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J's ideas are terrific. Dyalog is actively incorporating the ideas in J back into APL. J's choice to use ASCII characters instead of Unicode is a historically understandable design decision that I feel should no longer constrain the APL community. Otherwise, Dyalog APL and J are my two favorite APLs.

If I can't write in APL, I would probably write it in Scheme. I haven't found anything yet that wasn't quite addressable in APL, and the one that was (writing compilers) I figured out how to do, obviously.

However, if you want to create a DSL or otherwise play with notational elements in a DSL style for which macros are the "right choice" then APL is unlikely to be your friend, because I have yet to find a way to create good macro systems on top of APL. Scheme simply wins here. However, vocabulary based DSLs (combinatory DSLs or the like) are very well suited to APL.

Outside of these, I'm actively exploring the idea of theorem proving based programming, and currently things like Agda, Idris, ACL2, or Isabelle are going to be better for this right now. Not inherently, but because of tool support. I hope to change this in the future.
The way you know it's real is when you call up cloudflare's top customers and ask if they would switch to the competition the answer was a resounding yes. That's how I know it's not based on a HN bubble
Apple is a still computer company, because Phones ARE computers.

For the majority of the population in developed countries, and almost all of the population of developing countries, smartphones are the only computer people have or need.

I agree that Apple have shifted focus away from "making tools for people to create things and solve problems" towards consumption-oriented mobile devices. But those devices are still computers, and they're wildly successful.

If Apple devoted their focus to products in proportion to their revenue, then they would be putting 12x as much effort into the iPhone than they would for the entire Mac lineup.
You may want to give a try to docopt
Yeah, same. Really fell in love with Miller columns and don't have a good file manager replacement on other OS.

Even worse, apparently both Thunar and Nautilus dropped their implementations.
Modern audio systems actually do work like this, here's a good write up from PulseAudio about dynamic buffer sizes and resampling when a new sound comes in

I do not know how a2dp works and if it supports such buffers though.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse-glitch-free.html
No, the Martian Lagrangian point L1 is the only stable point that can be used. If you tried to move the blocker closer to the sun, the device would have to orbit faster than Mars. L1 is the point where the gravity of the sun and Mars cancel out.

The only other place you could have it would be directly on mars, where it would have to be much larger.
This is cool but I feel like it would have been even more awesome if it actually used korean language as keywords (which would have made the code actually readable and usable) instead of just mixing together characters.

I realize this is just for fun but I hope someone builds a completely functional language written in their own language. That would be really cool to see where that goes. That would be not just a technological innovation but interesting socially.
If you ask any young person in Seoul, their pronounciation is identical.
Lonelyhomes.ca is attempt to get grassroots enumeration of vacant homes in Vancouver, BC Canada
It means on what basis can you stand and say to people who's lives may be at risk that you trust apple's press releases?

Please don't respond with the strawman you keep using of Iphone vs. Android. I am not arguing that Android is more secure. I am saying that taking either to meet an at risk source is bad. Your advice on this forum will contribute to journalists feeling comfortable doing this.
My first home computer. My other non-home computer being an IBM mainframe. ;) Still sitting in my parents attic somewhere. I gotta get it up and running again.

I really wanted an Atari video game console but my parents thought the ZX81 would be more educational. And I guess they were right.

Endless hours on the floor in front of the TV writing programs in Basic with that spiral bound user's manual for reference. I got the 16KB expansion pack since the 1KB grew old pretty fast.

I remember the user's manual had the pins for the expansion port and a list of all the Z80A assembly instructions. I spent hours looking at those having absolutely no clue what that was. No Internet to look things up back...

I also upgraded to the Spectrum. An then surprisingly enough to an Atari 512ST after the next Sinclair, the "QL", turned up to be a bit of a fail. Really should have gotten an Amiga in retrospects ;)
Some imbedded systems don't have sse3. But I guess if you're doing crypto on such hardware and using TLS then you'll want to use chachapoly and not aes-gcm. My question really focuses on it being bizarre that sha256 doesn't have a specialization for sse3.
Does this mean that one of the four horsemen of the infocalypse has been proven a fake?
I went through a period of frequent restarts on vultr too. Moved to ssd nodes with their reddit offer to two locations.
Or if they have never been visited by some webproxy Cloudflare customer.
I, strangely enough, sometimes run Windows in Tablet mode and use it as tiling window manager. Works surprisingly well. Try it sometime.
From the resume for Software Engineer in Test:
"Send resume with cover letter to Angela Maya, The New York Times Company, 620 8th Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Reference code required when applying: Software Engineer in Test 54266-197."

Speechless. Is it common approach to use post mail for application?
Can someone go more into what is meant by framing and anchoring?

Is this like 'sandbagging?'

