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Since one of my professors forced all students to learn Smalltalk I deeply respect Alan Kay. This language is so consistent and readable at the same time. Whenever I heard a story of him or saw something he had done this respect grows.

But somehow I stick to code in golang in my spare time. I am afraid I will never see a language designed by Alan Kay and Ken Thompson together ;-)

Thx for the HN Alan Kay Edition
I think mostly from the Skype deal, which was once in a lifetime.
These people are not scientists.

They conveniently forget that real scientists study independently what these people's own 'God' created. Rather than confront the truth, they retreat to insane (literally: non-sane) ideas about the universe.

Disclaimer: I teach computing in a creationist school in London, UK. I refrain from expressing my utter disgust that such places exist.
can I use TS2 already?
The core thesis is really only true if money can't be exchanged for some expectation value of additional years of healthy life. Up until fairly recently (say 20 years) that was the case. You couldn't really do a lot with a lot of money to swing odds, any more than you could with just a little money and some forethought. The free stuff like planning, exercise, and calorie restriction outweigh everything else, and by the time you're in late old age how far you get is a complete lottery of genes and happenstance.

It isn't true any more, however. You can outlay money to increase your life span down the line - though it isn't an individual thing, it is increasing life span for everyone. It is a collaborative effort.

How: money can be used as a lever at all levels of research and development in the science of aging to increase everyone's life expectancy by pushing forward the right lines of development. Whether that is by being an insider putting in five figures into a seed round in a useful startup, or by being a billionaire establishing a research foundation, you can move the needle. Early stage research is dirt cheap. Venture capital is overflowing the sandbags for any venture that can do something credible with its seed round. There are startups at various stages today that have means of repairing/removing some of the cell and tissue damage that causes aging, and are pushing towards human testing.

The game of life used to be limited. It used to have a line at the end, you are done. Everything in life and all of our culture is very much defined by the existence of that once-immutable endpoint. The endpoint is fading, however, in the sense that bringing aging under medical control is a research and development project that can and has been envisaged in some detail. But next to no-one has yet adapted to the new reality: the world is still full of old people playing the same old game of gathering points in politics and markets for some final score, and of young people aiming to be in the same position.

If there was sanity, the old game board would be thrown out, and immense interest and investment would be directed towards the biotechnologies of aging and longevity. There is a big difference between a world in which you can't buy time with money, and one in which you can.
Which is why what Rich Hickey did with clojure.spec is so important...

He acknowledged the deficiency, but worked through it to understand what the problem actually is. Then he created a solution that solves the real problem, in a way that avoids diminishing the character of the language.

Have a read through the rationale on the design of clojure.spec to see what I mean.

http://clojure.org/about/spec
Once in a blue moon I get the urge to run some analysis or another on sports stats, but I almost inevitably end up having second thoughts when I realize obtaining good data is going to be an ongoing chore.
Someone's ego
Sadly, the issue has become quite politicized, and that means that millions throw their support for a cause without evidence.
Cooperation emerges when groups are small and memories are long
In chapter 2 of the tutorial, he mentions Commodore DOS as being an OS which resides in ROM (read only memory), which means it's definitely possible. I'm just a laymen but I'd wager that there are some cases where this is still done.
Oh that should definitely be on the list! I'll ask Craig (current editor of the Macro) to add it. Edit: added.
Now I am bit confused. Yes, on the consumer side there will be no big difference as compared to the current situation but don't we agree that the current situation is not good or at least not optimal?
You know people harass others, right? It's not "made up". Come on.
It's not a question of whether humans have any influence (I think you would be hard pressed to find any serious scientist who would hold that position) but of the balance between human and natural factors. The set of people who hold dissident beliefs is not tiny, and many of them are very serious people indeed. One can't dismiss them for saying many are not specialists in the official field of climatology because insights can come from many places (and there is the matter of playing games with the journals and people deliberately using political power to shut out dissident views).

Wiki isn't the best source on this topic, but here is one list, for example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_...

The work that has been done relies heavily on models and simulations. These are both not realistic (because there are many factors that are too complex to model, or that we don't yet understand fully) and have not predicted temperature well since the outturn of past years has been significantly lower than predicted by the envelope of such models.

The political climate clearly is not one where people feel free to speak (see other stories on attempts or proposals to criminalise the expression of dissident views under certain circumstances or to create legal liabilities) and in that situation many people will keep quiet and hide what they really believe. See Timur Kuran's work on preference falsification.
That is one solution for how to distribute a good that's available in limited quantities. It's not the only solution, or necessarily the "best" solution for any given circumstance.

