skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you like Rebol you should. Spry is nowhere near as evolved as Red (which is darn impressive) and Spry is also moving towards Smalltalk more than Rebol.

I also think there is quite a bit of difference in philosophy. Rebol/Red loves adding tons of hardwired datatypes into the language, while Spry is more Lisp/Smalltalkish in minimalism. Also, Rebol shunned OO which Spry doesn't (Red... not so sure).

But shunning OO is popular these days :)
Just as the pope would not find atheism an acceptable attitude, RMS would not find non-free-software or software that takes away rights to your devices and data acceptable. From what I found, it is very well possible to discuss a lot of broader topics with RMS. He seems to be very open to cultures and revolutionary ideas and can discuss them from various viewpoints if he is in the mood. He also has ideas (e.g. copyright on films) where he suggests stuff, but is open to discussion and ideas.

Today, essentially all software runs on his ideas. Gnu/Linux is at the heart of Android, most (home)routers, the vast majority of webservers. The "hacker" community here at HN is full of knowledge about *Unix systems, that nowadays are full of GNU software. He is awkward a lot of times, but essentially, by being so, he (in conjunction with Linus) won over the world.
Yeah I thought about this and could find a news article that said they did around 5000 jumps a year since they started in 2001 (and they're located in Las Vegas so they I assume most of their customers are first timers). So that is 75000 jumps. In the news I could find two fatalities, and two serious injuries (but let's ignore those for now). Apparently, statisticians use the term "micromorts" which means a death per million activities when talking about risks from things like this. So for this business the track record is 26.7 micromorts. Compared to the base statistics in skydiving--which is 9--this means that this business has 3 times the likely risk. Am I getting this right?
In the engineering faculty at my university there's actually a machine shop with people of various specialities. If you go there you can get things made as long as you have a CAD drawing for them to work from. They'll also point out issues in the drawing if they see them.

We also had a student machine shop where students could work and there was a technician on hand to give advice (and prevent you from doing something stupid).
This is James Phillips, author of tkInterFit.

my background is in nuclear engineering and industrial radiation physics, as I started working in the U.S. Navy as a submarine nuclear reactor operator many, many neutrons ago.

I have quite a bit of international experience calibrating industrial metal thickness and coating gauges. For example the thicker a piece of steel the more radiation it absorbs, and measuring the amount of radiation that passes through a sheet of steel can tell you how thick it is without touching it. Another example is that the thicker a zinc coating on steel sheets, the more zinc X-ray fluorescence energy it can emit - again allowing accurate thickness measurement for industrial manufacture.

My post-Navy employer originally used ad-hoc spreadsheets to very tediously create 4th-order polynomials calibrating to readings from known samples. So I started writing my own curve-fitting software in C.

When X-rays pass through aluminium, the atomic weight of the alloying elements is much greater than that of the aluminium itself such that small changes in alloy composition lead to large changes in X-ray transmission for the same thickness. Alloy changes look like thickness changes, egad! However, alloy changes also cause changes to the X-rays that are scattered back from the aluminium, so that if both the transmitted and backscattered radiation is measured a more alloy-insensitive measurement can be made - but this is now a 3D surface fit, and I started writing surface fitting software. I began to do considerable international work.

This finally led to the development of my Python fitting libraries, and this example tkinter curve and surface fitter. I also have Python 2 and 3 wxPython and django versions on GitHub.

James
It's not dead, it's just... deliberate. Development is supposedly occurring inside a (non-public) source repository, according to a developer I spoke to recently.
You want a nice misty buff.
Paris Thinks Amazon Prime Will ‘Destabilize’ Local Economy
The database is usually the bottleneck because of IO, not because of load on the actual database in my experience. Assuming you know how to design and index a database.
1. Yes, and no props to him on that. Name-calling's just inappropriate for a public rhetoric. But as for this particular article - it's a different case.

2. It's not about history rewriting. When one uses different term and disagrees with the commonly used one, they don't (well... normally) deny the facts that there is such use. The usual attitude is "they say 'piracy' but I believe it's wrong to use this term in such context"
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One problem I've seen is the reduction in the variety of high school courses. If you don't spend the time doing work in shop, you might not know that you really enjoy it and make the decision to try and get an apprenticeship. It's not just shop, it's a variety of things.
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...and where petty factionalism (among other factors) led to the creation of, say, /r/math, /r/maths, /r/askmath, /r/askmaths, /r/learnmath, /r/mathematics, /r/badmathematics... and so on for every topic you can think of.
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why is this musical so popular?

btw, Alexander Hamilton was never the president
No, it did not occur to me. The reason is precisely that I have not seen this mindset among C++ programmers, at least in the open source world. Llvm is an exception.

