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This was written when someone just said to you

> When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
> 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability,
> it's BS.

no reason to rage when some tells you to change your whole project because he doesn't like your choices you can ignore him but sometimes you don't (he should have skipped the email), This isn't C++ bashing more than just being angry someone told you change your design because C isn't easy to handle strings with(Said in the emails).This is just someone getting angry because you are making him look guilty(in his mind) for not making a different decision when he clearly doesn't even need to do this work and if you don't like his work don't use it man, Sometimes people get angry for small reasons we all do but some get angry more than others but doesn't mean the angry bashing is his opinion or what reality is.
C/C++ or whatever isn't really compared here.
Amen to this (it took me over a decade to realize I didn't actually want to be a professor, but an engineer): Hagopian, she says, is like a lot of people who work in the sciences, "geniuses with instrumentation in tech, [but who] don't want to be professors and give talks." She hopes that these "true heroes" can be celebrated in a more public way and their contributions recognized as being key to scientific progress. "I needed a whole book to explain the heroism of someone unusual," she said.
It's funny that hyperloop proponents both argue that it is better for HSRs role, but that it's main purpose is to replace airline flights.

HSRs main justification is reducing the increase in long-range intrastate auto trips.

Also, whether an air travel or auto trip replacement, the hyperloop paper relied for its low cost on a route that doesn't have the transit connections to either where people are from or where they are trying to go be useful, whereas HSR both connects population centers and includes investments in improving connecting regional transit around the termini (and other stations). Hyperloop aims for a much smaller goal than HSR, and even at that has an alignment which makes it useless for the goal.
If this app can do it with 70% accuracy, then Google, Facebook, and Microsoft's tech (which may not be currently used for this) can probably do it with 90%+ accuracy.
You're welcome. RDoC was tactically proposed just before DSM5 was published [1]

For comparing RDoC and DSM there are some good books published recently:

The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U4JLKM4

Alternative Perspectives on Psychiatric Validation: DSM, IDC, RDOC, and Beyond http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Y355QZC/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Domain_Criteria
This seems quite plausible. SSRN has been a good thing, but over many years it hasn't managed anywhere near the change and furor produced by Scihub. If open access brands are going to be devalued by universal access, then it's a great time to sell.
>> “With this algorithm, you can search through a billion photographs in less than a second from a normal computer,”

With Intel Core i7 5960X (238,310 MIPS at 3.0 GHz), it only takes 238 instructions for a photo?
This is a Wikipedia article and as such not "news," in my opinion. Reddit is a better place to post this type of content.
>>As if you have so more experience and skills than him in the language? He's not some newbie trying C++ for the first time...

Not much experience. Just 15 years writing C++.

>>If the tool is a programming language, then its syntax, modularization and other features absolutely affect the code being a mess or not.

In any language there's the idiomatic way of doing things. There are designs to which the language lends itself nicely and there are designs to which it doesn't lend itself. There are badly written code in any language. It's up to the programmer to choose designs and paradigms that work well with the language.
Even though that is the predominant interpretation of "open source" in the tech community, I think one could argue that the term "open source" has no legal meaning (outside of a license agreement, that is). So for the purposes of this argument (code w/o a license), the term is meaningless.
I'm curious. How difficult it is to be promoted on ProductHunt?
> you're talking from the perspective of an experienced lisper.

If I am an experienced Common Lisper, it is because I was once a noob Common Lisper and already not bothered by syntax.
Maybe that's because I already had experience with several other languages, which have all some superficial negative aspects.
That being said, I prefer to use CL but I don't mind using Clojure.

> either you deal with complexity or your users will have to.

I did not say the complexity was necessary present in one case or another. Biased as I am, I see no complexity with a simple, regular usage of parenthesis. Brackets and braces are good in the eye of other kind of people, sure.

> that is the whole point of the thread - why hasn't lisp caught on, and i'm an example of both failure and success in that regard.

Well, should we generalize from your example then, when it is not appropriate to do so in my case?

