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I'd like to use Perl 6, but after 15 years of waiting there still isn't an implementation ready for production use.

Rakudo and MoarVM clearly aren't what we, as potential Perl 6 developers and users, want.

They look far too similar to the many other similar Perl 6 failures we've seen.

How are we to trust that Rakudo won't go the way of Pugs, or that MoarVM won't go the way of Parrot, leaving us in a lurch?

Even if they do remain viable, we don't want to have to deal with separate VMs, regardless of whether they're specific to Perl 6 or not.

We don't want to deal with the bugs and compatibility issues that invariably pop up when dealing with separate compilers and VMs.

Like I said, we want the Perl 5, Ruby, Python, Lua, and Tcl type of experience.

We want there to be one consistent implementation that's widely used and trusted.

We want something proven and familiar.

Unfortunately, we aren't getting that with Rakudo and MoarVM, nor from the many other unsuccessful attempts in the past.
Churchill was fighting the Nazis at the time and prioritized shipping to best defeat the enemy.
Perl5 historically has compiled to bytecode and then interpreted the bytecode. I imagine that's what's going on here.
People complain about gouging by hotels and taxis yet with all this dynamic pricing, in the end, it will be no better than the current situation atleast in terms of pricing.
Charging for the Google Maps API calls is probably where they make money off of it. Lots of apps use it.
Or, just buy the ETF that preforms well when there is an economic downturn. Possibly GDX and GDXJ (gold mining ETFs).
The native French like to make derogatory remarks about Islam, while the Muslims may badly overreact.

It is a bit flippant to put those two so close. The point is not who is right and who is wrong, he said she said---the point is that some people went objectively too far. We draw the line at physical violence.

Unless, of course, you actually believe that making derogatory remarks about Islam is comparable to what happened. It's not exactly clear from your comment; do you?
Absolutely.

What are their alternatives though? If they limit supply to keep artificially high prices they will still get a diminished accumulated income due to market share erosion. They will also encourage investment in oil producing capacity outside OPEC, risking further market share erosion.

If they let supply and demand set the price it will eventually drive high OPEX producers out of business, somewhat mitigating their losses in market share and with the possibility for them to recover some of their lost income. It's a matter of high OPEX products going out of business before they run out of cash reserves
> What's next?

Ban Internet because terrorists use it to communicate.
revolutionary ...

The emergence and craze of AJAX blew everyone away after that point. People realized there was a thing called XMLHTTPrequest. That technology had been my dream ever since I learned HTML. The tech came out in 1996 by Microsoft and nobody used it until 2003.

At this time, Firefox took the torch of keeping the web moving forward. So a whole buzz around web tech reignited.

Those were my days of inspiration.
It's barely been twelve hours - too soon for the results of any real investigation to have influenced the editorials coming out. What we're hearing is the positions that were prepared prior to the attacks themselves.

It's possible that the perpetrators evaded surveillance with encryption. It's also possible that the perpetrators did have their phones tapped, but investigators dropped the ball. It's possible that they avoided phones and did all their planning in person. It's even possible that someone made an executive decision to not intervene and stop them, for political reasons.

As far as I know, none of Snowden's criticisms have been addressed at French organizations. While there's some possibility US intelligence agencies could have picked up on this, it's primarily a European matter and not the NSA's responsibility. This makes Snowden's having undermined the NSA quite unlikely to have been relevant.
And if you're on a computer you can't install to or prefer to keep it on an external or cloud drive, you can grab the portable package, too: http://portableapps.com/apps/games/freeciv_portable
Fuck off already, fearmongers!
You ignore the long history of terrorist actions in Europe, with some animal rights groups, some left wing groups, some extreme right wing individuals, some nationalist / separatist groups, etc etc.
Remember when the FBI in America tried to do this and more or less failed in many respects?
I didn't sell everything, but I did sell a few things to take some profits and dumped a few losers to help offset those capital gains with some losses on things I really wanted to get out of. I'm going to over 75% cash right now. If the market drops 20% then I'm going to slowly start dollar cash averaging in to see if it trends back up. If it doesn't I'm just going to stay cash heavy.

If I had been smart enough to buy Google, Facebook, or Amazon a few years ago I would be taking some or maybe all profits there. If Apple goes below 100 I will start buying again and possibly selling covered calls on it.

My IRA's have a really long time horizon so although I'm still putting cash in them every month I'm not buying anything. I'm not selling anything in there either because I just buy SPY (S&P ETF) and occasionally some down and out sector ETFs every month.
There is no clear line which makes a sensation external or internally based. It's a messy abstraction, but there's some meaning behind it, because things can at least be relatively sorted by how external or internally based they are. For example, you may see a spider which 99.99% of sighted individuals would also see and agree there was a spider there, or you can hallucinate one, where only you would agree about a spider being present. Clearly the first is MORE externally based than the latter.
"give away" "get a job"

You do not understand why Open Source exists, how it works, or why people contribute to it.