What I do see is hubris. They are overconfident and pretend that one can use C++ like Haskell, i.e. one can safely go ahead and pile one abstraction onto another.

C programmers at least know the limitations of their language.

This is the just impression that I and many others get. I'm sure there are counterexamples.
Ruby, another language in the Smalltalk lineage, did without the [ ] at the cost of the "end" keyword to terminate blocks, but there is also the equivalent {} notation, recommended for one liners.

A Python indented Ruby would probably able to do without [ ] but I should think about whether there are some unresolvable ambiguities with that approach. I won't recommend that personally because syntactical spaces introduce bugs. I run into one a few days ago when I moved code around a file and forgot to fix the indentation of a few lines. Luckily this one cost me only five minutes. Many people like Python though.

Overall I like the terseness of

1 to: 5 do: [echo :x]

instead of the more verbose

loop(1, 5, lambda x: echo x) # Python
(1..5).each do { |x| echo x } # Ruby
(1..5).each do |x| # Ruby again
echo x
end

But all those : are annoying: they increase the noise/signal ratio. I'd even do without the | | in the multi line Ruby version. I wonder if the compiler could add the : automatically by matching what it sees with the signatures of the defined function.

1 to 5 do [echo :x]

Then, why you need :x and couldn't use x without the : ?
Furthermore, how do I know how the name of the block argument if I didn't write the function. Isn't that an unnecessary coupling between the name chosen by the developer of the library and my code? I probably didn't understand everything is going on here. Edit: it has been explained in another comment in the parent's thread.

And there are so many commonly used languages that use { } to define code blocks and [ ] for arrays. I'd stick with the majority for an easier onboarding of developers.

The possibility of defining pseudo keywords thanks to the infix/suffix arguments is great. That's probably anathema in the Python world (only one way of doing things) and also in Go's. It should be acceptable in Ruby's.

I'd prefer something like this

func (n)to(m)do(blk) {
x = n
...
do blk x
...
}

The order of arguments and function names is clear because you read them from left to right without going through two different lists.

Is anybody using Spry for real world programs?
There's plenty more about Newton's work on alchemy here:
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/

Hi lab notebook is also great if you're intereted in the chemistry side of things!
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-03975/1

He even includes his own ink recipe here!:
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-03975/29
> So that's on the order of decades, perhaps centuries

Isn't this my argument? You're saying that the country won't be back in the EU in your own lifetime, and that's something that's okay to decide on a mere 2% majority from a clearly poorly-handled referendum? That the UK, a centuries-old nation, is fine to split up because the public wasn't paying enough attention at the time and had a short-term grump? That a confirmation referendum isn't a good idea, even though the Leave party maintain that this is the clear will of the people - if it is, what is the harm in repeating it?

The money that Farage isn't going to give to the NHS after all, that could be used to finance the second referendum :)

> The EU might not exist

And this might be the trigger. Not to mention that the world's home of banking loudly proclaiming that it is not a stable place to do business... that's going to send lasting shockwaves around the world.

> That is the nitpicking of the establishment media at work, whom have a motive to jinx the results.

When the stakes are this high, pedantry is absolutely warranted. And having Farage himself state that he wasn't going to give 350M/week to the NHS is hardly the media's invention.

> Financial capital is becoming much less important in the world than it used to be. It is less effective at getting results.

If it actually is 34% of the GDP, then it doesn't matter if it's 'declining'. It's still an 800lb gorilla. I also wouldn't base a country's economic policy based on the highly faddish behaviours of Silicon Valley. If even a tenth of the finance industry leaves, that's a massive hole in tax revenues... and less to spend on welfare and health.

And, let's face it, the British are famous for having a poor work ethic. They're not going to manufacture their way out of this one - few natural resources left and a significantly declined (and expensive!) manufacturing sector. Services and networking are where the British need to make their money, and now that they're headed out of the giant European market, external clients will prefer services inside that market.

So, yes, the people in the City are arses that care not a whit for anything outside London. But destroying the UK in some sort of class warfare revenge snit is going to hurt everyone, regardless of class.
Mmm, right. Close but not quite. I like the idea but I think the visualisation needs some work. Too many people seem to have a hard time making sense of it.
The article says that he worked mostly on custom glass shapes with properties that were very difficult to factory produce, or had very low demand, not enough for a factory to bother with.
I am working on an app where the original developer has followed a "thin models fat controllers philosophy". I have never seen this referred to as a good thing anywhere else (and Django works far better the other way around). Is there any information on why this might be a good idea / benefits to this approach?
Because we're stronger together, that's why it's in the interest of the EU to keep the UK in its area of influence.
All of them, really (that are video games). It's a single series.