Other examples include "Who's willing to wait in a 15 minute line for the water fountain," "Enter a lottery for the limited number of season football tickets," and "Only people with an even numbered license plate can buy gas today."

I think there are longer-term factors for the NBA here. If your fans can't get reasonably priced tickets to any of the games they're excited about because of scalping, some percent of them are going to get fed up and do something else with their lives. The NBA gets long term value out of fans being able to connect with their brand at the prices that the NBA is setting, but scalpers are scraping up the benefits from both sides and pocketing it.

NBA doesn't get the money that they could have earned by charging higher prices, and fans don't have a shot at affordable access to events.
I exclusively get my news from social media - most notably HN and Reddit, also facebook and Twitter. Occasionally a BBC breaking news thing will happen on my phone which would be the only times I don't get my news from social media.
When the original commenters said "Everyone, especially a chronically ill person on their deathbed, should be free to choose whatever experimental medical procedure they want", it's safe to assume he meant "within reason".

The "within reason" part is very important: As in, someone on their deathbed might have to go through certain hoops to get not-yet-approved treatment X (like signing waivers saying they understand the risks, etc); and there might other minimalist safeguards in place (such as that the chemicals are manufactured at regulated facilities; that the persons involved in administering the treatment have no criminal records or major fraud convictions against them) -- but ultimately, they can get access to treatment X.

By tweaking this to an extreme absolutist position -- "there should be no regulation of end-of-life treatments, of any kind, whatsoever; even if the person offering the trade is a convicted criminal and/ con-artist" you are standing up a false argument that the original commenter wasn't making.
Home taping on analog media was not illegal. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act
You obviously missed the point that all scientific paradigms, which, when they are in force, are full of all sorts of "proofs", but are ultimately just human constructs, fallible, and, history shows, vulnerable to being overturned and thereafter ridiculed, over and over again.
What you call “obsession”, I call “preventing preventable mistakes”, and it's actually a good thing. There are perfectly viable ways to perform compile-time dimensional analysis, for example, parameterizing scalar types by the exponents of “primitive” dimensions.
But you still paid for it, at least a little bit. Blank media was taxed against piracy with the 'Private copying levy'[1]. It wasn't perfect (and could never be) since they simply tied payouts to chart position, but at least the artists still got _something_ when copies were made.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
I've heard of you. You're a pretty famous guy! ;)
Computer hardware used to provide higher level abstractions. An example is the Burroughs B5000. Kind of the opposite of RISC?
Why wouldn't they be "diverse" (as in different) if they were white SAs? Though every picture and video seems to imply there's probably few to zero white firefighters that came over. But that might just be selective photography. (To be fair the pictures don't seem to show any women either, but the official number is around 60, or slightly greater than 20%.)
My thoughts exactly, because who needs a minimum viable product when you have a nice bootstrap landing page
Instead of a "no shaming" culture, I'd like to find a culture of "don't fuck up". "No shaming" and "no assholes" just leads to people cheerily and politely fucking up.
I guess I just don't want to live in a world where everything non-essential is only available to people who can pay the most. I don't think it should be illegal to act like a capitalist robot, but I hope that some people choose not to when they can, because it makes the world a little more pleasant.
We don't know for sure about this instance, but evidence suggests that it's more likely to happen to a woman than a man - https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cfawis/bowles.pdf
Pattern prediction is one thing. But what happens when your model is both unrealistic in ways that some people think matters and doesn't predict the shape of things in the future well at all ? (Anyone can fit the past)...
"This is the power law distribution in practice."

http://blakemasters.com/post/21869934240/peter-thiels-cs183-...
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836580 and marked it off-topic.
I flagged this because I don't think it's entirely relevant to hacker news, there's nothing genuinely curious about the article and it's just going to incite some he-said-she-said.
If you just make them refundable then only the resellers get screwed.
Your position sounds right, but let's dig a little.

What if 20% of the teachers in public schools want to teach Creationism?

In your statements above are you making moral assumptions about the primacy of science, and if so, are you ok with the government legislating that?

When does something become "clear"? When a majority of the people see things that way?

If so, isn't that's what's happening here? A school board is not a "government agency" made up of appointed officials and their hires; it's effectively a legislative body that represents the will of the voters. They are elected into office and presumably can be recalled.

Does popularity == truth? If not, who decides?
Media query are at most marginally better. They still suck for all devices with high resolution and low size or large size but low resolution.
Java is great for doing backend work. Scala only makes it better due to the fact that you can apply functional principles if the problem you are trying to solve requires it besides having a great set of OO features aswell (but never, ever mix the two within a monolith architecture, because that will end with tears.). Nice plus is Scala.js which can transpile Scala to JavaScript so you can write Scala code both for frontend and backend purposes.