Any "community" based activity such as neighborhood watch, habitat for humanity, barn raising.
Developing all kind of cool tech, but never releasing it?
>Back then 34 Mbit/s was something fantastic!

I can't even get 34 Mbps now. This was 20 years ago?
To clarify, I'm referring to freeways, not suburban neighborhoods. No pedestrians.
When people walk the streets, their faces are blurred. But if I know them, I can identify them too. Their shape makes it apparent.
No, quite simply it's called intelligence gathering. Old fashioned hard work, informant networks and Intel analysis.

Reliance on pure bulk surveillance is part of the problem. It's seen as a panacea but it just creates more noise.
They're not the only ones apparently:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/origination-of-googl...
Xv6
I've encountered this explanation before (most notably from Sam Harris), and I don't feel qualified to disagree with it, but I wonder how you account for the difference between the actions of Muslims and those of other religious traditions whose holy texts contain comparable passages.

If language advocating violence in a religion's scriptures were in itself sufficient to motivate its adherents to commit acts of violence, I would expect comparable levels of violence from these other religions. Given that this is clearly a problem unique to Islam in the modern age, it seems that the proximate cause can't be the Islamic scriptures alone.

Even if I'm not convinced, I disagree that you deserve to be downvoted. You've voiced an unpopular opinion, but it isn't rude or inflammatory (except possibly for the Santa analogy) and doesn't advocate inhumane behavior toward Muslims.
You may wish to read this [0] and this [1].

0: http://rethink911.org/
1: http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-six-things-about-the-isl...
You're right, and not overly contentious at all: I should've said it's the biggest factor, not the major one. I had in mind values I saw somewhere for the U.S. and my country (Portugal), both around 60%.
is it for men only? either way, cool I'm a fan of /r/edc
The paywall redirects to war propaganda. This is a trick.

Educate yourselves about the role propaganda plays in war, including current and former US operations.
If you have never traded before, don't try to jump in without knowing all the possibilities. A more likely scenario to unfold, is that Janet Yellen does NOT raise interest rates and instead, starts QE4. In this scenario, the dollar will tank and stocks (priced in dollars) will go up. Just be cautious.
> I'm just pointing out that input is distinct from output; they're not the same thing.

That's obviously true, but that's a very different statement than the one you originally made, namely, "Everything you will ever experience is all in your head."

In response to your new statement I will say: I understand what "input" means, but I can't imagine what "output" could possibly mean in the context of a discussion on subjective experience.

If you mean that whatever combination of neurons fire to produce a subjective experience in response to external stimuli can also be triggered without those external stimuli in some cases, then yes, that is also obviously true. But that is also a very different claim than "Everything you will ever experience is all in your head."
>especially if it was all jscript-driven

This is going to reveal an embarrassing lack of historical context, but could Google Maps have run in the Javascript of the '90s? Has the language changed significantly since then, or do we just... use it for everything now?
This isn't true.

The NSA had bin laden's sat-phone line in the 90s. I've seen documentaries on it.
The std. dev. of a binomial is sqrt(n p (1-p)). So for 19 coin flips that's ~2.2, or 11%, not 23%.

Plus your setup is not relevant to the setup that they performed (check figure 3).

I am not so surprised that many studies are not replicated, but I also am not surprised when critical internet comments are weaker than the analysis they criticize.
I wish they were more open to let the whole world use the standards they set. MS was an amazing platform company they set some of the greatest standards we have come to known. It is sad to see those standards hit the dust in the face of more inviting technologies.
When the article says:
> In response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks that hit Paris in January of 2015, France adopted one of the most aggressive surveillance laws in the Western world. That was not enough to stop these attacks.

That's very misleading, as the law was just voted and isn't in application yet.
As another commenter mentioned, that's an old conspiracy theory. It's already being discussed in the press (see link below). It's problematic that even when you have a growing surveillance state, the state has less incentive to act to protect or attempt to prevent attacks on "soft targets" ie: the public at large even when they have solid information supporting an imminent attack. Or worded a bit more strongly, a state hoping to garner support for more sweeping anti-civil liberties measures has an incentive to allow such attacks to happen even when they could be prevented.

As a practical matter of how this could occur, a small group of intelligence analysts could selectively withhold important information from decision makers, or decision makers could selectively ignore key pieces of information. Either can get you the result of allowing an attack while leaving plausible excuses as to why it wasn't deliberate.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/paris-attacks-raises-quest...
The only people who know are Dragos Ruiu, his associates, and possibly some incredibly talented (if strangely sadistic) malware authors.
In the Bay Area swings are common in both parks and private residences. Where did you live in the US?
> Have you considered the possibility that those researchers have the same motivation as the "friends"?

