skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possible != Easy. There are quite a lot of guys who took that path and its totally possible. Unfortunately a great example of what can go wrong is now available with RoboVM, this turned out to be such a huge effort to maintain that they literally closed their source.

Now the OSS community is trying to fork the code and because the code is so complex its really hard to do that.

Even if Codename One goes belly up or is acquired by a closed source company in the future you will probably be able to still work with the code without a problem.

There are a couple of other advantages with this approach:

1. Use the native tooling (e.g. profilers etc.) which are pretty amazing on iOS.

2. Just write Objective-C/SWIFT code for various features. This is hugely convenient when adopting features from the latest version of iOS.
The thing is many people try ClojureScript and end up leaving while many others do stay. I am in the former group and my reasons are exactly what i stated but you are right to point out that my reasons may not be everyone's reasons, which I never assumed. Hence the Rant tag. Fair enough, some people find use of CSP for simple scenario of concurrent wait-for-all async management a natural fit but i find it an overkill. Promises are fine but I find async/await syntax much more easy to understand.

I do hope CLJS stays a strong niche language but any hope of it taking over the world is unlikely, IMO.
The patents involved in the suit mostly looks like MS's patents on parts of Office 2007 UI that was filed in 2006 or so, including parts of the Ribbon.
None.

grsecurity (Well, Open Source Security, Inc.) is a good example of an actual security vendor.
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This isn't a great representation of the issue. Everyone loves to hate the drug companies.

First of all, the basic science is lacking. The vast majority of animal models in no way resemble the normal process by which humans develop cancer. The models are designed to grow aggressive cancers extremely fast so you can test drugs rapidly, publish your paper and get the next grant. Even more than that, what actually takes place in the years before a cancer becomes clinically relevant is quite speculative. So a long term commitment to funding prevention research is needed from governments and funding bodies, because pharma can't fund this kind of basic science.

The other problem is that to do a good prevention trial, you need to identify people at risk. We aren't really that good at doing this (eg we screen ALL women above the age of 50 for breast cancer, we screen EVERYONE above the age of 50 for bowel cancer). There is some debate about whether screening in this manner is actually as worth wile as it has been made out to be, because it leads to over diagnosis without a survival benefit. So you have to be careful not to design an intervention that only prevents cancer in those who weren't going to be affected by it anyway. This is why you can't use surrogate end points - at the end of the day, for prevention, mortality is what matters. Are we going to give hundreds of millions of women drug X and make them suffer niggling side effects for 20 years because it reduces the rate of diagnosis of breast cancer? Definitely not - overall mortality is what matters (and quality of life).

It's not even a given that you can actually identify people at risk - some researchers think cancer is just bad luck (ie it is not predictable at all, or the predicting factors are unknowable). Even if this is wrong however, cancer risk probably involves weak effects from hundreds or even thousands of factors. We are very far from working all of this out.

A drug is probably not what we want. Actually a drug is really not what we want. They are too expensive and too much effort to distribute and monitor. Drugs also always produce health inequalities within and between nations. A holistic approach to improving our health and well being would be preferable, at least incorporating nutrition, exercise and psychology. Unfortunately the nutritional, exercise and psychological sciences are not hitting home runs in that regard, which is not surprising because they miss out on the billions we spend fighting an incredibly wasteful war on cancer.
Dapps are extremely interesting and I agree that most people are completely ignorant of the potential. I don't think they'll make anything obsolete though. They'll just carve out an interesting new niche (which, depending on regulation, will likely be a double-digit % of the market).
It's like I said: FPGA's are awesome accelerators for all kinds of things, datacenters are already using SOC's doing cores + hard blocks (see Cavium Octeon III), and Intel can possibly capitalize by adding FPGA tech to server CPU's. On top of it, they need years of investment into EDA to make it usable. What Altera already did for them.

With FPGA on-chip, you can offload intensive computations to semi-custom blocks. I/O processing, compression, crypto, fast transactions, data mining, you name it.
Sales skills are among the most portable across industries.
No offense, but this feels like a nice but meaningless soundbite, and a bit of 'whataboutism'.

The important part of any internet law, and any country's level of freedom/privacy on the internet isn't measured by the bland statements policy makers make to the press, but in the content of the laws that actually get passed. I'm sure you could find two statements from Hitler and JFK about how they love kids - doesn't mean they are equivalent.
$250k in NYC and San Francisco does NOT offer an "upper-class" quality of life.
The complaint is from 2015. Who the hell uses Corel Office?
I'd like to suggest Blindsight by
Peter Watts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
That's not true. ParparVM supports a subset of Java 8 not J2ME class libraries.

