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Well, we also have to thank C for the set back in optimizing compilers.

Fran Allen. In Coders at Work (pp. 501-502):

--- Begin Quote ---

-Seibel-: When do you think was the last time that you programmed?

-Allen-: Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization.

The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue. The motivation for the design of C was three problems they couldn't solve in the high-level languages: One of them was interrupt handling. Another was scheduling resources, taking over the machine and scheduling a process that was in the queue. And a third one was allocating memory. And you couldn't do that from a high-level language. So that was the excuse for C.

-Seibel-: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels?

-Allen-: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve.

By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are... basically not taught much anymore in colleges and universities.

--- End Quote ---
Kernel is my new home;
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In a word where most new code is JavaScript, just use auto everywhere. It will be OK.
It has some additional metadata like popularity and activity as well as tracking their trends. Also, you can compare different libs.
~50B a year is chump change.

US retirement assets hit 208 Trillion.

http://www.pionline.com/article/20130626/ONLINE/130629908/ic...
Sorry - I was being annoying. I do find the use of Duh amusing tho. It reminds me of my children and then me adding duh to the end of their names - that's very annoying but it cured them of their affliction. ;)
http://plot.ly does everything I've ever wanted and more with pretty good API. The fact that I can use the same API first for doing data exploration in python or R and then when publishing the results to the web is a nice added bonus.
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I think this is the sort of view that he has problems with. It shows that you haven't understood any of his actual issues. It is a mindset thing as much as just C++ being `unhelpful`.

Not that it is in the posted email but one of his issues is that on-one actually understands C++, but everyone thinks they do.
My home "server" still has one of its original drives from 2006 (part of a raidz2, so when it fails I'll just replace it).
>a good idea for jobs where worker impairment presents an imminent physical danger

When I was in school some of the bus drivers were drunk, stoned or tripping on LSD. It really was a lot like the bus driver in The Simpsons.

Back then truckers would do the same and stay awake driving for days; some of the stories I've heard make me wonder how they ever survived long enough to get clean.

>criminal background checks

I know of a woman who became a school bus aide after a background check and she was in prison for attempted murder and human trafficking so I don't put a lot of confidence in these preventing employment, only will cut down on applications.
So... You're telling us Snowden isn't guilty of treason. All he did was leak CONFIDENTIAL files...
Machine translation is so bad that I can't get excited.
‘We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’, it ‘censors’, it ‘abstracts’, it ‘masks’, it ‘conceals’. In fact power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. The individual and the knowledge that may be gained of him belong to this production’

-- Foucault
Yeah, haha, you can put 1l, 2l and 1.5l bottles in front of the candidate and tell him to pick and drink correct one :P
I wonder how effective systems like https://cvdazzle.com/ are against this. Will we all be putting on masks or face-paint in the future when we go outside?
You watched the Onkalo documentary 'Into Eternity' ? They have similar problems, except for nuclear waste. A hard sci-fi leaking into the real world. Very odd. https://youtu.be/HeVPMzJOFrQ
This deserves a blog post.
I understand your point, but the phenomenon you're describing is essentially just curation. Social media has simply shifted curation from established sources (newspapers, critics, etc.) to everyone.

I would question whether the solution is less curation.
that is a, frankly, insane contortion of logic that ignores an enormous amount of history in the south regarding housing, education, and racial equity.

These problems started years ago with forced segregation codified in law and have never been solved. To say that they are self-segregating because the law no longer compels them to is not the same as there being no barriers. What you are reading as self-segregation (and this is partially the writer's fault) is the paragraphs about 'both sides like it this way'. What is telling is the reasons both groups give. The white/Cleveland parents give reasons like "just leave us alone. Maybe that’s because I’m a sentimental fool, but I love Cleveland High School and I don’t want it to go away" while the black/East side parents give reasons like "[he] is likely to be East Side’s valedictorian this year, [and] wouldn’t have a shot at that distinction at Cleveland High 'no matter how good his grades are.'"

>white families who "don’t want to be in a small minority,"

Oh really? why not?
Can anyone point me in the direction of algorithms and papers involved in implementing facial recognition over a fairly large audience.
> That is not what "Open Source" means.

