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On that note, let's also add canaries to our own projects. The more mainstream this is, the better.

Here's ours, which we added today: https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub/blob/master/TRANSPARENC.... Feel free to use this as a template for your own.
This is, in fact, how rsync.net's canary works: https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
Presumably if you dev in rhel or particularly rhel/.net, you'd want to run the same in prod.
So just curious can anyone share their uses of Perl 6 and if they have anything going on in production? I already know that CraigsList at one point (if not still) is powered by Perl, but I'm not sure which Perl that is really.

On another note: I find it quite fascinating that Perl 6 is implemented in Perl 6, that would in theory allow you to implement Perl for .NET or the JVM and retain plenty of Perl as a result if I'm not mistaken.

Edit: fixed up my post
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You're most welcome, but just so you know, we'd never delete a story for that reason. That would be an awful lot of deletion :)
This thread is about servers.
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The C Class you've linked starts at 40,000$ and featurewise it's empty inside, you will need to add an extra $10K to get all the features basic model 3 has.
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The finance report wouldn't show individual transactions. So if you used the credit card to buy yourself $50 worth of groceries, it's likely to fly under the radar. Hacker Dojo does have the general breakdown of their finances publicly -- it's shown every month during their member meetings. However, one could easily hide the $50 in a general group like "janitorial supplies".

When someone embezzles $30k, they don't do it in one transaction. That would be far too obvious. If you space it out over a year, one could make it fairly invisible.
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I see a lot of Haskell-ish things there.
Having said that, I do wonder to what degree various database engines are aware of the underlying disk platforms.

I've definitely noticed that when optimizing a query and deciding between a high number of seeks vs. a table scan, older versions of MSSQL will tend to be pessimistic of drive latencies and just go with the full scan (potentially incorrectly / prematurely). In an uncached scenario on an SSD, this is probably sub-optimal. My guess would be that instead of looking at actual seek latency, the optimizer was using reasonable guesses for spinning disks. I'm guessing newer versions are more SSD aware though.
>"Move fast, break things" doesn't work when people's lives are at stake.

No matter what you do, people's lives are at stake. Even an app that suggests which restaurant to go for dinner could cause somebody to die by suggesting a restaurant in an area with higher rate of accidents.

The problem is how little consumers have control of when it comes to healthcare. We like to hand wave and pretend that the rules of economics don't apply when it comes to healthcare so instead of having a market where a person can shop for medicine, doctor's service, equipment etc. it all is more or less just close your eyes go in the tunnel and you will be taken care of and any issue of choice with regards to money is occluded by 'universal healthcare is a human right'.

If I could go to a hospital who would then give me a brochure of all the equipments they use and I find out one of their supplier is a dodgy companies that have dodgy equipments and terrible bug-handling practice I would go to another seller just as I would a smartphone that uses a dodgy processor that is known to break.
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Nobody ever checks their backups! This is such a great way to take care of it automatically.

I'm not at all against sanity checks, especially of something you trust will work when you need it to like backups. But what would cause a DB backup to the filesystem to fail? When they are/were stored on tape or other media, there is certainly the concern of media corruption. But when we're talking about files resting on disk, what would cause a backup to be corrupt or unusable? Certainly there is some expectation that mysql/psql can reliably dump a DB. Or is it purely for sleeping soundly at night?
The article mentioned OCaml meetup in Bay Area. Where can I find one?
Ok, if they consider $35K BMW a luxury car, then how would they call a $90K Porshe? Or $300K Rolls-Royce?
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> On another note: I find it quite fascinating that Perl 6 is implemented in Perl 6, that would in theory allow you to implement Perl for .NET or the JVM

Rakudo already has a JVM backend! It's not used as much as the MoarVM backend, mostly because the startup time of the JVM is horrible, but it's there. A Javascript backend is being worked on.
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Left-Pad added as a syscall to the kernel - https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/31/1108
Yeah definitely, but it's not really necessary to run them on your laptop. You could simply vnc into a remote machine to use tools like photoshop etc. As for nodejs or any other building tools they don't affect your choice of laptop.

If you need performance then you may have to sacrifice battery and weight. if you need something you can carry around you have to give up performance as your primary choice.
> A little copying is better than a little dependency.

I actually disagree with this. Given that we're already working with projects that can have several hundred dependencies - I think the goal ought to be in removing the weight of including the dependency.

sindresorhus says it better than me though https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1...

