skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of excitement about compiled languages lately, and many seem to wonder if interpreted languages are dying. Unfortunately I don't see the value of a good REPL brought up in those conversations very often.
The problem with this attitude is the next generation will then only have only have the offspring of non environmentally conscious people.

You shouldn't trade the chance to shape the culture of the next generation to be more environmentally conscious for the short term quick fix of reducing your environmental impact right now.
I don't think it tells them that. There is not much incentive to provide any vendor with a special altruistic dispensation when you're already getting the desired experience at no cost. This is the case regardless of the value or importance of the experience provided.

The simple fact is that if people don't have to pay for something, most of them won't. And that makes plenty of sense.
Anti-inflammatory drugs may lower heart attack risk
Took a development job mid-30s (this year) after being a senior engineer but without any coding. It's been very difficult to be essentially a junior, while everyone's expectations are that you are far higher.

Enjoyable in a lot of respects though, the biggest issues are all around expectations. I think I'm doing better than I have any right to be doing, but am far worse than any peer. Dealing with that dance is difficult.
What's your blog/domain?
I think I would view this as the watchmaker equivalent to making Commodore 64 demos in present day. It is utterly pointless, serves no practical purpose, and achieves effects that would be tremendously easier if obtained through a different method. But, it isn't there for the purpose of achieving those effects, but rather for showing off one's mastery of a craft.
Google implicitly forbids users by holding the website owner liable.

Years ago, I had a small site that ran banner ads. A couple of users found the site really useful so they clicked on lots of ads thinking that it would help the site. Unsurprisingly, I got banned, even though my visitors had the best intentions.
My daughter had an intolerance to cow's milk. We were advised to try soya instead, which her tummy also didn't like. Next we tried oat milk (Oatly being one of the brands) and she loved it. Actually, the rest of us tried it too, and liked it so much that we no longer have any cow's milk in the house.
The classic Queenslander house is built up high so it can stay cool and probably also good for a flooding scenario.
Some reminders: everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law in the USA.

there have been quite a few people arrested now who traveled from a non-extradition country to an extradition one (btce guy, this guy, malwarenews guy [though he was UK])

it seems someone in the US thinks it's fun to just swipe people up on suspicion, so let's try not to assume they're instantly guilty
Seriously doubt that Metacritic would have movies that IMDB would not, as Metacritic entries exist, ostensibly, when a movie is reviewable. IMDB has listings for every kind of movie project (in-development, pre-production).
Very nice.

Small nitpick: I think "In the meantime ... have a game of skifree :)" would be prettier (note the 3 dots).
ThreadRipper is only a month or so old I think, so there wouldn't be many yet.
http://www.phoronix.com/
Is there value to these devices beyond timekeeping and resale?
Wings have lost all meaning.
This article seems to be completely misrepresenting Texas's own projections, which they cite in the article. Texas is expecting to see an increasing influx of Hispanic residents (10+ million more Hispanic residents by 2050) [0], while all non-hispanic groups see much more modest increases in population.

The US census published that, in 2015, 65,000 people moved from California to Texas while 41,000 people moved from Texas to California [1]. While this is a meaningful difference, especially given that California has about 10 million more people, it isn't the mass-exodus of Republicans that I've been seeing as the narrative from NPR and Vice lately (I assume other news outlets are also running stories about this?).

If this trend continues, we should expect roughly 720,000 people (30*24,000), plus some fudge-factor to adjust for population increases across the board. Given Texas's own estimates, I'm going to assume these are mostly hispanic migrants, which have also tended to be more democratic leaning [2]. The conclusion seems to be that Texas may start moving more liberal in the next 30 years driven primarily by hispanic migrant voters, not that conservatives will find a continued safe-haven there.

[0] http://demographics.texas.gov/Resources/Publications/2014/20...

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geograph...

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/15/unlike-other...
I like a good interpreted language as much as the next guy, but there are REPLs for compiled languages. Pretty sure Scala has one and maybe Haskell
I spent way too much time on this game as a kid. Thanks for the brilliant game. Was a lot of fun to play. Multiplayer would have been awesome...
Yes only text for now. some URL (youtube, twitter) will have preview. might add file support but the original purpose was just to send links.

yes I agree 4 digit is too short, bumping this up to 6 digit
now ;) ... but i wanted to keep this really simple. btw the pin will only work once. and hoping Cloudflare will help a little bit against brute force attacks until i add CAPTCHA into the connect page. thanks.
What a perfect Streisand effect. I am going to check that so much polarising AdNaus...thingie.
As far as I've read, the ordinary definition of a tech company is one that pays employees partially in stock (options).
> If you don't like the rules, you are welcome to not participate.