I would say that the most recent incarnation is the most tactical - ironically, largely because it disposes with some of the first game's realism, and makes squad leaders into moving spawn points for the rest of the squad. This means that squad leaders need to balance staying alive (to provide better spawns) versus the need to keep advancing (to provide spawns closer to important objectives); and squad members, on the other hand, need to protect their leader even at great personal risk to themselves.

It also makes flanking and other maneuvers that much more worthwhile, because the payoff for having your entire squad spawn on you near a gap in the enemy's defense line (or, better yet, behind it) is immense, and can make for a very rapid takeover of the objective, or deny the enemy reinforcements and allow the gap to grow faster than the other team can plug it.

So the team that provides the best collective cover for their squad leaders' advance is more likely to win compared to the team that just goes for kills, even if the latter is noticeably better at the run-and-gun mechanics.
There is a curious effect that seems to bring together the most advanced science and technology with very old tech otherwise thought obsolete. The place where you are most likely to find floppy discs is probably a research lab, because a rare, very expensive instrument saves its data on them. Space probes use ancient CPUs like 386's as they can handle the radiation.
> Many founding fathers, presidents, judges, military service members, and the like have chose what is best for the long-term at the expense of themselves.

Not saying it doesn't happen; it does rarely, and under special circumstances. Also it's not that people really need to be pushed hard to do good things - it's more that everyone is entangled in various incentive structures preventing them from doing good, and you could argue that rich and powerful are generally subject to much stronger incentives to do bad than ordinary people. It takes strong character and luck to be an exception. Elon Musk can and does think long-term and for the betterment of everyone - for which he is constantly ridiculed by the media (or even here), not to mention loads of people being constantly perplexed by Tesla's and SpaceX's business decisions, because they can't understand that a company can really exists just as a means to realize some non-short-term, non-monetary goal like getting us to Mars or getting transportation off fossil fuels.

Hell, we've generally created a system that attempts to forbid companies from long-term, cooperative thinking. Just almost any kind of strategic cooperation on the market is being called "anti-competitive practice" and discouraged with severe punishments. And for good reason, probably - companies tend to cooperate against society, not for it, and governments tend to not like rich people being powerful enough to work around them completely. As companies get successful they're being asked to go public - and that's usually enough to destroy any possibility of working for long-term good in them - public shareholders tend to not give a damn about the company mission or deeds beyond their means of making immediate profit. It takes special trickery, like Google did, to keep the company in control of individuals capable of thinking longer-term.

For better or worse, we tend to force rich people both culturally and legally into being greedy and short-sighted - so let's not act surprised if that's all most of them do.
As a researcher, sometimes you need glassware in very specific dimensions that is not available in commercial catalogs. For instance a few months ago I needed a glass pipe of a given diameter and a given angle in order to fit a machine which normally does not use glass pipes.

Such combination of diameter and bend angle was not available off-the-shelf, so a glassblower needed to make a custom piece for us.
I don't think such a seriously scary thing like this would remain a secret for long. Not only would I think that someone inside of Facebook would leak it (just like the Trending News debacle that Gawker covered), but I strongly believe that security researchers or other people fiddling around with things on their phone or the Facebook app would uncover it.

Combine that with permission models on most devices that alert the user when the microphone is turned on, I cannot see Facebook doing this secretly.

Also, just think about all the things that your girlfriend said around her phone that hasn't turned up in Facebook ads. I'm willing to chalk this up to a weird coincidence or other reasons mentioned here.
I'm not sure about the first-party Let's Encrypt client, but letsencrypt.sh will check the dates and not bother to ask for a new certificate if the sertificate expires more than 30 days into the future. This way, if the Let's Encrypt servers are overloaded that day and not renewing certificates, the client will try once a day for a month before the certificate expires.
I don't object to platformers per se, it's just that it's really not what I expect from Doom.

Also, I actually liked the (much more limited / less frustrating) platforming mechanics during fights, that just gives you more freedom of movement. Freedom of movement is good and Doom'ish.

It's the part outside of them, where you have to hop around in silence just to get somewhere, or get to a juicy item, that's objectionable - because that part is less about freedom, and more about railroading ("No, you HAVE to jump onto that moving train to proceed... and sorry, the last checkpoint is before that fight that you just have - hope you like replaying it if you fail the jump.").
I like using this: https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-compa...

