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Most standardised languages are sorts of conlangs. I can be a testimone for Turkish, where the language was cleared from persian and arabic loanwords by very oppressing revolutionary govt action. So much so that one generation had difficult time talking to grandparents, they say.
>> The second day of L2’s appeal today was held in closed session for secret evidence to be presented to the judges by the Home Office lawyers. Neither L2 nor his lawyers are allowed to hear it.

I don't understand how UK judges accept this. I understand how the government passed the law that allows this, but I expected better of the judges.
These are all good points but I have a strong feeling of déjà-vu with another thread in these comments...
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What is your current approach if you can answer? Some kind of spatial beamforming or you must use a given recorded measurement and decompose by frequency content as best as you can?

I guess this kind of machine learning that not uses total frequency spectrum but the time-domain evolution of short-time Fourier transforms (as in the spectrogram he is painting over in the demo) has a lot of potential for acoustic source separation. For instance training the machine to recognize the particular time-frequency signature of human voice and automatically filter it from a song.
> I'm trying to think of a scenario outside of a mechanic's garage that emergency braking would ever be disabled. This should really be mandatory on all cars.

So there's an accident, and I swerve to avoid. I think I'm going to make it but the car isn't certain so it brakes, and it brakes really fucking hard. At this point who is responsible for what happens? Breaking like that fundamentally changes the behaviour of the car. If I had just braked, maybe I stop in time maybe I don't - I chose another option and it is completely valid.

The very idea of that kind of behaviour terrifies me. I'll take a 100% automated car with pleasure, but I have no interest at all in this hybrid control concept. I would turn that shit off on delivery.
The article misses an important point: It does not explain what definition of poverty all this is based on. There are some definitions like "people having less than 60% of the average real income". But's that's a very relative: If the average income is rising over the years, people defined now as "poor" may live at the same standard as the average in 1991. If that's the case I would not neccessarily consider them "poor".

So I think it would be interesting to do the same statisical breakdown but in regard to the absolute standard of living.
Then why isn't anyone running an AWS-like service focused for bandwidth-intensive applications hosted on "OVH, Hetzner, etc..."?
Who cares? This technology works for them. Key quote from the BBC version of this article [1] (the CNN one is crap)

"This system remains in use because, in short, it still works," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt Col Valerie Henderson told the AFP news agency.

I assume that IBM is happy to service the computer they are using. There's a hell of a lot of 'old' technology that we are still using that's not computing. Why freak out about old computers?

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36385839
motives were for the lulz mostly

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/need-some-advi...
I didn't know this, thank you for the link. How did the Dutch & French govn'ts have the power to sign it then?
My guess is that when it was constructed 50 years ago, the "device" was engineered with the units that were familiar or already organized into formulas to plug data into. In the early to mid 60's, simple extremely limited dedicated calculators were a new thing and hard to get. Not at all like the tech in our world we take for granted, numerical analysis was much harder to accomplish.

Of course today we have vast computation resources right under our fingertips. How hard is it to translate from one set of units to another? No doubt on issuing a report of their test results, the output will be expressed in whatever units anybody wants, no trouble at all...
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Or just convert all image links automatically. Some websites do it.
Google is too useful to not use it, But you shouldn't have to do a google search because you don't remember a command or basic functionality of a language or library.
That information should be rapidly available by the documentation.
Google should be used for troubleshooting or researching a new concept.

http://devdocs.io/offline is a great resource if you want to code offline.
Thank you for the feedback. I will check it and get back to you.
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With that program you even download an offline version of Stackoverflow. Just download Dash https://kapeli.com/dash and make all your coding docs offline available. It's really impressive for coding/working without Internet connection. UPDATE: Did not know about devdocs.io Seems like an opensource version of Dash.
All the time, as 1.2% of my monthly users is 1.15 million people (hint: that’s effectively a lot of people). People will be accessing my content and using my services with Javascript deliberately off or situationally unavailable, and they need to be able to do so. It’s defensive design.
> What's the cost and usefulness to run high speed rail between two mid-sized Romanian cities that are 60km or 100km apart?

What's the cost of building from scratch and maintaining year-on-year a road along the same line, including vehicle and operating costs, before subsidies? That is - what would it actually cost you to drive a car if your taxes weren't paying for it?