Playing your ads in my browser is "the rules" now?

If you want to claim it's "the rules", you need a paywall.

Oh, you're not putting up a paywall? Fancy that.

Do you offer legally enforceable indemnity against people getting malware from ads you serve? If not, then you can't really tell them not to block the ads.
Though, they are lacking the magic of a REPL in CL. Hotspot replacement in JVM languages is neat compared to the magic of redefinitions in CL.

And it seems nobody ever tries hooking a REPL up to a running system anymore.
Makes sense not to move if you own a home. Property will be hardest to sell right after disaster.

Let alone moving means you need to convince your Family and their other family and their other family's family to move etc. Or go it alone but ties like that are strong.

Is everyone on HN moving to their optimal place regardless of friends or family considerations?
Ad networks don't follow the same laws which all advertisement companies have to follow in all other form of media, so why should people have to pay in order to get rid of them? This is the wild wild west, and paying the bandits to go away is always a bad idea.

What would happen if reddit had to use a ad network that vetted every single advertisement they displayed and took legal responsibility that local advertisement laws was followed? In my case there would be no advertisement towards children, no tobacco or alcohol, and no drugs or medical advice. There would naturally also be no scams or misrepresenting information. If we go as far as to the same standard as advertisement in a news paper, we also get no tracking. How much would reddit users have to pay in order for reddit to live on only the same rate as a printed paper get from advertisement?

Advertisement supported news papers are generally free so would it be possible that the reddit price would also be free?
And why is that any worse than the current situation with humans?
Researchers Bring Atomic Clock Timestamp Precision to Stock Market Trading
After learning a bit of Latin American history and what's goin on in Yemen, Syria, it'd seem appropriate to rethink our definition of 'terrorist'
> They arrest you for weed, but not for running an anti-establishment site

Funny you say that, because arresting people for weed started as a way to arrest people running antiestablishment sites ;) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-r...
What do you mean with "picking them all up?"
(1) Managing Infosys is one part of his resume. (2) Both are big companies - Uber has 12k employees + 300k contractors, Infosys has 200k employees, both have operations in many countries. (3) Sikka moved Infosys towards investing in AI/ML and building enterprise products with state-of-art automation. (4) Contrary to popular perception, Infosys is a valued company in many respects including HR policies, growth, and frugal innovation.
Wow, I honestly didn't know that corruption was the intended target of the cash ban. I thought it was just another attempt at "look at how modern we are".

I didn't know corruption ran that deeply in India, and that buying foreign trips for a client is the new equivalent of a golf game + dinner.

We truly do not live in a meritocracy, and human nature will find a new outlet for greed and trickery as we clamp down on corruption... :(
I think Dell has an exclusivity agreement of some kind for the first year. If you go on the Dell website there are Zen workstation available.
> Those people are free not to visit our website.

If you meant that, you'd have a paywall up.

Do you offer legally enforceable indemnity against people getting malware from ads you serve? If not, then you can't really tell them not to block the ads.
>if things turn so badly to shit you need a year of food, food is going to be the least of your worries.

I don't see why this is the case -- saying "doing X is going to be the least of your worries" seems to imply that there are going to be other priorities and "X" will be ignored -- i.e. "charging your phone is going to be the least of your worries." But food... you _need_ food, even if there are other crazy things happening all around you. If that's the case, I can't help thinking it would be better to do the things you CAN do to prepare. One less thing, etc.
Day old thread but I can't resist 8)

The basic ideas are sound as you say but there is a huge difference between basic ideas and practical reality. I doubt anyone has looked into the localized stability of say 240m^3 chunks of a volcano's structure. That's the size of a flat of 10x10x2.4m.

This thing is a termite mound scaled up to human size and is absolutely terrifying to me. How would it deal with say an earthquake? I mentioned resonance as the curse of Civ Eng earlier and this thing is absolutely huge - who can predict what weird oscillations might occur due to wind loadings and counter them? Do you engineer it for a 1 in 100 year or 1 in 10000 year event? Given climate change, do we even know what a 1 in 10000 year event even is any more?

You may have heard about a fire in a tower block in London recently. The Grenfell tower disaster (amongst many others) show that whilst we are capable of building huge structures, economics and base stupidity will strike. That was a few 100 people of which 80 odd died. This beast would house up to 1,000,000 people.

I am pessimistic because we have plenty of history to look at and this thing is too big to fail, yet we are unable to do the basics yet. Grenfell should not have happened and neither should many other tower block disasters.