A great contender to Scala is starting to rise though, in the form of Clojure and ClojureScript. Clojure is starting to become pretty great for backend work and once you start using ClojureScript and topple it off with a framework such as Om or Reagent for building React based reactive UIs you will never look back.
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He was very popular in the UK, as a result of his fight with Harry Cooper and his appearances on Michael Parkinson's chat show over the years.
Anyone interested in system programming should check xv6
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html

both the source code and the free ebook
otoh often even having a viable product requires appearing legitimate to get funding.
Holy crap! I had no idea.
At this point, I had it in my mind as a broad and large undertaking, we would really need to dig into what information is available. For instance, if we look at baseball, we could make predictions based on historic outcomes and real-time scores but it would be much better the more granular we can get. Current score, current inning, current outs, current count, which players are in the outfield, who are the next 9 people to bat, who is pitching, which ballpark, the weather...
For the record I had no input in this decision. When I say we I was saying we as a company.

If they had asked me I would not hesitate to at least vote for git. I've used Subversion enough and I have always found the process of merging a branch as absolutely painful. I've never used VCS so I'm not qualified to evaluate it. As for a project management tool I don't know enough to make a compelling case against TFS. I can say that (a) I hated using it and (b) I was not along. It's been so long since I last used but I am thankful I don't anymore.

As someone who has used Microsoft TFS and its suite of tools versus using github or gitlab as well as jira for issue management I can tell you that git/github like tool/jira is preferable to subversion/TFS. I am willing to wager a large sum of money that most of the team members at the vista owned company would have agreed. And I am nearly certain TFS and Subversion was more expensive than the other tools.

You know why I think Vista's decision is bad? MBAs and finance people should not be dictating what tools should be used technical/coding/project managers. That is dumb. I'm glad you like whatever tools you use, what's with the snide attitude?
You want NASA in the Apollo era. Read "Failure is not an option".[1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/dp/...
I'd suggest that a lottery is less fair even to the poor — it doesn't account at all for how badly someone wants a ticket, and to whatever extent it might be gameable, the poor will always be the least well-equipped to game it.

Also, while you can't clone Taylor Swift and put on 10 shows at once, if the full market value for popular tickets went to the people creating that value (instead of resellers), there are actually lots of ways the market could respond to increase supply. Taylor Swift could do more shows per city. Or more shows per day. Or livestream to multiple venues. Or build extensions on the venue. Or build new venues specifically for this kind of thing. The list goes on.

A giant band can't be duplicated exactly, but they do have lots of competition. They compete with other bands, the movie theater, a quiet night in, the bowling alley, etc. It's entertainment. So if floating ticket prices put the tickets out of reach of most fans, the market will find a way to increase supply. Otherwise the average fan goes bowling, and long term you lose your core fan base. The supply will increase to meet the demand. Maybe via one of the ideas above, and maybe via something that we can't even think of right now (and which someone will get rich for figuring out).
I understand that aspiration, but I still don't get why do people get so worked up about concerts and sport events in particular.

People would think it was very strange if BMW made available a proportion of their cars at a lower price, or if people got angry at swiss watches being resold at a profit.
off-topic, but what does the p stand for in "pmarca"?
That quote prevented me from reading the article. Even in its hey day Napster wasn't "the source".
If your name is Alice and you live in Wonderland. Or Harry in Hogwarts.

In the real where requirements change constantly, libraries that you rely on rely on left-pad, budgets are short - or hell people just learn to write better code - so the old need to be refactored - the debt accumulates.

Code debt is like entropy - always goes up. The normal state of a software project is under staffer, under budgeted, in constant flux requirement wise and for yesterday.