I imagine it also depends on whether your place of employment is writing one giant single-repository codebase vs. several modular applications, as the latter clearly affords a package manager while the former eschews the complexity of composing systems.
Given that no one has real "people based" access to anything beyond earth, I find it incredibly egotistical to have a space treaty. I think perhaps it is driven more from "If anyone gets there before me I still want a piece of it if they get there before me"

I have no doubt that once a nation, Company, top 1% elite get somewhere out there in space, their language will change and they will say it belongs to them.

Look at Antartica ... it has already been divided up into regions more or less belonging to different nations despite the retoric.
Look up Raph Levien’s Ph.D thesis about “spiro” curves (a.k.a. cornu or Euler spirals). He not only proposes a pretty neat type of curve to use, which affords some nice UIs, but also does a great job detailing the history of splines, including other types of smooth “minimum energy” curves, IKARUS splines, Hobby splines (used by METAFONT), etc. http://www.levien.com/phd/phd.html

[I’m somewhat surprised that the Pomax page doesn’t have a section about Hobby splines to go with the section about Catmull-Rom splines. Here’s the Stanford tech report describing them http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/85/1047/CS-TR-8... ; Apple’s Pages and Keynote programs now can use Hobby splines for making shapes, https://bosker.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/beyond-bezier-curves... ; the problem I have with Hobby splines is that there are certain types of shapes that are a real pain to create. As long as you want something very smooth it works pretty well, but whenever the Hobby curve isn’t giving you quite the result you want, tweaking it precisely can become really tricky, and you wish you just had full control over the Bézier arms. It could just be that I don’t have enough practice with them though.]

Another type of curve that is very interesting for some applications is a Pythagorean-hodograph curve. These are curves such that the derivative in the X and Y direction are represented by "Pythagorean" polynomials, i.e. the hypotenuse √(x²+y²) is itself a polynomial. This means that the arclength can be precisely computed in closed form, as can mathematically precise offset curves, which makes them great for defining CAM cut paths.

Lots of CAD software uses b-splines, specifically “NURBS”, as the main curve primitive. Some computer animation software uses subdivision surfaces instead. I’ve never been the biggest fan of UIs for manipulating either one. YMMV.

Personally, I think even for using parametric cubic polynomial segments (i.e. for interoperating 1:1 with systems where the main drawing primitive is a cubic Bézier curve), it works a bit better from a UI perspective to specify the (x, y) locations of on-curve points at t = {0.0, 0.25, 0.75, 1.0} in each segment [these points are the extrema of the Chebyshev polynomial of the appropriate degree] and then convert to Bézier basis by multiplying by the appropriate matrix. I haven’t ever seen anyone try to implement such a UI in production software though, only my own little experimental doodles. (Only downside is that makes it slightly trickier to ensure smoothness at the endpoints in cases where that matters. I think this can be worked around with some extra UI effort.)
Google Maps iOS - "Funky Town" destination when searching. Pegman dresses up and dances as a 70s nightclub-goer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_CLA-Class

The Mercedes Benz CLA starts at $32k. Its considered a luxury vehicle by everyone I know, including Wikipedia.

Argue with someone else, like whoever wrote the Wikipedia article. A "luxury vehicle" is anything basically any sedan above $30k. There are a ton of vehicles below $20k, and plenty between $20k and $30k.

Vans and Trucks are a bit different, because they provide extra utility and often cost $30k+. Luxury SUVs, Vans, and Trucks are closer to $40k to $50k.

Most people I know don't even have new cars for crying out loud, and "new" is basically a luxury.
Visual Studio is written in C++ and C# and expects the Win32 API. Moving that to Linux would be a massive, many year project even for Microsoft. Will never happen. Instead something new like Visual Studio Code that is cross platform is more likely to continue development.
The idea is that you don't need to keep track of what's what, it's all original text. Why did you feel you had to distinguish?
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april fools?
http://www.happilyunmarried.com/ustraa/rascals-guide/ustraa-...
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It's a shame it's not a hatchback. It looks like it would make a very natural one.
There's one fact that is never mentioned in this story.

Methane is lighter than air (about 0.7th the density of air). The methane leak is above Porter Ranch (about 1200 feet, a fact that is mentioned).

You know that and I know that. But do most NYT readers know that? If not, why doesn't the writer mention it? He does mention elliptically that the town residents are smelling mercaptans, not methane. He doesn't mention that the methane can't possibly be reaching them. It seems like this simple science fact would bring a lot of clarity to the picture.