The floor plan of this thing is 36km^2 who knows what weird effects might happen in a building that covers that area. It would be a right bugger to discover that you really should have put say huge rubber washers into each joint to damp vibrations afterwards. Heck, 6km is enough to have to worry about the earth's curvature. This is God, (sorry, $DEITY) sized engineering. Try and hold an image in your mind of a 36km^2, 4km high space frame with cells of say 20x10x2.4, pin joint all elements. Reduce the structure to lines. Now bend and twist it. My mental model wobbles like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange but some of the loads will be absolutely huge and I can't be arsed to quantify them: I know. Try perturbing say one corner and watch it propagate.

Capability is not the same as responsibility.
While I mentioned this in another comment, the US census has the net migration between California and Texas as about +20,000 net per year moving to Texas in 2015 [0]. I believe the narrative is wrong, but there does seem to be movement towards Texas.

[0] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geograph...
This watch reminds me a lot of the Antikythera mechanism [1]; exquisite mechanical engineering and design, most advanced materials science of the day, implementing the astronomical theory of the day, but never to be disseminated as a mass-manufactured product. If one of these watches survives a couple thousand years, then if our future descendants guess (like we did for the Antikythera) that it was for a wealthy patron, then they'll be right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Only some of them are. There is a very broadly diverse resistance to Google's influence on terran politics.
Maybe. To me it simply shows that removing ads is not a big enough benefit make people pay. Which makes sense because people are now used to ads. They will consume the content either way.
This is true; however, some people (me included) think that the harm ads do outweighs the benefits of free services.
Java is getting one with the upcoming Java 9 release.
"knowingly causing damage"? Is this a joke?
except perl
Google Research: “Male, White, and Wearing Glasses” Considered Harmful
Ah, capitalism. Who wants the free association of individual producers as labourers when you can have wage labour and the cycle of capital crisis in a commodity economy backed up by the State acting on behalf of the property owners for the benefit of the rich to the detriment of the poor as Adam Smith noted even in the 18th century?

The free market was so called because it is free from control of its participants :)

Edit: To be clear, I'm arguing against capitalism as a manifestation of freedom, I'm sure we both agree that patents and copyrights should not exist in a free society, though.
I in particular enjoyed the narrative it was woven into -- following the steps of the investigation bit by bit.
You seem to be using SublimeText, check out SublimeREPL extension[https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL/blob/master/README.md]. Once setup you'll be able to evaluate code blocks in a running REPL :) Also, Emacs modes of most languages with REPLs will have this functionality inbuilt.
For the past couple of years I have been the lead designer of C#. Anders and I took a break to help create TypeScript, and then he stayed on as it's lead designer, while I returned to take over C#.

Anders and I meet every week to compare notes, and I make sure to get his input on major new features in C#.
Indeed, one of my favourite restaurants in the world is BBQ King in Sydney (Liverpool St). Mind you it has been 15 years since I last ate there but the décor was always 20 years behind, serviceable and well used. The clientèle was always broad with a skew towards the low key. But what most people didn't realise is that quite often you would find chefs from Sydney's Michelin establishments eating there. The food was to die for; their BBQ sauce was a bottle full of smokey heaven. What's more the prices were very very reasonable. Indeed too many people miss out on some of the wonders of this world because they don't want to be associated with "that type" (whatever "that type" maybe).
"publishers SHOULD be compensated for their work"

with respect...

_employees_ should be paid for their work

_businesses_ OTOH are not entitled to ANY income regardless of the cost to create their products or anyones opinion on how valuable those products are.
I'd call this deprivation of freedom of thought
That's why ad blockers are essential for normal people just to have security. We literally can't trust newspapers not to serve up toxic waste.

Perhaps you can be trusted! But nobody knows that, and it's reasonable to presume otherwise.

Put it this way: do you offer legally enforceable indemnity against people getting malware from ads you serve? If not, then you can't really tell them not to block the ads.
Fashion, novelty, and conversation all spring to mind.
Simple.

Imagine it's your job to hire a new CEO for a gigantic corporation. Do you take the safest option and hire a CEO with CEO experience? If not, and if the inexperienced CEO failed, how do you expect to justify your keeping your job?

Money makes the world go round. Anything else is CYA.
Awesome, anyone want to buy me a Birthday present :)
Eclipses and Decibels
At a guess: if the price falls too much it becomes uneconomical to mine it.
JuiceBox Games (mobile game company who has shut down by now) used Redis as primary data storage for their game HonorBound. Their engineering team wrote about this on their blog (unfortunately Web Archive link since the site no longer exists): https://web.archive.org/web/20160229104854/http://blog.juice... It sounds like they weren't completely happy with the decision from the conclusion at the end.

Some of my personal projects I've also taken to use Redis as primary data storage. Due to the small scale, I haven't had any issue. I find it really nice and easy for small projects because you don't have to spend time on data schemas like SQL databases, and you also don't have as high of hardware requirements like Couchbase.
Uber's CEO Search Is Nearing a Decision
Not worth my time, but I'd upvote someone who did ;)
Hmmm, anything equivalent for Go?