"Open Source" means different things to different people and not everyone accepts the OSI definition, there are even people who are angry at ESR for grabbing the phrase for himself and making his definition the most popular one.
how many passengers are actually flying between LA and SF right now?

Good question. About 3.4 million per year (I think that's both ways based on other sources) according to this:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/536977/domestic-air-route...
http://datpiff.com is another good source for mixtapes, but it's cool that he took the time to clean these up, catalog them and throw them up on the archive.
I don't think that interpretation jibes with the text:

Assertion:

"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases."

Rationale:

"Historic responsibility [that is, the later judgment of historians] has to make up for the want of legal responsibility [that is, legal consequences during the rulers' lifetimes]. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

He then goes on to rail against people that hold power:

"Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."

Without the idea that power tends to corrupt those in power, there would be no reason to presume that they did wrong by default or to say that people who exercise influence and authority are bad men.
I'm not the one who made the claim, but there is a much larger starting corpus with more copies of each individual work, and better institutions dedicated to preserving works and better preservation technology. And a lot better geographic spread of those works in modern English than for any language from 2000 years ago.

So it's not all that hard to see why one might make that prediction.
> In the last few years the Supreme Court said the Voting Rights Act was no longer valid

That is not what they said. They did not overturned the VRA.

What they did was overturned a section which labeled specific states and counties that were subject to increased scrutiny and protection, on the grounds that demographics have changed in the last 50 years, and that now that list is out of date and includes too many districts which no longer need the increased protection. They noted that the law could and should be amended to specify districts which previously were not in need of protection and now are, but that is outside the role of the Supreme Court, so they left it up to Congress to fix that.
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I have hope that this will change. Because more and more people live a fake life on social media.

Some people go crazy and share everything, but more and more people share less[^1] and if they share something, it's only something that holds together their "clean image".

1: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11387604/facebook-personal-...
The japanese version will be pretty terrible, I'd imagine. Too much homophones and ambiguous wording. "sounandayo!" = そうなんだよ "that's right!" = 遭難だよ "it's an accident!"
Me2. Release it.
Chicago's at least large enough to justify having multiple schools.
I recently tried to print a custom phone cover, I brought the .png on my phone but BT refused to activate. I ended up sharing it through Viber with the cover guy.
It's not a phenomenon unique to America.
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This really isn't just an American thing. There are plenty of xenophobic European countries, and Japan and China are awful this way as well.
Can't say I blame them either. For a one-person company the minimum fee for a good web design shop might well be a month of revenue. And Facebook is perfectly acceptable these days for consumer focused small businesses like restaurants, salons, bars and similar small-time retail/service business.
cf Petraeus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/penta...

> Specifically, Petraeus acknowledged providing eight notebooks containing highly classified material to his biographer, Paula Broadwell, in the waning days of his Army career.

And yet

> In April, after a lengthy investigation by the FBI that disgraced the onetime military hero, Petraeus pleaded guilty in federal court in North Carolina to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials. He was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $100,000.
There are some pretty crazy stories online about what TPP is like internally.

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Employee-Review-The-Phoe...

I guess it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that a large healthcare software company is horrifyingly dysfunctional.
Right, but there's nothing "modern" about templates. Those have been a disaster for compile times forever.

C++98 with no Boost is an awful language that nobody should want to go back to. It's one where you could legitimately prefer C99, despite its lack of RAII and other conveniences. Actual modern C++ is a great language to write, though the compile times haven't really improved.
You can inspect the element and delete it to gain full access to the article. Lots of sites like to put a noscript div up that obscures the article, but the full text is underneath. No ajax trickery here.
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Title: Elsevier buys SSRN

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719047
A few months ago I recompiled a VB5 app for the first time since it was last built in 1998, it has been used daily. I didn't build this, just inherited it over 7 years ago and have never needed to look at it.

Every once in a while it would miss some files in its directory listings. Took me forever to figure out that it only occurred when the new SAN was under heavy load and took longer than half a second to return a directory listing.