Hint - it differs for nearly every situation, and even the idea of high speed rail - 125mph or higher - is not necessarily useful in all situations. A decent commuter line with good bus links to every station is potentially more useful than a high-speed line which zips past dozens of towns.
English is the third most spoken language. There is more people speaking Spanish and almost double speaking Chinese.
More or less 1 of every 7 people in the world speaks Chinese. Should we make Chinese the lingua franca? Why is english better?
Also, there are more people speaking Spanish than English.
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I think there's an important difference between the "man, Wolfram sure likes to make everything about himself, doesn't he?" comments here and the "frist psot imagine a beowulf cluster of petrified Natalie Portman in hot grits" comments on Slashdot.

The Slashdot ones contributed nothing to discussion. They were pure group-signalling; their sole purpose was to enable the people who wrote them and the people who upvoted them to feel "I am part of the in-crowd here." (In fact, their very pointlessness was essential to that role.)

The Wolfram comments here are not irrelevant; they are pointing out something that would be worth pointing out -- if if weren't for the fact that by now almost anyone reading an HN discussion of a Wolfram post is already aware that this is what Wolfram does, all the time.

Maybe I'm wrong; maybe for some people "hahaha, Wolfram turned the death of an eminent mathematician into a chance to talk again about his own cleverness" is just an attempt at fitting in with the HN crowd, or a crass karma-farming move, or something. But it doesn't look that way. I think the people saying this are genuinely trying to contribute to the discussion, in a way that the Slashdot reflex-posters weren't.
Similar things could have been said about roads: "I would hope my tax dollars aren't spent on building roads so that it's quicker for rich car owners to travel between cities"
That's right-wing libertarianism. Libertarianism was first formulated by a French anarcho-communist named Joseph Déjacque in the late 1800's, who lambasted Proudhon (of "property is theft" fame) for not being sufficiently focused on liberty.

Right-libertarianism on the other hand was basically an attempt at reformulating the theories of Ayn Rand and von Mises to something that would allow a common from on many issues with liberal groups on the left.
Replacing safety critical systems is not cheap. Don't touch it if it works is usually good policy. Instead of "haha how outdated" how about "awesome we are still alive".

http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/677436.pdf

>Yes -The agency plans to update its data storage solutions, port expansion processors,
portable terminals, and desktop terminals by the end of fiscal year 2017.
A few words in case somebody interprets that as if Italian is an artificial language.

The drive for unification in Italy was big in 1800. The language a unified Italy would speak was decided long before because poets and writers already standardized on one of the language of Tuscany, the one of Florence. That was the "standard Italian" since 1200. Not that many people spoke it. Everybody spoke the language of it's area, sometimes not. All those languages derived from Latin but people could not easily understand each other, especially over long distances (even 30 km.) Only priests and literates had lingua francas, Latin and standard Italian.

Some samples from famous authors:

Ariosto, 1500, can be read quite easily nowadays [1]

Petrarca, 1300, is a little more difficult and it takes a little to get accustomed with. [2]

Dante, 1200, is also difficult sometimes but high school students read it with little help. [3]

[1] http://www.orlandofurioso.com/testo-completo-dei-canti/1706/...

[2] http://www.italica.it/canzoniere.html

[3] http://www.filosofico.net/ladivinacommedia.htm
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That's not the only thing you have to trust.

http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2016/05/nix-as-os-x-package-manager... is served over HTTP. Saying "Copy and paste this `curl | sh` command" allows this attack: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
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> "direct" links to an image uploaded sometimes/usually redirect to imgur page

Actually I like this. It's so stupid that people directly link to the image - I'm always interested in reading the imgur comments, and especially the text comment by the uploader.
"There's a difference between freedom of speech, and freedom to violate privacy of others."

I think that is a very dangerous way to look at thing. The right to privacy is a limitation to freedom of speech. You might think that it's a reasonable limitation in this case, but it's still a limitation and not something different.
> Neither of the cities you mention have experienced
> the sudden, massive surge in demand that SF has
> in recent memory.

They haven't? According to what? I just looked this up for Milan real quick:

SF had 350k people in 1900, and 800k in 2010[1], a growth of ~2.3x. Milan had 550k people in 1900 and 1.3 million in 2010[2], a growth of ~2.35x.

I don't understand how you think SF is the exception in this example. Both of these cities have had similar population growth, Milan slightly more actually. It seems the difference is that Milan decided to build up.