True that RoboVM does carry over a lot of Android's bloat and quite a few cross platform bugs and broken implementations. E.g. SQLite thread safety, broken java.net stack etc.

Oh and its also closed source now ;-)
Further, a lot of shared data structures in super high perf C++ end up with "Free Lists" to allow multiple threads to perform atomic delete operations on the data structure. Point being that memory is no longer freed deterministically.

"If there's other threads working here, atomic compare and swap this pointer to the free list, otherwise last one out clean up."

Take a look at some of the code from Chapter 7 from Anthony Williams "C++ Concurrency in Action" [0].

[0] https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/0/78f6c43-...
When You Go to Work at a Startup, Read Its Financials
Oh crap i didnt know that. Means they have a near-NUMA interconnect, FPGA tech, and recent RAS features. They could be a supercomputing and cloud force of nature if they play their cards right. They'll have advantage of best nodes, tools, and probably mask discounts. Getting more exciting...
Considering that there are no wide spread generic cancer prevention drugs how would you know?
Probably should've posted this response to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10805327

Now I mean it even more.
I also recommend Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7779/7779-h/7779-h.htm
Design patents cannot cover functional aspects, and mimicking another product for usability (not aesthetics) sounds pretty darn functional to me. Especially in the realm of word processors where there's such a lopsided market.
So what's the next crisis? actually read the article and this article does not really expound upon some sort of next crisis.. I guess the crisis is that interest rates are so low?? awesome click-bait apparently..
The First Look at the Second Google Glass
No, inevitably bitcoin in such a scenario would end up as the base, and they'd stack an easier to abuse fiat secondary on top again. The demand would be not only overwhelming for such, but probably unavoidable.

You've got 1000 bitcoin, and you can lend it out as 'dollars' that can be spent in countless ways by the borrower. Instantly we're back to a system capable of vast credit. All it requires is a non-fixed fiat rider on top of bitcoin, likely controlled by a central government (so that they too can abuse it, for war, deficit spending, buying votes, et al).
It was mainly used for algorithms and prototyping ASIC's for most of its existence. The high level tools advertised to software people likewise did that. These days, they have great I/O options too.
There is an enormous amount of money in a cure, mitigation is mere tactical profit that you take when there is no obvious cure. The thing to remember is that, at least in the US biotech market, there are a large number of companies competing for those profits. Patients benefit immensely from mitigation research -- look at HIV. A lot of mitigation therapies were originally "cures" that did not work as well as hoped.

At any point in time, patients have the choice across the spectrum of mitigations or cures. Cures are more difficult to produce but if they are available patients will choose them every time. Companies that produce mitigating medicine are counting on their ability to recoup investment before a cure materializes at some point in the future. If a cure becomes available, the value of their mitigation research goes to zero. Biomedical companies make bets that, if a disease looks particularly difficult to cure, mitigation will retain its value long enough to return a profit as a product.

Most biomedical research companies are looking for cures because it allows them to do an end run around their competitors and grab most of the profits. Every biomedical company wants a cure because it completely displaces competitive mitigation strategies and therefore allows them to collect virtually all of the profits. Mitigation is the fallback position when cures fail. But biomedical research is looking for the cure that will give the a naturally monopoly position by default.
IMO, this is one of the biggest missed opportunities for Github. It should come-up with a way for maintainers to ask for cash on its issue pages.
I tried the same thing and never did get the company I was looking for, mine was Intel.
... full of HUGE spoilers! Just some random searching on Alastair Reynolds' novels revealed many many things that are only revealed at the end of his books.
Indian Entrepreneurs from poor family background but source of inspiration
There are some minor differences in stroke order by region, but the basic rules are always the same (e.g. top before bottom, left before right, etc).

It's genuinely hard to read people's writing if the stroke order is off.

If you write super slowly and deliberately it may not matter much, but in my actual real-life usage I've found that it does. If you're learning, you're definitely better off learning the standard stroke order for the area where you live.
It is important to distinguish between what we call "creating money" which is really fraudulently introducing multiple claims on the same monetary unit at the same points of time (and which remain unexercised until a panic) vs. loaning money, which can be done perfectly safely so long as the money being loaned is available for the duration of the loan.