Doing it right with reviews, refactoring, consistently is a luxury. You can try to have a process that minimizes chaos to minimum, but every project will devolve into unmaintainable mess. You cannot afford to be pure while you have the huge state monad called rest of the world that gives its best to crush you.
In my experience (teaching in Germany for about three years) it is not uncommon for Europeans to look on in astonishment at the dubious rulings of various governing levels in the U.S. and I can sympathize. But I can offer up a few random items which may dispel some of the amazement: The U.S. is a good deal more diverse than any one European country; the difference between Oregon and Texas is somewhat like comparing Iceland to Albania. The U.S. constitution is relatively ancient as compared with most European constitutions (~225 vs 75 years). The U.S. constitution has a number of provisions (first few amendments) which the European constitutions lack and which interact in unexpectedly deep philosophical ways. For instance, freedom of religion, on which substantial U.S. raison d'etre exists, can be a real sticking point when one religion, for example, declares that governmental support of birth control in any form violates their religion. oh and how often am i asked about the gun thing? but i can't really help you there - that really is nutz. So social diversity and deep freedoms of speech, religion, guns, and robust capitalism, that's your witches' cauldron (der Hexenkessel, if you happen to be German)
Have you quantified the number of people per account that FB is giving a suggested label to a detected face vs a users number of friends? It'd be interesting to see how FBs classifier performs.
Yeah i feel like obtaining historical data will be easy but staying up to date is the real challenge
Would like to see comparison to RiotJS
I'm not sure how different this is than other articles talking about society today that frequent HN.
ESPN had an API for a while, but, it didn't provide scores (they were getting the scores from a third party).

I've been looking for something like this for one of my personal projects, but, haven't really had the time to spend on it recently.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268337.
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Interesting data - what do the colors mean on the chart?
So do many journalists. In some fields, news stories seem to be almost exclusively based on Tweets, forum posts, Reddit posts and Youtube videos.

I personally still check some news sites from time to time, but yes, the majority of my news comes from social media sites and internet communities now.
You can define leftist to mean basically whatever you want, so you can probably answer your own question.
That makes sense. I feel like the more granular and real time you can get, the better
Besides scores, what other data would you look for?
Probably because it wasn't substantive. There's also something uncivil about reducing a complex thing like lutefisk's comment to the most-easily-denounced bit, then denouncing it. It shuts down conversation instead of taking it in an interesting direction.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837077 and marked it off-topic.
This article is 3 paragraphs long, has very little detail, and you can read it in ~30 seconds. There's nothing curious here, it's just a news bite about some story, it's not a feature article about campus rape or anything.
This is the second time trueadm posted this. Not sure what you're trying to prove? Mind answering this?
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No, the Skype deal was very idiosyncratic: Andreessen was on the eBay board and no-shopped the Skype spinout to himself. That isn't going to happen again.
I believe a good autopsy can often distinguish between injuries that occur pre and post death.
I think the lifespan issue misses the point. The core thesis is that 'more' - money, houses, lifespan - doesn't buy you happiness. You've still got to figure out what to do with each day you get, and that's where happiness either happens or doesn't.
Former Grooveshark employee here so my opinion might be highly biased but I believe that the genie of free music is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back in, whether that is fair or not, it's just reality. I don't pretend that Grooveshark had anything to do with that change, we recognized that it had already happened and tried to find a way forward for the industry.

Older people, especially those with money, will certainly pay for music either by buying the music or paying for subscription services or both, and I don't see that changing but kids, the ones who I know at least, won't pay for music they can get for free, and they all know how to get it for free. Streaming services try to bring that behavior into the light and at least try to monetize it, but eliminating free streaming is only going to drive them back to the shadows. I really think that efforts to stop people from listening to music for free will be about as effective as prohibition or the war on drugs.
> When people say words like consensus instead of hypothesis you can tell they are having a political debate that involves science rather than a scientific debate that involves politics

Only because you don't have to point out that there's a consensus if it's not a political issue. Lots of things have general consensus - we just have absolutely no need to point out that most scientists agree on something unless someone doesn't believe that's the case.

There's a consensus that generally bad things will happen if we let climate change get out of hand. There's not a consensus on precisely what form those bad things will take.
Good to know. I've yet gotten around to trying this out (just recently upgraded to a Marshmellow phone), I feared it was install > grant permssions > optionally revoke permissions. And I wasn't ready to try that with an app that came out of fb, given their track record.

Maybe that's an idea for an open source Android demo app - one that requests a certain set of (or all possible) permissions, and then simply displays the status of those permissions (granted/blocked).
Thanks for the advice about the used Thinkpads! The only thing I'm concerned about with those is battery life. How easy/cheap is it to replace a battery on a used X220?
...easier said than done!
I'll keep banging on this since I haven't yet heard a satisfactory answer: what are you going to do about people who park on the street or in garages they do not own?

Overnight charging systems are for homeowners. Even with a (high end, optimistic) public charge station time of 30 minutes, if there are just 4 people ahead of you in line, that's 2.5 hours out of your day.

Yes self driving may fix this eventually, but what if we are not there by 2025?
That's totally more reasonable than I had assumed. Thanks!
The article referenced in the blog post is also quite good: http://thenewstack.io/10x-programmer-just-jerk/