1. http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Milan
One big problem I see with many of these artificial languages is that they do not put the ease of pronunciation at the topmost priority. I think it would be interesting to make a study on what sounds can anybody produce. It is also important to study the different subtleties that people perceive as different sounds. For example in my experience the Chinese have a hard time understanding you if you mangle the different tones they use for vowels, however they completely ignore the 'length' of a tone which is very often used to distinguish words in the slavic languages.
It is named "Pasket" and it is based on symbolic execution created by machine learning by executing all possible path of a program.
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That's an excellent way to express the situation back then. Given the ease of converting results with modern technologies, it's hardly a handicap to use the Imperial units, besides doing so preserves the "feel" of the era it came from. I think that's not a shabby or minor aspect of the machine being brought back to useful life.
It doesn't put more trust in the network than NBD or NFS does. You don't access your root filesystem over a 3G connection or a flakey VPN on any platform. But, if you mount a remote filesystem that isn't root, disconnecting isn't fatal, you just have to reconnect when the connection is back (aan can handle that).
I did not learn to code from any formal education though. By the time I had my first programming class (at university), I had already been writing code for nearly ten years (Basic, C++ and i386 assembly).
It's in the article he linked, sourced from military people quoted.
Yes, programming is a lot like plumbing nowadays. It is more about connecting existing pieces, than it is about inventing new stuff.

If you are looking for more interesting things, then try scientific computing, or work on new programming languages. But don't expect to make a lot of money.
Indeed, spinlocks most definitely aren't lock-free.

"rcu_read_lock" doesn't ever block (as in wait for a spinlock), right? Sometimes you just need readers to never block and can pay higher price for other operations.
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It's not that bananas, as a TCP connection is just a state machine, but you do need to plan how many simultaneous connections you want upfront and whether to copy all the logic for each one or find some way of sharing the logic and having a state table in memory somewhere.
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Perhaps not phrased well enough in my post, but as I said, my personal take is that - so long as the quality of access to justice can't be fully separated from wealth - third-party funding of lawsuits should be allowed, just not in secret. For an immediate fix: have parties disclose any third-parties funding their suits and any conflicts of interests they might have with the opposing side. Make the judge and jury aware of this and document it in the public proceedings of the suit.
All these professions are (going to be) gradually replaced by automation/robots. Learning to code might put them in "robot manager/operator" instead of "they took our jobs" crowd.
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> Machines have been taking human jobs since the late 1800s

I would add that humans have been paid to do repetitive, automated, routine work for ever, and they do so inefficiently. It's not human nature to stand in a production line for 8 to 12 hours straight placing screws somewhere.

There is something profoundly wrong with the life expectations of some if they are actually defending drone work.
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Honestly not really sure, having never worked in any of those jobs and have no idea what those jobs will look like 20 years from now. However let me speculate:

Many people believe that truck drivers will be become more and more replaced with autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. Understanding the underlying software will no doubt make it easier to be in charge of a software controlled semi-autonomous truck convoy. Also for all I know truck drivers on places like docks, mines and factories won't be sitting in their trucks for much longer. They'll be controlling everything via computers from a remote command post. Also from what I seen trucking seems to involve a lot of complex routing and optimization problems, I'm guessing that as simply driving becomes less and less part of the job, those aspects will become more and more part of the job.

I know fuck all about welding. I do however know some programmers who work for a company that makes industrial welders and apparently there's some pretty complex software running those welders. Perhaps being able to field program your welder is/will be a thing? Also perhaps welding things directly will become less and less common and people will be sending computer controlled drones to do the welding instead.

Anyway it's not for me to sit on the outside and try to guess how programming can make people more efficient at their jobs. I truly believe that if someone with experience and domain knowledge also knows how to do some simple programming they'll be able to see all kinds of tiny improvements and automatstation they can implement. Improvements that both an outsider programmer and an insider non-programmer would completely overlook. And even if they aren't always skilled enough to implement those improvements, they'll be much better equipped to know what can be done and what to ask for.
agreed, if you want to keep things simple jQuery is still a nice tool and ES6 only makes it nicer to type, ES6 does not improve native DOM manipulation
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> Yet somehow most countries are able to tax labor, income, land, and so on, without losing their entire populations.

That's because most of the population aren't free to give everything up because a government gradually makes their life slightly worse.

Just because the frog doesn't skip out of the saucepan, it doesn't magically mean that it's perfectly acceptable to keep turning up the gas.
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All the people romanticizing the good all days need to write CAD/CAM software in Fortran IV on an IBM 360 with nothing but the five thousand opaque IBM reference binders and a couple of college texts on computer graphics. To a deadline.