Works like a charm
what you describe is extremely unfair. my situation - scraped all cash I could earn in last 12 years of full time IT development/consulting, took a massive mortgage and bought a flat in my dream location in mountains where we go almost every weekend. I will be paying for this for next 25 years till its mine. It will cost me a fortune, it's quite risky move and if things will go very south (ie my health will deteriorate dramatically), I am more than screwed. This will be most probably the biggest investment in my whole life.

I live in rental apartment and probably will keep doing this (where I live and work I can't afford to buy, and won't for various reasons). By your logic, I should be taxed to hell just because you don't like seeing foreign capital buying off properties in London or some other location you want to buy property in? No, thank you. I've lived through communism, resemblance is striking.
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Should they do that through a single service api instead of directly hitting the database?
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>Yet, Tor pages I've read certainly weren't describing themselves as a tool of U.S. intelligence agencies funded by their fronts.

I'm not sure DARPA or Naval Research Laboratory are really intelligence agency fronts.

https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en

Tor is supported by intelligence agencies because of the value it brings to them. For someone undercover, Tor is a great way to keep in touch, and if you're confronted you have a plausible explanation of wanting to buy LSD or watch kiddie porn or whatever most people use Tor for.
After signing up for that free nugget, I have no way of getting back to the main Page.. this is a little annoying. Also, that gif.. i don't know it's a little weird. And, are you sure you are allowed to use that on a commercial site?

Regarding gifs, on your 404 page there is another gif, with copyrighted material, and even a Netflix logo visible, I doubt you have the permission to use this in a commercial way.
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I would argue that OO is polymorphism + innate object identity. Though the latter only matters if you have mutability; but then, whether OO without mutability is "true OO" is one of those deeply philosophical questions.
You mean they just want people to think their project is dead, while they secretly keep working on it? I don't get it...
Is your website responsive enough?
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Quote from OA

"This year, Salem Community College graduated 31 glassblowers — for years, the school graduated about 20 each year — and it expects 66 incoming students next school year. Social media videos have sparked new interest in the craft, Briening said."

Perhaps a couple of apprenticeships while the experienced ones are still around? Wouldn't cost that much.

I'm liking this increase in interest in craft production and manual skills - the kind that are harder to taylorise.
I suspect the effect at work is simply a lack of money. Those ancient technologies aren't better in any way, but developing new ones has an implicit cost that's hard to justify when the old technology still does the job, however poorly. It would be possible to use a radiation hardened CPU that's far better than a 386 but only if someone spends millions in research and testing first - no one is willing to do that when an existing variation of a 386 does the job already.
You're forgetting the 12+ years of schooling.
Some of the circles are inverse circles. I thought it was inaccurate at first too, until I realized the India result was telling me "you're NOT in Peru".
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The transcriptions are being prepared by the Newton Project (see http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1)

The waste book has been transcribed:
http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/catalogue/record/NATP0...

But this is quite a complex manuscript, so in this specific case we are still working on tie-ing the transcription and images together!
Oh, and if I enter nothing into the search box on your 404 page, I get a list of all pages you have. Even old home versions with an old discount (?).
There might be laws that might force you to give that discount in some countries.
400kloc Java. That's cute. Not saying that's not impressive. The scales I've seen you're off by a few orders of magnitude.
I hope that some of this type of hands on expertise develops and is shared in places like this https://synshop.org/ (my friend Aakin who helps out there told me about it)
Here is my take:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11975706

I've lived in England up until just recently and am working class so I have a better handle on this than the majority of people who are downvoting my comments on the subject.

Seems like in reality most people don't actually want to hear an opinion they disagree with. I hate to say it but even Reddit is able to grok some of this better than HN. I know a lot of people here do essentially understand it but they are being drown out by concernmongers. Funny that this was such a shock to the system and yet few people on social media were representing themselves as 'Leave' supporters. I wonder why that could be. <= That's sarcasm.

Free speech actually really does mean different opinions. Not just the ones you agree with and find sensible.
Have you compared the process with that of other countries? I hear similar stories from folks looking to move to other wealthy, stable western countries.

I once had a friend that worked in American universities doing high end coding, supporting academic staff. It took him twenty years to get his residency. Western democracies in general will only take in younger people, because older people are a direct drain on the healthcare system (without having helped to fund it via taxes).

Australia is a popular destination, so they can pick and choose a bit I guess. I guess that makes it difficult to migrate to in terms of competition, but when you look at the overall numbers, there's huge amounts of migrants arriving in comparison to contemporary nations.
Not at all. Syntax is only the first step. Then comes imperativeness. If you can't write what's essentially Java code in its syntax, it's not going to be a thing.
In a recent past, what is now commonly referred to as "ip" or "intellectual property" used to be described more accurately as intellectual rights.

Sorry, could not resist.