Popper's entire career was based on debunking the myth of historicism Gibbon and Spengler espoused. Today nobody takes the latter two seriously, while Popper is still standing tall.
Buying and selling don't contribute to market instability.