So, when a bank issues an honest loan for a million dollars for 10 years, it needs to have 1 million dollars pledged to it by savers for at least ten years (in the form of CDs or what have you.) This money may be spent in the economy and thereby returned to the bank as a deposit of some duration, which can be loaned against again safely, so long as it is reloaned under the same constraint: the bank must ensure that any loans made against the re-deposited money are done in a shorter term than the deposit is for. You can have very rapid loan growth in this manner, as time horizons expand during growth phases, and suffer none of the issues with multiple parties claiming the same monetary unit at the same time, commonly called bank runs.

Money can be safely "fractionally reserved" so long as intentional duration mismatch (which is really fraud) is not allowed. That's the core issue in the banking system. The production of the underlying money is a separate question, but I'm less and less convinced it matters all that much, as long as it isn't insane.
I'm not a lawyer, but that "e.g." doesn't sound like a constraint either, so anything they can remotely claim will "improve these input features" is probably allowed.
Ask HN: Have you had any old Gmail addresses hijacked?
Recently, I tried to login to one of my older gmail accounts and discovered that the password had been changed very recently. Since these were old accounts I had not used in years, they did not have 2FA enabled. However, they did have very strong randomly generated 20+ char passwords with uppercase/lowercase/numbers/symbols. These passwords were stored on a password bank that was not compromised, and I don't even know these passwords by memory. I'm not the type to fall for phishing scams and I try to keep my systems secure, but I had not even used those passwords in over a year, so there is no possibility that I somehow exposed them sometime in the past month.

The recovery email for these accounts was NOT hijacked. He simply changed the passwords and recovery email and then he subsequently enabled 2FA himself.

However, these old emails were set to automatically forward to one of my new addresses and the hijacker forgot to disable that feature. What I've found is he started to use one of the emails for his own "business". Apparently he makes a living procuring YouTube, Gmail and Twitter handles for people. Judging from these emails, he is quite successful at doing so for YouTube / Gmail handles where 2FA is not enabled.

I realize that enabling 2FA is a must these days, but I find it troubling that this character seems to be able to hijack these accounts so easily. Especially when those accounts are inactive and without the use of phishing or a keylogger. Anyone have any clue how this is possible?

Also a PSA: If you haven't enabled 2FA on any old accounts you might care about, go do that now.
i have never used Corel Draw personally, but here in India, I have seen it (maybe very old versions )being used in PCB printing and laser cutting shops (probably other shops too that i haven't seen/can't recall now). Seems like a defacto standard in that niche. Don't know whether there are other popular alternatives in the industry though.
In fairness, he doesn't mention anything about how the people who helped him made out in the deal.
Doesn't the stock market create (and in the inverse, destroy) money?

If Apple goes from $13/share to $700+/share, those hundreds of billions of dollars are basically created from thin air, aren't they?
explain HPV vaccination then.
and the banning of abestos.
and all anti-smoking legislation.
and all other EPA regulation banning carcinogens.
etc etc etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_and_patents
> WebAssembly probably won't [have a GC] for some time

Citation needed :)

> It also doesn't have ~20 years of performance tuning on different microarchitectures the way the JVM does.

JS engines have been tuned very well over the years. Remember that Web Assembly is designed to run in a JS engine.
Wouldn't implementing bash/zsh completions achieve the same result?
The purpose of A Patent is to allow the inventor to openly share their idea without the fear of stealing. The inventors are also allowed/encouraged to financially profit from their idea so they can continue invention.

But these type of patents are hurting everybody except one person.

Shame.
It's easy in theory but hard go do well. Most that work pretty well are commercial. Here's the only OSS one I know still getting significant:

http://legup.eecg.utoronto.ca/publications.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
Also don't miss the report on the issue for the Icelandic government https://www.forsaetisraduneyti.is/media/Skyrslur/monetary-re...
No. The share price is the latest price someone purchased that share for. It's just a metric. Someone did literally spend $700 and gave it to someone else in exchange for one "share". Now, you may call a "share" just a piece of air--but it is something that has value. The money for it, however, comes out of my pocket and is definitely not thin air.
I think you grossly overstate what $1 million can buy. While it is absolutely a cushion... it's not the freedom you imply. 10 years of "taking time off" looks great on paper, until it's time to get a job again. When you've got a gap like that in your employment resume... you're just begging for trouble. And 10 years is probably quite gratuitous depending on what part of the country you live. That $1 million might be less than 5 years of living expenses...
Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos: The feud is rooted in a patent
Just came across this today. I wonder if this is the reason Musk is rattled by anything Bezos does and says in aerospace:

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/blue-origins-rocket-landing-patent-canceled-in-victory-for-spacex/
Is it Vivado they're giving away? That would be pretty awesome given even a Spartan6 is quite powerful.
There are very few likely possibilities.