Does one fail on purpose to set a low standard so that they can have an easier time reaching a goal?
I see what you mean. I'll be more thoughtful in the future.
Don't know R-type, but Rockman did speech [1] on a machine whose buzzer only admited 2 states (some sort of PWM?), and Uridium [2] did multicolored characters by changing colors in interrupts handled in controlled TV scan-lines.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFrOHDDXrU
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8rGc4Osu4
Yes, but there are a few details that ars is not mentioning. They didnt just "access" the website. The website needed registration. These people had registered accounts. They did not stumble upon it by accident. Then the malware was limited to those accessing the "hardcore" section. Those accessing only legally grey-area material (ie nude but no sex acts, or images where age was questionable) were not caught up. Deliberately trying to access material you know is illegal, then actually doing so, is a crime.

There were no doubt other steps taken to limit the field of people to charge. Shared computers and shared IP addresses (vpns, school networks etc) seem to have been deselected. The man living on his own, with his name attached to a non-proxied internet connection, makes for an easy prosecution. They must have a far longer list of suspects ... who may now be on some sort of watch list. I suggest they think twice about boarding an international flight with a laptop. Expect to be randomly searched.
I'd highly recommend using Mozilla's wiki instead which is also much more likely to stand the test of time and be a good resource in the future too: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS. It also contains good rationales for which combinations of ciphers to chose in which cases and lots more useful information than "just do this".

The associated configuration generator can be found here: https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat....
It was a sarcastic response to toyg's belief about social mobility in 1850s referring to the auction poster in the link provided, but whatever. Enjoy your echo chamber.
I wish that your posts could be as synthetic as your code and your code as expressive as your posts... that would open an universe for me and probably for a lot of people.
This isn't useful because the printed house lacks wiring, plumbing, and finishes and is also an example of wasteful land use. The occupant of this house will indirectly demand roads, power, water, and sewer systems and most likely parking for a car as well. If we accept that housing has become critical issue then we need to take it seriously and look at the whole problem and what aspects are the most costly. Currently planning, infrastructure impacts, and labor intensive details are where most of the money goes. Basic construction is already competitively cheap.
I was literally just about to launch a consumer facing app on Digital Ocean this month...was I being incredibly naive?
Here's a really helpful resource for you

https://github.com/Xel/Blockchain-stuff
Also, it's easier to build a circular roof than an entire dome.
I had similar experience with MacBook 2015. Yes, the laptop did move, but that was less than 2" before the cable detached.
For APFS, I don't buy that it has anything to do with prioritizing one operating system or the other. APFS wasn't ready when Sierra was released, which is why it was included as a beta with limited functionality. It seems to be ready now, so it will be included in the next version of iOS (10.3), which is still in beta, and presumably the next major release of macOS.

The only difference is that it's being released in a minor update to iOS but will probably wait for a major update to macOS. But that makes sense, because macOS allows the user to customize partitions and filesystems, and allows running other operating systems - including Boot Camp, which Apple itself must provide drivers for, and Linux, which is waiting on Apple releasing documentation for their filesystem, as they have promised to do. By contrast, iOS has the same partition layout on every single device and no cross-OS compatibility concerns. Thus APFS on macOS requires more work and has greater risk of failure. For both reasons, regardless of Apple's priorities, it would be logical to start with iOS. Even if Apple did add stable APFS support to a minor macOS update, they probably want to auto-convert users to APFS eventually, but doing so in a minor update would definitely piss off technical users; they could make it opt-in to start with, but it's easier to just wait.

The next version of macOS is only a few months away; really not a big deal.

(I agree that Apple seems to be prioritizing iOS in some areas; I just don't think APFS is one of them.)
I hear it's Command-O.
I agree that the wording is odd if as you say they intended it to only be "on github", through there is one problem. The rights granted by 2 can't be used in isolation from 1 and 3.

If you ran the program locally by accessing the content through the GitHub Service, without reproducing the content, 2 should grant you the right to use, display and perform the content. I don't see how you could do that using anything requiring a linker, but I can see how agpl javascript could be in danger if script tags on a website can be linked directly to a file on a github. In that way the content is "access through the GitHub Service", used locally by the browser, but depending on legal theory, not reproduced.

In the general case however it is hard to use, display or perform content for which someone can't access or copy.
Why isn't the landowning rentier class extorting everybody through higher and higher food prices?
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The global demand thing is a temporary market condition. It's purely a function of the need for kleptocrats in a few countries to launder money, and the willful blindness on the part of various governments. That will eventually change.

Even then, locality still matters. The children of chinese industrialists or party officials aren't buying property in Littleton, NH. Just in places like NYC, Miami, Vancouver, etc.