(In related news, the greenhouse effect is O(log n), as a function from greenhouse gas concentration to thermal forcing. I'm sure everyone here knew this as well.)
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Here's my solution: Do it right the first time.
Obviously you're expectd to be a hardcore motorsport enthusiast who has a honed instinct for the current kph :p
I'm also looking to upgrade later this year, I suggest the Dell Precision 5510 or 3510
You don't think there might be a certain information asymmetry between you and a medical care provider? And if there's not, why are you going to doctor at all?
Yes, my point was more about that sudden deaths happen in our society and sometime even our advanced medical possibilities can't really do something, probably was not clear enough.
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Thanks for your moderation! I'll just add that I generally love Hacker News, and I wish I knew a more constructive way to express my feeling here. (By the way, I think it's an interesting approach of MetaFilter to have a "meta" forum for meta-discussions like this one...)

Larry Wall gave a state of the onion speech about Perl as a "postmodern" language... which means something like, its guiding principles aren't only classical or modernist... it doesn't just aim for simplicity, purity, elegance, unity, etc... instead, it includes some very different values, like plurality, camp, fun, "just weird enough"-ness, "ha ha only serious"... some quotes:

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

> I combined these cool features [from all kinds of other languages] in a way that makes sense to me as a postmodern linguist, not in a way that makes sense to the typical Modernistic computer scientist. Recall that the essence of Modernism is to take one cool idea and drive it into the ground.

> Well...Perl does one thing, and does it well. What it does well is to integrate all its features into one language. More importantly, it does this without making them all look like each other. Ducts shouldn't look like girders, and girders shouldn't look like ducts. Neither of those should look like water pipes, and it's really important that water pipes not look like sewer pipes. Or smell like sewer pipes. Modernism says that we should make all these things look the same (and preferably invisible). Postmodernism says it's okay for them to stick out, and to look different, because a duct ought to look like a duct, and a sewer pipe ought to look like a sewer pipe, and hammer ought to look like a hammer, and a telephone ought to look like either a telephone, or a Star Trek communicator.

> How does Perl put the focus onto the creativity of the programmer? Very simple. Perl is humble. It doesn't try to tell the programmer how to program. It lets the programmer decide what rules today, and what sucks. It doesn't have any theoretical axes to grind. And where it has theoretical axes, it doesn't grind them. Perl doesn't have any agenda at all, other than to be maximally useful to the maximal number of people. To be the duct tape of the Internet, and of everything else. You've heard the joke, I'm sure. How is duct tape like the Force? It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

> Let me state my beliefs about this in the strongest possible way. The very fact that it's possible to write messy programs in Perl is also what makes it possible to write programs that are cleaner in Perl than they could ever be in a language that attempts to enforce cleanliness. The potential for greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

I love this attitude, and I think it's very hackeresque, so yeah, it's nice to see it upvoted and discussed on Hacker News.
There are a number of English-speaking, self-identifying ISIS members who post regularly in /r/JihadInFocus. /u/thelord4444 is one and /u/AnsarAlKhilafah is another. I wouldn't be the least surprised to find out it was about them.
Since the symbol looks like an E, it replaces the E in Tesla and the previous models were named S and X.

Shouldn't this really be the model E and not 3?
That AND prison sentences.
TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington acquires EU-Startups ($2.5M) and moves to Berlin
I read an article in the WSJ saying the Model 3 will be steel based instead of Al based like its bigger siblings. Heavier vehicle..

* Article title is "A Lot Riding on Tesla's Model 3 Unveiling"
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INIT isn't new in Perl 6, although I believe applying it to expressions within a line of code rather than to blocks is.
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I've actually been thinking about doing the same thing in a side project of my own, and while I think you're somewhat correct, I don't think this is all necessarily attributable to affinities for symmetry.

For instance, if you convey a concept, and then show the derivation of the equation for that - the derivation mostly does not matter in the communication of the concept. Sure it's important to understand this, thus why we always have the derivation, but often it adds cognitive weight that distracts from the more germane understanding of the material (so keen authors will try and be elegant about the complicated things, skipping steps and keeping as much on one page).

It takes up cognitive load, and often a different type of load than the big picture. By collapsing the content, you get back to the more pure "short version" of the material and you can presume to understand or trust the more complicated bits that are hidden away.
Except that some people are.

Most such people just don't run big services like Reddit.
I don't think so. What really matters is the information that is being replicated. In the case of humanity, that information is encoded in our DNA and in our artifacts. But the planet exists independently of any information that is encoded on or in it, so I don't think it would be fair to say that the planet has reproduced. But it's arguable.
What a mess. This has nothing to do with Theranos's "nano" technology. This is about Theranos botching standard tests performed with standard commercial equipment, and then not reporting their errors.