1) Some kind of dollar, global reserve crisis that rocks the global economy for a while. Spurred on by the US debt and projected near future large budget deficits due to welfare and entitlement spending.

2) Broader bond market. I think this is a well understood threat, and doesn't require much elaboration.

3) A specific junk corporate debt crisis. About half of the major corporate defaults in 2015 were US companies, which have levered up significantly on the back of the Fed's super easy money policies.

4) Another significant drop backwards in the asset bubbles the Fed just got done re-inflating. If the Fed's policies fail to provide enough to sustain those huge asset classes (real estate and equities primarily), then when they tip over it'll pull the US economy down into a protracted recession. The global economy is practically in a rolling recession as it is, if the US goes next it would cause a lot more global pain (including amplifying the problems in China and Japan, both big exporters to the US). There's a real debate to be had about whether the Fed can ever actually create a scenario in which the intentionally inflated assets can sustain (stand alone without Fed props), or if they have to always deflate backwards with a hefty penalty for the market manipulation / forced capital misallocation (which then prompts even more dramatic action at each turn, to try to re-inflate).
Too bad I'm not in a CS department.

But, on a serious note, when I asked this point-blank at an orientation for new professors, the response from a senior EE professor was "never work on anything that won't lead to a publication". Unfortunately, as you're well aware, that isn't how open source projects work, but that is the perspective of many senior academics outside of my area (and likely software altogether) that will have loud opinions around tenure time.

I'm well aware that this is what I've signed up for, but I'm also keenly aware that many postdocs that are both academically and software-engineering capable can easily convince themselves that this isn't the cold truth.
No. Stock prices represent the markets approximation of the value of a share in the company, and its potential for future growth. Stocks can (sort of) be thought of as currency which represents companies rather than a government's reserve systems. A US dollar is worth $1 because you and the person you are giving it to expect it to be worth $1 (roughly) tomorrow. When you move stocks, it's a similar agreement on the value of what is being moved.

Of course, with stocks you have a much larger ability to measure your trust.
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If you would go for private repos, i think it would be harder.

Public git repositories on github are an alternative for your resume ( that's good for your project). But private repositories could also mean gitlab integration and etc.. :)
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Really, my comment was part asking for more information to continue the discussion (1), and part soap-box which was less a critique of what you said and more a critique of the broken social situation which has led to you commenting on the inappropriateness of a statement which you admit "isn't just the particular criticism leveled, but also the identity doing the criticizing." The name-calling I was referring to is actually more along the lines of calling someone entitled, not because "victimhood mentality" can't and isn't use pejoratively, but because in the current social context it's less likely to be dismissed as acceptable and or correct, while I think "entitled" may be dismissed as okay in exactly that way.

In other words, I think the social capital of this discussion is so heavily one-sided that it's having a negative impact on discourse for the majority of people.
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World's 1 and only BMW ICE cream motorcycle for sale: 22.5k
Well, yes, but then you're just benefitting from lax de facto enforcement, not any de jure certainty. And anything de facto which operates below the standard demanded by de jure can change at a moment's notice, subject to politics, audits, or someone waking up on the wrong side of the bed.
Tobin's Commercial Banks as Creators of 'Money' (1963) is a pretty readable and interesting explanation: http://courses.umass.edu/econ711-rpollin/Tobin--Commercial%2...
I don't get it. What is it about startups that makes them special compared to all other forms of bringing change to the world?

Look, as a startup founder, I am a fan of what I do, but I'd be skeptical of saying that mine is the only (or the best) way to accomplish change. It's one of the many ways of starting a business, so what?

There are so many ways to skin this cat, and it feels like startups are seeing this much push only because the media absolutely loves this space. Why is the next Mark Zuckerberg a major area of focus for a university?

Is it a power law thing? Is one charitable Zuckerberg a better ROI for humanity than 100000 quality graduates?
Big Short Genius Says Another Crisis Is Coming
Reminds me of my friend who's correctly predicted 10 out of the last 2 stock market crashes.