Like anything real estate, boom leads to bust. Mere millionaires will be living it up in NYC penthouses again soon enough.
OH boy--
A couple of relevant things I just thought of:

- http://www.goldsborough.me/google/internship/2016/11/18/01-5... - has some interesting tidbits; for example, I would not mind a visit to the Google Store :)

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea... - The last paragraph in this recent AMD AMA was a real "OH I get it now" eyeopener for me about NDAs and not announcing stuff AOT; tangentially related
There are no slam dunks in cases like this? I would have at least had a lawyer send a letter and maybe file the case to see if they would have released the funds. I don't think they have legality to keep what he has earned even if it was from a thousand or two dollars in illegal clicks. Their system can decipher bad from good clicks, then it can tell you how much is rightfully owed.
The Hangul characters are the instructions, not string literals; in fact, the language has no string literals.

The code is building up the Unicode codepoints for "Hello, world!" as numbers in memory, and running instructions to print them.
> When I wanted to read, I increased dopamine and decreased GABA by increasing caffeine and lowering l-theanine and phenyl-GABA. When I wanted to work, I increase caffeine and l-theanine while lowering phenyl-GABA. When I wanted to open my ideas to criticism, I increased caffeine and increased hemp oil. When I wanted a dreamless sleep, I increased phenyl-GABA. When I wanted to experience vivd dreams, I lowered the hemp oil and the caffeine and added acetylcholine.

Better living through chemistry.
I do embedded dev; at any time I have 2-6 serial-USB adapters hooked up to my MBP. They are all plugged into an external 10 port USB hub though, would be a little harder to do it otherwise.

Anyway, back to your point, I most certainly do NOT want DB-9 or DB-25 ports on my laptop. ;)
And yet they were first to market with 5K, and although not exclusive, make a point of citing color management as a priority in displays and software.
Abstract: The Art of Design
I'm sure someone can come along with a better description, but it's kinda like devops/sysadmin but specifically for data storage and access.

You could also look it up...
My company uses SAS extensively a large part of that is legacy (for the same reason we have a heap of Fortan code still). SAS has been in use here since the 80's. I have gone as far as porting some (non performance sensitive). C++ models into SAS because people in my org understand the language better.

I don't actually hate SAS and I'm very productive using it but at the same time I do feel that not knowing R limits my opportunities if I ever want to change jobs and work for an outside organisation.

We don't strictly use SAS for analytics. A big part of SAS we use is the "BI" side I don't know if that acronym is still in vogue but I'm talking about ad-hoc querying reporting etc. The kind of stuff one step above what you'd use a spreadsheet for if that makes sense.

I think where SAS excels is they have made it very easy for non experts to be productive with it. Kind of similar to MATLAB in engineering world if people are familiar with that.

A lot of non statiscians and non programmers use it inside my work (my background is engineering). Accountants, Managers, mechanical engineers etc are all pretty capable of using Enterprise Guide to run adhoc queries and generate reports and the like. The only other similar tool I'm aware of is IBM's Cognos. We used to use both packages (as well as Microsoft Access) but about 10 years ago the business agreed to standardize around SAS. I've heard there is a similar tool in the R world to Enterprise Guide (R-Studio I think???) but I'm not all that familiar with it I've heard it behaves more like an IDE rather then a drag and drop way to construct queries, graphs/reports etc.

If anyone has made the transition from SAS (or Cognos) to R (especially for a large org) I'd be keen to hear what tools you'd recommend and how the business found it?
Very often, the majority of GPU IO traffic is textures. No form of text file is the most effective representation for them.

However, in my comment I didn’t meant text files. I meant that in *nix, a GPU itself is a single file, /dev/dri/cardN. All that GPU’s complexity is squeezed into a single ioctl system call for that special file. The approach is IMO one of the reason why Linux still doesn’t have reliable 3D acceleration support.

Here’s a long article why Linux ain’t ready for desktops, note the author listed 3D acceleration on the top:

https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
is it a good idea if I don't have any experience on that field?
AMS-IX in Amsterdam is primary EU IX.
Looks cheap to build, impossible to modify or fix.
> reduce cognitive barriers to entry to programming for a large portion of the world

Not really, consider most of the established code/programming materials is in English. Learning programming is far more than learning the syntax of one language.

English is much bigger than the population of its native speakers. Frankly speaking, if a project is not presented in English on github, I won't take it too seriously.

Disclaimer: English is not my mother tongue.
The only way to make it grow is through investing it. The more risk you take on, the higher it has the chance to grow. However, at the same time you have an increased risk that you'll lose your investment.

A money market account is safe and leaves your liquid assets in a state where you can get them easily. The downside is a poor rate of return.

Tax-exempt bonds (local, state or federal) are an attractive option provided that the rate of inflation doesn't exceed your rate of return or reduce it to effectively nil.

Another sensible option would be to pay off any debts you have. Your income is your best way to grow wealth, and every dollar you pay in interest is a dollar taken away from your future earnings. Even though this isn't as exciting an option as putting your money in the stock market, this might be your best bet longer-term.