Besides, I was mostly responding to your posts about literal values.
I was kind of hoping this would be an article about how much the English like potatoes. ;-) Nevertheless, interesting article.
They must be improving - a few minutes ago on HN this headline read they did it with 49% accuracy.
What if retail stores take your picture and then match it against your credit card at POS and then automatically identify you in the future as well? I can't imagine this is too far off, if it's not already happening.
I've done something similar for years, all my files are mounted on my drive with sshfs. Whether I'm at home or work everything is available to me and when I'm done I log off my VPN and all my sensitive documents unmount and "disappear", what's left is just a few applications... Sublime, chrome etc... Works great.
I did a trivia game for a Mattel subsidiary in 1998 that was still running in 2008 on the website. It's not there any longer but I don't know when it was taken down. A lot of the games we developed were in shockwave/lingo and flash, so I imagine most of those came down with the arrival of the iPhone. The trivia game was just a Perl/CGI/MySQL thing so who knows how long it would have run. Was probably a security risk after a few years though, as it was my first RDBMS app.
It honestly may be more productive to operate under the mindset of "My private information that is acquirable by a cursory examination of me (this includes face, which is obviously publicly visible) will inevitably find its way online in a way outside my control. What do I do given this reality?"
with deference to venomsnake, a simpler explanation is that people are to cheap to pay for a github subscription and instead of keeping private code private just don't share the code. These folks aren't publishing code without a license, they aren't even publishing code with intentionality period.
Attempting to merge the schools is where you will see how this is not "natural" segregation. I lived in a town of 38,000 people for five years that had schools that had "naturally" segregated. It was a culture shock for me, having just bought a house for $50k that I figured I could flip and sell for twice that because one block down the street similar homes were going for that much.

After a couple of years of working on the house, I learned that it wouldn't matter how much I put into it. Friends and locals informed me that I had bought a house on the "black" street. The homes one street over were on the white street and that when I had kids, they would be going to the black school and soon "come home talking like them."

I soon learned that most of the rural south is "naturally segregated" like this... which is a political way of saying that racists have naturally let their racist inclinations dictate the school district lines. One time, the city council tried to move the school district lines to mix the schools up a bit more. Protesters, all white, came out en mass and squashed the motion. When I published a letter to my local paper advocating moving the district lines, I received numerous racist letters in response.

We are taught in history classes that the North won the Civil War, but those classes leave out the fact that the South won the insurgency that followed, which is why there are so many monuments to Confederates in Southern states and why--as a woman from Mississippi once told me when complaining about Northern culture, "Our nrs know their place." I don't know what the solution to this is except for slow, persistent cultural progress.
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Exploring the Psychology of Wealth, ‘Pernicious’ Effects of Economic Inequality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuqGrz-Y_Lc
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Same "explosion" happens when he crushes a book with the press. Wrecks a camera. "Mayhem" as he says:
https://youtu.be/PmvKlnhMjUw?t=1m55s
If you want a 'toy'/practice project, writing a multi-threaded work queue (multiple producers, multiple consumers) is a good _relatively_ simple one (the API is simple and self-contained, anyway), to get your feet wet with concurrency. In real production work, you'd probably use an existing implementation for your platform of choice, but that's true of many of your examples too (few of us write an OS or compiler for production work! Probably more of us have had to write a concurrent work queue compared to an OS, heh.)
It's likely using a nearest neighbor or tree search; it might take a billion instructions to process a single photo and another billion to do the nearest neighbor search.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to write a client to enable human players.
With all due respect to Linus, this mail chain is just unreasoned argument. He vaguely mentions poor memory management and nothing else which is faulty in C++. It would have been helpful to reason out his choices then go on tirade of slang.
Sure, that's a good sign, but it's still undone by someone else who posts a photo or recording of you. If I recall correctly, facebook used to (maybe still does) solicit users to "report" anybody who is not using their real name on the site. When will facebook start soliciting/rewarding users for uploading photos of others? How much does that guy in your class value your personal privacy?
That's also assuming it isn't maliciously correlated to produce an output that after XOR leaks secret entropy.
It is worth noting that this is mostly no longer true, as the size of the "underground economy" (lol) has skyrocketed and the sums of money being discussed are far bigger. And contrary to what some may think, the risk reward ratio has certainly gone in the hackers favor.

The article mentions some hacker selling 8 million credit cards for $200000, nowadays it'd be at least 10 times that.