You seem to be implying that a significant portion of discrimination is (by fair means or foul) invented, on the basis that women have a motive to do so.

By that same logic, a significant portion of men would therefore refute and deny any genuine stories of discrimination, as they have a motive to do so.

The best way to unpick this stuff is with actual data, and there's plenty of data (from labs, randomised controlled trials, and other types of study) that says discrimination is still occurring at a systematic level.

> You brought up gender studies researchers by referencing material of questionable scientific credibility.

Feel free to offer some thoughtful analysis of the actual papers mentioned.

> As to you "doing a lot of work on exactly that subject", what are the results?

To be published when ready.

> Why do you, like a lot of men, automatically genuflect to damsels, going on about their distress?

That would be empathy, Bob.
They tried this in the mid 90s. They were called COOLs
(Concurrent Object Oriented Language).
The conclusion at the time was:
Using OO for this is already a step in the wrong direction; generating C++ is another. l'Histoire se repete.
Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design,How the Trend Slowly Decreases User Efficiency
I have argued since 2000 that terrorism is a problem of TECHNOLOGY. Technology enables small groups of people that previously were unable to do much damage to do a lot more. And that will only increasez

If you read what I said back then, I said that I see mass surveillance as the inevitable outcome of that. All the political correctness in our countries isn't going to stop this reaction, and its attendant overreactiona, like McCarthy era anticommunist activities.

What I didn't realize back then was the role of computers to sift through massive stores of data, and identify patterns that may or may not be true. The computers will then be used by the few to control the many, using existing systems like voting and jury trials by using parallel construction and reputational attacks (see the revealed NSA slide about that).

We are constructing a zoo in which we humans will live, let's hope the computers running it are programmed to give us enough freedom to enjoy our lives. However, just like a zoo animal can't cause a lot of damage, so each individual human will be watched in the future. The right to privacy is not going to be killed by facebook, but by responses to terrorism.
Lovely design. One thing I don't like though is too flashy header IMO. And this mix of green and blue in new post is unsettling. I would simply change this light blue buttons to something else :)
They ARE the terrorists.
> The French military has carried out its first airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, according to a statement from the office of France's presidency.

> The country had announced earlier this month that it would expand its aerial campaign against ISIS in Iraq -- which it began a year ago -- to include the militant group's positions in Syria.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/middleeast/syria-france-isis-b...
The Other France
Heck, Google didn't even invent Google Earth, they bought a company named Keyhole and renamed it.
I remember an article written by Pavel Durov (founder of Telegram) which I read a few months ago.

The name of the article calls for itself:

Dragon Slayer Becomes The New Dragon

https://medium.com/@durov/dragon-slayer-becomes-the-new-drag...
Technology can help increase empathy. At least I think it can. I hope it can.

That technology might help. Maybe by sharing the marginalized stories of vulnerable people.

We've tried fear and anger to stop these kind of things, but it's just like a whack-a-mole. Why don't we try empathy and understanding?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IgOVOPLTYI

disclaimer: My heart goes out to all of those touched by needless violence. I in no way endorse violence of any kind, and the perpetrators of such deserve to be caught, tried, and if guilty, locked away for the rest of their lives. That said, those that do overt violence are not the root of the problem. They have (or had) friends and family that could have steered them in a different direction.
Heuristics are very well and all, but certainty is another matter entirely.
No it hasn't.
We have a name for people that use public fear to push their agenda.
I could write a lot to explain it, but at the end of the day, unless you can accept the following it is not worth the effort.

CPAN is the language, perl is just the VM.
If you're looking for a multiple on the gold trade, look into the gold mining sector. When gold moves a little, the gold miners move a lot. GDX and GDXJ are some good basket ETFs. GDXJ is the junior mining companies and has a higher multiple than GDX. It also works in the inverse too though, if gold goes down, these go down even more.
Don't think about the laws in terms of a single monopoly. The laws should be more accurately described as anti-trust or competition laws.

A handful of large players, each with less than 50% market share, can also distort the market and engage in anti-competitive tactics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
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Right, but did that rigor go down to the field? Unlikely that his rigor would percolate all the way down, however with it now being common knowledge rather than paranoia most anyone downstream would also observe the same paranoia due to the revelations.
I think you don't know what you're talking about.
It looks like you just followed a whole bunch of people, and they followed you back at least from a very quick look.
unacceptable. we are all human beings and like it or not we are connected. if a shariah govt. is suppressing the rights of the people who don't believe in religion or who believe in women's rights, then damn right we're gonna act.