If you have no debt, then the $50k would go a long way towards a down payment on a home - that way you can stop paying rent, which is another source of wasted earnings.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12176837
Bottom of the page gives the cost of the foundation -- $277. It also does have an insulated roof, heating, a sink, a bathroom, etc. Electrical, they probably used a wall chaser/cutter to put a groove in to lay the conduit, which was covered when they surfaced the wall. Finish work like that is really similar regardless of the house, and is not really different from what you'd do with a brick surface, etc.
Induction stovetop spots are usually one big coil fed at a high frequency, right? How do the phases of the power supply matter?
The correct solution to this problem is insurance. If the risk is say 0.1% and you get 1k per month in rent for 1 year then. The insurance could pay out up to 1 million and cost 100$ per month leaving a huge net gain.

However, even if it takes 3 years to elect someone that's not even close to 1M in damages.
We did an experiment at work.

Half the group was asked if they thought a person was above 165cm tall, which he was.

The other group was asked if they thought the same person was below 190cm, which he also was.

Then after, both groups were asked to guess his height. The second group guessed significantly higher than the first. Since both groups were told a number first, their response got anchored/biased towards that value.
I don't have time to start a business, otherwise I wouldn't ask (see the title). I just look for ways to make it more with doing one time jobs (like investing, buying selling etc.) which I don't have to do the thing on a regular basis but one time and make it 51k after some time, for example.
> Linux is still as bad as it ever was.

I agree, but why do this? Has it ever led to anything in your experience that was not a pointless and tiresome flame war?
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I think (good, thorough) documentation is probably a good example. Unnecessary early, when everything is in flux, but critical later, when there's too much for one person to know.
Exactly. They're very cheap, anywhere beteween $5 and $15. Cheap enough to basically add them to every ethernet drop where you regularly sit.
So a journalist should use a dumbphone, where every text and call is transmitted in the clear, and the contents of the address book is stored unencrypted, rather than buy an iPhone and leave it at home when attending sensitive meetings?
I've learned to right-click the title on the toolbar, which shows a dropdown of folders above the current one, which you can select to go up.
GABA can be difficult for some people to take. It has complex neurological effects that build up over time. It might make sense to be especially cautious with the GABA content and keep it apart from the rest.

I base these remarks primarily on two examples of relatives who used GABA for pain control, had initial success which tapered off, and later ended up feeling much better after stopping GABA use and having a period of roughly two weeks of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Anecdotes are not data, but everything has to start from experience.
Index funds don't require you to manage your investment. Basically, there is a simple rule set the fund follows to diversify your portfolio and grow your money. Unlike managed funds, there aren't fees to the fund manager to eat into the profit/growth rate.
>> The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop"

What is it missing? It's been a while since I really wanted a feature in the desktop OS. All of the 'phone' features (besides launchpad) have made my life a lot easier (continuity, handoff, notification centre, even Siri from time to time).
Correct on both points. I started with a uniform field because it requires 10% of the energy- it would mean building a distributed network of satellites, but if we're inserting exajoules of energy into near-mars orbit, making a lot of satellites is probably within our means.

50,000 nT was their suggestion of what actually starts providing relevant protection. 5,000 nT was where they started seeing it at all, which would be 10^16 joules/2 megatons of TNT. I believe the massively stronger field is needed because the protection they are looking at for terraforming would need to be much better than Earth's. We still lose 94,608 tonnes of hydrogen annually to atmospheric escape, despite having 263% stronger gravity.
Does anyone else deeply distrust Vox?

There was never any reason to trust them. I had hopes that the new thing from the Wonkbook dude would be interesting if not also quite useful. Imagine my disappointment to find Ezra just decided just to cash in and spin up yet another hollow, low rent, news blog crafted to target the American left.

Scott Alexander's "Reverse Voxsplaining" articles and The Federalist's occasional trouncing of Vox should be more than enough to kill any lingering notion the Vox brand is interested in journalism.
The one specific cultural constraint I'm talking about is the where, when, how, and who may have children. It would seem like the overwhelming majority of cultures pay special attention to this.
Not so long ago the best upgrade to your WinPC was to put an SSD in it. Huge difference.

Win8 killed momentum, stagnation ensued.

But, then GPU kicked it up a notch. The new 1080 is insane, but in itself that is not that cool.

The new killer upgrade is the display. After a whole decade of nothing suddenly there was a huge bump.

I just upgraded to an Ultra-Widescreen Acer Predator.
Mind. Blown.
Combine it with a 1080 (or the new 1080Ti) and your PC makes a whole generational leap forward.

And right at this moment in time, Apple stops making display and chooses shitty LG as the maker of choice.

Yes, Apple is losing the desktop, 100%.
It very possibly is.

Society is not a software algorithm.
DigitalOcean accepts PayPal.

Does anybody else?