There simply does not exist many comparable "jobs" for those capable of pulling this off, where can you maintain such an income working couple of hours a day from a FS hotel in the Maldives?
Then again, his latest project, a scuba diving application, is written in C++.
ah your siding on the lisp machine vs todays hardware arch. I think if the lisp hardware architecture has significant advantages we`ll see that emerging in "soft cpu`s" on fpga`s. Particularly as the Xeon/FPGA gear gathers steam.
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Because the comment suggests, without offering any evidence, that there is a coordinated or automated large-scale effort underway to carry out the previous comment's plan.
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I get you.

My point: JavaScript, it's ecosystem and community are bad enough to be proprietary. It's the new skurge of the web browser and what do people do? Make 'applications' with it.
From the paper linked above:

one cannot, for example, weight a coin so that it is substantially more likely to land “heads”
than “tails” when flipped and caught in the hand in the usual manner. Coin tosses can be
biased only if the coin is allowed to bounce or be spun rather than simply flipped in the air.
It would also be interesting to look at the inverse relationship - how many average stars does a "licensed" repository have vs an "unlicensed" one. I suspect that you're right that repositories with licenses will have more stars, and thus more widely used.

Another interesting metric would be lines of code (licensed vs. unlicensed). This would probably make your argument more obvious... more useful repositories will have many more lines of code than unuseful ones; and thus also more likely to have a license.

I believe that the author may have just re-discovered the concept of the long tail, reproduced in source code repositories.
Worked on Workspaces at AWS for about a year, on the software clients in particular. I think their product has potential but for the moment is limited by some underlying technology decisions made in the interest of a quicker go-to-market.

I would not be surprised if at some point soon their underlying tech became all first-party and we saw some significant improvement. There are plenty of resources throughout AWS that with some work could be composed into a better stack than the 3P pieces and protocols they use currently.

I don't think I've disclosed anything here that isn't already public knowledge, past my own wild speculation based on zero knowledge of internal workings since my departure. If anyone has any questions that I can answer without endangering myself to NDA issues, I'd be glad to answer about Workspaces.

I think it's a great product for those who benefit from it; I ended up leaving the team because while the technological challenges were interesting, I couldn't put myself in any potential users' shoes, and therefore really couldn't drum up much organic passion of my own.
Well you can't do that. You can only tag someone with an account.
There was an article recently on that, light on actual technical content though.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/russian-startup-n-te...

http://ntechlab.com/

http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11491264
We're glad it's working for you.

Sincerely,

NSA
Having power is a requirement of being corrupt, by the definition. If you didn't have power, you wouldn't have the leverage to corrupt the system in the first place.

>Corruption: dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery
Agreed with everything except "The consumer's fault." It's the data age now; information about you will make its way into the global repository without any direct action on your part.

- If you're a professional, someone is providing a way for your customers to audit interactions with you

- If you're a driver, someone is tracking your car's movements

- If you buy products, someone is tracking you bought them

- If you ever communicate online, someone has logged that communication

- If you're ever seen in public, someone can tag your face

... and after all this, if you piss an individual off enough, that individual can create a pastebin and drop as much of your personal info on there as they care to.

We're already past the event horizon of private (easily-gleaned) information staying private; it's time to re-organize the solution space around the assumption that the information is public.
CollectionViewSource Is Crazy Useful for Binding to Observable Collections(2013)
I think having a website: http://www.noisli.com/ where people can see what the program does without downloading the app is great.
Yes, along with his boss Carmen Ortiz.
Computers don't really have the flat memory model today. They're networked cores with coherent distributed memory wrapped in a simple API that has very high performance variability.

Any kind of performant multithreaded work today has to treat their motherboard as such unless they want significant performance hits.
It's not doing anything where performance is an issue.
Rust’s borrow system is actually not the key part; if it were just that, then yes, it would be purely a complication performance would be the only important part about it when comparing it with garbage collection. No: the key part is the ownership model, that an object is owned in precisely one location. Borrowing sits on top of and fits into that, not the other way round.