Much medical lab practice includes running known test samples through the process regularly to check the test. They skipped a lot of that. Many things can potentially go wrong. They did. Expired reagents, freezers at wrong temperatures, failure to do regular maintenance, patient tests run on machines that were reporting errors... Some of the technicians hadn't completed medical technician training, but were doing complex tests. The summary: "Overall, over 21% of QC samples on all devices had values greater than 2 SDs". So many results were way off, and they weren't catching that.

Those are for standard tests on standard machines. The results for Theranos' "Edison" machine were worse. As in more than 10x more variation than standard techniques.

This isn't even the FDA. This is the Center for Medicare Services checking up on a company to which they paid a lot of money.

WSJ: "“This is the first time that we’ve actually seen data from the Theranos instrument, and it’s as bad as one would have worried it would be,” said Stephen Master, associate professor of pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. “Based on this data, it’s hard for me to believe that they went live with this instrument and tested patient specimens on it.”

"The inspection report said Theranos didn’t notify doctors treating patients potentially affected by the erroneous results until mid-November, or seven weeks after the inspectors first identified the problems."

"The lab directors during the period of the survey no longer hold any position within the lab. The new lab director..."

This looks like the "move fast and break things" crowd trying to run a medical lab.
Hmm looks like the Bezier equivalent to "the NURBS Book "http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783540615453. Understandable math, good drawings and pseudocode. Great for a medicore developer like me. Now I only need a book "From Bezier to Nurbs and back" and I'm all done.
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I think the main idea can be summarized pretty simply. The most important next step towards general intelligence is creating a learning algorithm that can solve a sufficiently general class of problems without much tweaking by humans, and it couldn't hurt to list out the properties such an algorithm would have to have.
"Perl gives you enough rope to you .." cit. Larry Wall. It is cause Perl is very expressive. I usually write code even my boss can read, and looks trivial remember Perl is inspired on natural languuages. On the other hand you can write very cryptic code, in every language, but Perl can be very tricky: use comments for the future you.

Learning Perl was a great excercise, after that I could learn JavaScript really easy not only cause they are so similar but cause Perl and its culture teaches you about programming. It is a milestone.
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This is understandable, since each control point affects the curve globally it is very difficult to get all the points in the correct position at once, particularly when the curve becomes higher order. Using NURBS is much more intuitive as using a particular knot will allow for specific local control.
There is this one I created. Please use that
I own a Model S and have clocked 23k miles on it over the last year, most of which on long roadtrips.

I love it. The car mostly drives itself between superchargers, and the SCs are usually next to coffee shops or restaurants. I don't mind getting up and stretching / having a drink every few hours.

But if minimizing recharging/refueling is your main priority, yeah, you can't beat ICE.
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Show HN: April fool pranks by companies
A list of 2016 pranks(Keep adding more)

https://googleblog.blogspot.in/2016/03/cardboard-plastic.html

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/03/express-yourself-with-emoji-in-smart-reply.html

http://ubr.to/1SDMMDK

https://www.furlenco.com/package-groups/devd-49a

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/117605734?trk=jobs_biz_prem_srch

http://www.zoomcar.com/offer/self-drive-auto
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I don't think that's a fair comparison. Even I could go put $1k down for a Model 3 and then renege when they start shipping. But the Nissan Leaf sales are buying a whole car.
The typing isn't the bad part...you're going to spend more time reading the code than writing it, and it definitely helps readability. But, I do find I have a hard time keeping enough of Perl 6 in my head to make sense of what I'm reading. I believe this is because it's so new to me, even though I've written and read Perl 5 or many years. But, it also seems intimidatingly large as languages go.

Anyway, I think I'm sympathetic to where you're coming from; Perl 6 is challenging looking. We may disagree about why. But, I think I like the Unicode enough to consider it a net positive for readability, even though I also think it makes for a very broad and deep language that will need ages to properly wrap ones head around. But, then again, if a language isn't big and broad, a big and broad ecosystem develops anyway (see JavaScript and so-called "JavaScript fatigue" for a prime example of that), so there's still a tremendous amount to grok before being really productive and literate in the language.
This seems fairly obvious but it's good to have it confirmed as I'm 60 now. I usually cycle about 100 miles a week and I'm glad I'm not wasting my time!
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IMO the best way to move to the next generation of dependencies is through tooling.

Instead of ignoring node_modules in source control, why don't we commit it and allow the tooling to handle upgrades?

Disclaimer: I haven't thought about the implications of committing external packages to your own source control at all. I'm guessing I'm missing something.
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