I laughed when I came across this:

Problems Using Intrinsic File System Controls https://support.microsoft.com/EN-US/kb/196141

SYMPTOMS:
When you are using the intrinsic Visual Basic file system controls (for example, DriveListBox, DirListBox, FileListBox), some or all of your files are not listed. This usually occurs when you are trying to access files on a network server, but can occur locally under some circumstances.

CAUSE:
... These controls are old technology. They were not designed for, nor tested with, some of the new operating and network system software. ...

I just made it sleep for a second and then refresh its directory listings, sigh.. not gonna rewrite this thing now..
But which is more important?
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(re 10 minute compile times)

> This is simply a bogus statement

I work on a C++ project and believe me, 10 minute compile times would be great :)
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I could be wrong but I'm sure that once the relevant level (actual calls) is reached research proposals about the security impact of quantum computing will be very welcome. I wouldn't be shocked if a couple of research projects on post-quantum cryptography would be funded. In fact I'll go ahead and say there will be a clause in all calls along the lines of "ethical, security, privacy and legal issues and social impact has to be outlined in the proposal"

The way I read it is: "Other people will research it, EU needs to research it as well" and that's the security benefit (not being behind on what could be a core technology with security and other implications).
Thank you for more or less responding to my comment elsewhere in this post. I've watched the first two vids, looking forward to the rest of your links.

Diagnostically RDoC (Research Domain Criteria) looks like a welcome overhaul of the increasingly derided DSM.

Them's a lot of circuits: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-priorities/rdoc/units/circ...
From my experience and interactions with the LLK group at MIT, they have been very careful to position Scratch as a creative, story-telling tool, where the connecting of blocks is just one form of expression. Making your creations come to life through art and logic and sharing with the community is at the core of the Scratch. You actually won't find the words "coding" or "programming" on the homepage (https://scratch.mit.edu/). I find that any understanding of rudimentary programming tends to be side-effect of trying to make things work :-)

Here are a few good links that might help.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/12/11/458782056/a-kids-c...

Mitch Resnick's TED talk from 2012:
https://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_...
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> It's an academic pursuit, but the ancient greek philosophers are still readable in their original language.

What little of them survived, and only because for 2000 years, people made a deliberate effort of keeping the language translatable and the texts around. Etruscan or even Egyptian texts of the same period, not so much (the Rosetta stone was a chance find). Even with Ancient Greek, we're limited to a very, very small fraction of the original corpus.

> I find it plausible that a much, much larger corpus of text written in present-day-English will survive the next 10000 years than that which has survived the past 2000

Between copyright laws trying to punish people for preserving texts, DRM attempting to make it impossible; and storage moving to very ephemeral media (paper easily survives centuries, magnetic or optical storage maybe decades), I'm not that optimistic that our data will survive the next mass disruption on the scale of the collapse of the Roman Empire.
I'm quite serious. What's your concern - that it is unrealistic, or that we should stick with mostly-static, single-threaded web-pages forever?
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Not only at Zipcar :)
My organization does thin clients and I'm a big fan. It would be nice to have smaller quieter and more energy efficient ones, but I'm sure it was cheaper to keep what we have. I never have problems with software not being up to date or something going wrong. Just new problems like if there are network issues I can't do any work (was still a problem before moving to thin clients). I also like that I can just use my computer at home and log in and have everything set up like I'm at work.
Should we fear AI, or just the people who write about it?
Mogadishu actually has a functioning local government, with (mostly) functioning utilities, telecom, etc. No need to pick on it.
I star anything that looks potentially useful when I come across it. The search function on GitHub's stars page only looks at the repo name and description, and manually looking through a few hundred starred repos is a bore, so I made this.

It was also a learning exercise for building a server-side Swift app using the Vapor web framework (https://github.com/qutheory/vapor). Source is here: https://github.com/mjmsmith/starredsearch
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Sensible, understandable functions can be assembled into complicated, incomprehensible programs in exactly the same way that the sensible, understandable operators of a programming language can.
I was about to post the same link. Very informative video and enjoyable to watch. I love how they say that North Korea is just next to America.
Better structure, different (better/smaller) deps, and much different code I'll never do now that it works already. I'm thinking of re-doing the whole project once it can be called a `full` version, but that probably won't happen as 'hey, if it works...'.
What I'm more afraid of, is that if you say that to regular people, they'll answer "So, what?" and keep not thinking of any their online actions.
Previous discussion (yesterday) with 90 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712197
12,000 isn't a small town, it's a small city.