The real "joy" was posting a problem on the comp.lang.c and praying Dan Bernstein or Henry Spencer was online and would answer sometime in the next day or so ...
If others can make a profit providing this for you, why shouldn't they be allowed to?

Maybe there are good answers to that question, but that should be the default.
How bad are they that they're getting censored off imgur? What for, racial hatred?
Don't feel bad. I had exactly the same thought when I posted this, and also decided to Google it. I assumed aeon and eon where synonyms, but realized I'd never actually looked it up to confirm that. Now we know...
Granted, ABS invalidates the following argument a little, but not entirely. The traditional wisdom when faced with bad road conditions and an impending accident is that maintaining control through steering is much preferable to braking, which lowers the speed with which you can manoeuvre out of the situation.

It all depends so much on various variables so I find it hard to categorically say "it should always be on."
>I could focus better on the ideas and on the code. Now, with so many distractions you need to be more resistant and self disciplined.

I think it is about the task at hand. When I try drawing 2D spaceships and adding keyboard controls, it is a flowing experience no matter what tools I use.

When I start solving bugs in compression libraries or debugging million line code bases, it is all pain, frustration and google.
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One of the inherent fallacies in your initial comment that I didn't address, but which you've brought up here: Nobody makes anything the lingua franca, it's something that happens organically.

I'm sure you're as aware as I am why English is the current lingua franca. It's mostly a historical accident, and it's what we've got.

Whether the lingua franca might be English, Chinese or whatever is unrelated to your initial comment, which is what I was replying to.

There you were proposing that everyone should learn some artificial language for international communication. I think this is a bad idea for the reasons I stated above.

Now instead of defending your argument that we should all use some constructed language you're off on a digression about why English and not Chinese, both of which are natural languages.
This ugly son of a b____ is optimizing super hot algorithms and you are f______ stupid. How?... Just read this free paper >>>

I wonder how long it will take until academical papers are published with clickbait titles.
> Correct. It's also the problem with taxes. Corporations move to where taxes are cheaper.

Not just corporations. All tax payers try to pay the least they can.

There are professional accountants who make a living by filing personal tax returns, and people pay them to advise them on tax deductions and investment schemes that lowers their tax bill.
As altruistic as this may appear, I really don't want my data altered, on-the-wire, in any way, by my ISP. It should be my choice as to what is to be blocked, and I think time should instead be taken to educate users on how to install ad blockers onto their mobile devices.
The cost difference depends on how much your administration costs go up because you need to do things yourself, rather than through the AWS API. That's why it's hard to calculate.
What? Are they actually suggesting you can read the newspaper while driving, as long as you have auto-throttle, auto emergency braking and lane keeping on?
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On this one I have to side with the advertisers. If a customer wants to block ads that one thing... if an ISP wants to block ads... or... "achieve change by working with all stakeholders" that sounds like (a) a whitelist or blacklist or smart system that will go wrong sometimes, and (b) a protection racket. This is what net neutrality is for (not that we have it any more).
A - I'm not sure anybody is wealthy enough to get Ayyadurai a win. Wealth puts more ammunition in your weapon but you know the gun has to be operable. Thiel was a lawyer, he'll know a loser case when he sees it.

B - Spreading rumours is what Gawker does best. They are fighting for their life here so we'll need to make doubly sure of sources. Spreading shit to distract is a time honored custom. Government, businesses and media do it all the time.

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Precisely.

A single tractor is the sole responsible for eliminating the need for hiding a small brigade of farmhands or construction workers.

Efficiency shouldn't be taxed.
Ten years ago even startups were largely Java-only when I looked (at least here in London). Five years ago nowhere was advertising pure-Scala/Haskell/OCaml/F# jobs at all. I heard about OCaml at Facebook from friends working there before the big public announcements about it. It's hard to separate general trends from my own trajectory of course.

> Is it? I've been a professional developer for 20 years and while I agree that productivity has gone up considerably (maybe 2-3x) it can be attributed nearly entirely to automated tests and GCs.

I think productivity is noticeably higher than even five years ago, when we already had GC and widespread testing.
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What makes you think 'nest' and 'collection of eggs' are synonyms? True, it's common for a collection of eggs to be found in a nest, but they don't mean the same thing.
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Or we abandon the idea that the purpose of people is to serve the economy. This will be a very difficult change to make.
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