The ownership model is the part that I don't myself yearning for in other languages I work in such as Python and JavaScript.
No problem, you had about a 99.99% chance of being right as most slideshows are exactly what you described.
Exactly. We cannot have any expectation of privacy in public and likewise, we cannot have any expectation of privacy in online social media.
It may be because you are simply stating that it is being done without any references to actual projects which might back up and add some value to your statement.
The thing is, under a certain age everyone is doing it. When this current teenage generation grows up and gets into leadership positions - especially politics, they are all going to have their entire upbringing exposed for the whole nation to see.

The few that haven't will be viewed with cynicism and will most likely not be accepted by the population.

The population will be voting for their leaders based on how they were brought up.

It is going to be quite an interesting social phenomenon to witness.
Absolutely. My entire family is from the Deep South (Southeast Georgia) dating back to James Oglethorpe. So yeah I've seen this over the years.

The situation in Mississippi is what you said - a small city does not need two high schools. But that's how they segregate along racial lines. And yes I know the one school is mixed 50/50 with the bet that the school board is probably dominated by the whites.

Things have definitely changed over the years though. I've seen the changes myself with my extended family (I grew up in the midwest). More and more counties in Georgia now go by with one high school or even setting up one to serve more than one county. This is happening mostly due to dwindling population and financial realities.

But we still have a ways to go.
You mean when he was elected in 1966?

I thought we were talking more recently than 50 years ago..
I love that this idea never goes away (in my first real career job, I supported actual dumb terminals that we replaced with desktops). It never seems to take off either, but it's always just about to. I don't mean to criticize! WorkSpaces sounds pretty great.
I've always thought it'd be great to have a mask/muzzle that turns a babies cry into laughing or something else more pleasant while seated next to them on the plane.
There's a reason I stopped associating with that scene/site years ago. Almost everyone in it is toxic and stuck in their rebellious teenage years. Case in point: http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,21797.html

The newer versions are called bass, and you can compare yourself here: http://byuu.org/tool/bass/

There is full documentation of every possible command, the code is readable by human beings (eg variables are named words instead of single letter abbreviations, C++ is used for more than just the class keyword, there's more than one source code file, I learned how to use the spacebar key in my code, etc), it has a real recursive descent parser that builds a proper abstract syntax tree for evaluations, it has a macro system that supports recursion and conditional evaluation, supports multiple architectures instead of just one, allows the user to dynamically add/change the actual opcode mnemonics used by the assembler (useful as the SNES has games using several strange coprocessors), has no known bugs (as opposed to xkas' that allow native code execution), etc. xkas was written when I had about a years' worth of real programming experience, bass was after over a decade's worth of experience; including experience using assemblers to create code.

If you want to know why RHDN users threw a fit about it; it's because I used // as a comment delimiter instead of ; and decided to add a closing marker to defines so you could say "lda {macro}_b", which was impossible with the old "lda !macro_b" because it'd look for "macro_b" instead of "macro".

That's really it. That's the whole of why many people there say they'll never use it. The syntax is 99% compatible otherwise. I could link you to posts saying as much, but I really don't feel like browsing their site any more than I have to.

SMWC's case is very different: they're all hacking the same game, so they require 100% backward-compatibility with a decade's worth of game patches; and they only make the problem worse as time goes on. This constraint would not apply to new games started on from scratch.
How to Design a Smart City
Is there any possibility of insuring that Workspaces will be accessible to users of assistive technology? I use a WIndows PC because that's what has the best screen reader support, a quick google search didn't turn anything up about running a screen reader in the workspace and having it's sound piped back to the thin client.
Whoops, off by 30!
The problem is that the school that's nearly 100% black has problems like:

> East Side students didn't even science textbooks to bring home at night; there aren’t enough to go around. They don’t have lockers, either. Sanders and his classmates carry their books around in their backpacks all day.

While this article is focusing on racial balance, the problem with segregation is more fundamental. Thanks to the historic (especially in cities like this) difference in wealth between blacks and whites, the historically black schools tend to get shorted in the resource distribution. The white families have the money for booster clubs, they hold political sway within the community. Their kids certainly have textbooks to take home.
You would need to somehow convince the population that looks are no longer important, or that somehow looking like you were a member of the band Kiss is now a popular look. It's not impossible, fashion changes all the time.