There are some issues that are global such as basic human rights and we can't just say we won't interfere. If you expect to export your oil to us and do business with us then don't take away basic rights and freedoms from people who don't agree with the majority, i.e. with Islamic theocracy.
I'm surprised DoorDash et al. didn't do away with tips. It causes consternation for the couriers, is easily forgotten by the customers, and seems to have no benefit.

You can choose to set the tip when placing the order, or give a cash tip when the driver arrives. The former is convenient, but meaningless; how do you set a tip for a service not yet performed? The latter is inconvenient, especially if you don't carry the necessary cash. It complicates the delivery interaction, is more likely to be forgotten, and still won't be very accurate. Are you going to take the food out of the bag and check it before you tip and let the courier leave?

Uber did away with tips, and it's wonderful. Drivers know how much they're going to make, riders know how much they're spending, there is no awkwardness or pressure, and the rating system does a far better job at maintaining level of service.

My only experience has been with DoorDash. They should do away with tips and overhaul their post-experience rating system. Right now the only options are to give one overall rating to the whole experience, which is useless, or to report a problem, and even then you're only able to report one problem. If, for example, both your delivery was messed up and the order was wrong, you can't tell DoorDash about both. You have to choose one. And their customer service takes 12 hours to respond, with completely arbitrary refunds. Compare to Uber who has responded to all my inquiries within 3 minutes.

Still worse, when I report a problem with my order (wrong items) ... who gets blamed? Does DoorDash investigate and see who was at fault, to correctly apply blame, or do they automatically blame the restaurant? None of that is made clear to the customer, and so it gives me pause whenever I report problems.
Or, apt-get install freeciv .

Just enjoyably spent an hour remembering exactly how quickly an hour goes when playing freeciv.
Surely OP didn't mean to celebrate being tracked by advertisers. Emotional reactions are understandable, but if you take a step back, the technology could be used in a very different way. The problem is not that it uses sounds which are difficult to hear. The problem is that it does this without user's consent.
Wow. Terrific post- it is finding these kind of Gems that keeps me coming back to HN.
On that note, supposedly the reason that RMS started FSF and GNU was printer drivers.

Where the previous printer had come with source code for the drivers, allowing RMS to implement an "out of paper" message directed to accounts with a document in the queue, the new printer didn't.

And when the company that sold it proved unhelpful he got frustrated enough that he ended up formulating what was to become the four freedoms.
George W. Bush? There is a word for it too.
Xkcd: Isolation
I don't think we need complicated conspiracy theories that demonise intelligence workers to explain this sort of narrative. There's now a group of people whose job is to use bulk data intercept to predict and stop crimes before they happen, essentially a Minority Report but real (they do other things too, but let's ignore that for now).

As no group of people can be 100% effective, they will always occasionally fail even if they succeed most of the time, and when they do their explanation for their own failure will always be "we needed more". And they will truly believe that! No secret agenda needed. From their POV it's the only answer they can possibly give.

I fully expect in the coming weeks to learn (shock) that the terrorists had Facebook accounts, used WhatsApp, searched on Google, used iPhones and the DGCE will undoubtably claim that if they had access to all those things the plot could have been detected earlier and stopped. What else are they gonna say? "Whoops, our bad"?
Wait what? You get postmates delivered via monster truck? How is that even legal?
Culture clash.

They're from an English speaking country, so are we. They want to get challenging work done, and so do we. They come from an entrenched culture that's hyper-aware of fine differentiation of class and hierarchical structure, we come from a democratic culture of mutual consideration and informal comradeship between all levels of hierarchy.

They think being the boss means being The Boss. We think that being the boss means being another employee with more responsibility and privilege.
> blind violence

It is in my own not politically correct opinion (I expect to be downvoted for this) not blind at all. It is targeted against freedom of expression and also against feminism, which they see as immoral. It is targeted towards freedom of expression because of the dogmas regarding the depiction of their own religious figures, and that is intimately related to their religion. And all that happens because they went to other countries, but entirely rejecting other cultures, and their own culture includes trying to convert the entire world to Islam.

This is also a consequence of the Mongols and the Sack of Baghdad in 1258. Before this, Islam was the enlightened culture that preserved Greek discoveries and it was truly the religion of peace. After it, they became much more orthodox and rejected the science they helped preserve.
What would be your biggest frustration fulfilling the role of a tech leader?
My team has 20 people and I find it really hard to keep them focused on perfecting the product. Seems like we are always responding to "emergencies" created by the sale team.

I was just wondering what other problems you were facing as technical leaders...

I also made a survey since I really want to understand what we are going through at the moment as technical leaders. I would really appreciate your help on that. Here is the link:

http://goo.gl/forms/Ncm7QuxzGg

I've put up a report called Lessons learnt from “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz which condenses the knowledge from the book. I will be sending it for free as gratitude for helping with the survey.