The school I went to had a town/surrounding farmers population of about 1200 (600 in town, guessing for the rural area). It functioned just fine with ~35 students to a grade, ~17 students to a class (each grade had a "band/not-band" schedule).
This follows the large profile in Bloomberg in Dec 2015 on George Hotz autonomous driving plans:

"George Hotz is taking on Google and Tesla by himself" http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...
Here's a great example of radioactive decay in use as a source of entropy[0]. Essentially, each component of a nuclear weapon derives its own private key at time of assembly from the radiation of the weapon itself, and saves the public keys of all the other components; thereafter, it'll only respond to signed communication from those other components.

Basically, it removes the possible attack vector of replacing any command-and-control circuitry with your own, suborned, components.

[0] - https://www.llnl.gov/news/lawrence-livermore-scientist-devel...
Human-readable letters carved into granite plates with a 72-point font will probably last a million years, even a billion years if you're lucky.

The real compromise, of course, is between information density and longevity. Your carvings need to be large enough to survive the blurring effect of time, but then you can't store as many bits per square inch.
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I don't think I was clear enough on how I imagine this working. I wouldn't have it work where you can look at the browser history of any of your friends, or as a feed.

Instead, I would use any of my social-news aggregators normally, but if I end up on a page that a friend has also ended up on, It would be fun to be able to see that, and maybe I could leave tiny comments scattered around the web, visible only to my peers who come across it, and we can annotate together.

That makes me think about Genius. I remember seeing them work on this a bit, but it was a couple years ago IIRC.
In my experience, titles that are seen as clickbait or overly editorial are often edited. I suspect that the first order problem is seen as clickbait/editorializing and verbatim use a lesser given the relevance of titles to the HN front page.
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Actually, a 340$ quote from a US (or similar economies, like EU, Canada, AU, NZ) is a big red flag. No consulting business can really thrive charging that low, especially for non-recurring work.

It is quite literally not worth my time to get out of bed for less than 500$ unless the client is a frequently recurring client.
I'm from Scotland, and on the rare occassions time I need to phone a US voice activated phone line (e.g. Expedia.com's), I have to put on a ridiculous American accent for the system to understand me.

This is a hard problem.
Depends on how you think of power: a privilege or great responsibility?
Power corrupts those who think they deserve it.

"Two of my cousins and I entered the apartment of the Prophet (ﷺ). One of them said: Messenger of Allah, appoint us rulers of some lands that the Almighty and Glorious God has entrusted to thy care. The other also said something similar. He said: We do not appoint to this position one who asks for it nor anyone who is covetous for the same."

"If a dog dies hungry on the banks of the River Euphrates, Umar will be responsible for dereliction of duty." Umar Ibn al Khattab
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This would be the right time for arXiv to start accepting quantitative social science papers. Most papers at SSRN fall under that label. My guess is that most authors would happily move their papers from SSRN to arXiv in the blink of an eye.
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It's a vicious cycle. In a world where corruption is rewarded, you are chastised explicitly or implicitly for passing up the opportunity to get ahead by participating in systemic abuse of power. I can't find the precise research that illuminated how identifying a cheater (who is perceived either as part of the community, or an outsider), can influence the rest of the class to cheat at tests or not. But this infographic[1] identifies peer pressure as the #1 reason for cheating in college, and seems to back it up with survey and research evidence.

1: http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/cheating/
I bet I have most people beat here, especially with web software.

I released the first content management system for websites back in about 1995. It was a fully database driven system with different post types, much like WordPress in design, and editable page content.

About 15 years ago, I wrote an entire web-based system for managing an online grocery delivery company. The whole site runs off of version 2 of that content management system, which had lots of the version 1 code in it, which is now 21 years old.

And yes, they are still running their whole business off of that unmodified system today! I should have put them onto a monthly maintenance plan. ;-)

Sadly, I hear that they will be finally replacing it soon, putting an end to that legacy code.