Vendoring in Go is nice and all, but it doesn't really touch on alerting for when vendored (etc) packages announce security problems needing an upgrade.

To me, this seems like an actual problem the Go ecosystem could benefit from addressing well. :)
Why do people get so funny about quitting their job? You're allowed to quit, it's ok!

You don't owe your employer anything (professionally). If they don't like the fact you left, that is quite literally their problem.
> Compiler slow (not scalable for FB/Google scale)

I don't have any dog in this fight(I write Java/Native mostly) however I'd don't quite follow what you mean by FB/Google scale. I would consider VSCode a pretty complex piece of software and my understand is it written in TS.

Have any concrete numbers you can share that makes it not meet your bar?
I would also add hot loading, aka the ability to change your code and get to the same point in the execution of the code.
But we're talking about people who install a program that purposely defrauds advertisers.
If you have to pick one, pick code reviews. Without them you really can end up with shitty code and not know about it for months or years and have it bite you. Unit tests without code reviews can be useless if they are testing the wrong things or not deep enough.
C# and F# do too.
Pyinstaller mentions that one of the maintainers does paid support. You mentioned it was commercial software, so perhaps just paying an expert to get things going makes sense.
"If let" could be easily mirrored by a pattern in C#, and we are starting to discuss that.

However, that's a new way to check for null in the language, where what we need is to recognize the ways people are already checking for null in billions of lines of code. Therefore, the priority is to do a good flow analysis that will just understand when a nullable variable can be assumed to not be null (e.g. after a check, a non-null assignment, etc.), and then let you dereference without challenge.
There is a really interesting episode of the UK show Grand Designs that follows someone in a flood prone area who built a house that essentially rests within its own drydock structure. Worth a watch if you find this sort of thing interesting and the show is fascinating in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16scx81p2w4
> I feel like I shouldn't feel ashamed when saying this, but here: mutation, imperative code & side-effect are kinda nice, and very much needed for a straightforward interop with e.g. existing JS/Obj-C/Java (hint hint) code.

Similar feelings...OCaml has mutability built in but you don't need it often. You can isolate its use to small areas of your code to keep it under control. If you went the Haskell route getting JS developers to adopt would be even harder.

> Also, speaking of native compilation: we're not reference counting but _some_ predictability when working with UI code is needed.

So the GC is well behaved with Reason scripts? I'm curious if you could use it for games.

Thanks for the insights. I haven't heard of Reason much to be honest which is a shame. I used OCaml as my main language for several years and going back to Java, Python and JavaScript was pretty painful!
For anyone considering QMail today, don't.

When QMail was initially conceived, Sendmail was king, and Sendmail was awful (from a security perspective). Today there are multiple very good alternatives to Sendmail (I've used Postfix for many years with no complaints), and QMail has seen very sparse development. While Postfix has a moderately less stellar security record, it's still pretty darned good, and still under active maintenance.

Many modern mail security features are either hacked onto QMail via patches from third parties (none of whom are as famous for their security chops as djb) or completely non-existent in QMail. The number of people running it today is extremely small, so you're going to find relatively few resources about it when you run into problems (and what resources you find will be very, very, very old, in most cases).

If you're wanting a similarly limited SMTP server that is under active maintenance, opensmtpd from the OpenBSD folks might be an option (though I've never used it). It, at least, has people looking at it regularly and supports basic features lacking in QMail, like encryption, without patches.

QMail has a tiny but rabid following (kinda like djb himself) who settled into their beliefs about the MTA landscape in 1998 and have ignored everything that's happened since. (Funny, or maybe just odd, story: When we removed qmail-ldap, an unmaintained patched version of QMail that adds LDAP authentication, from Virtualmin, I literally had someone bringing up companies that have been out of business for more than a decade as proof that it was still in active use and we should keep maintaining support for it, even though no one has asked a question about it in our forums in eight years. It was the most bizarre technical conversation I've had in a while. I was like, "But, umm...they have no website and every mention I can find of that company is from 2006. What makes you think they're still using qmail-ldap or would care that we're removing support for it?" Then again, they also wanted to rant for a couple dozen paragraphs about gay people oppressing them in our issue tracker and for an hour or so in our IRC channel, so he may not have been entirely connected to our reality.)
Ad networks consistently shit in the community well, and act outraged when people sell bottled water.
To me, it seems as if Europe (Germany and the UK, mostly) have drifted too far left. I'm surprised by what Churchill and Thatcher's country seems to be today.
That may be my own prejudices and limited information. Most of what I know of Europe comes from limited visits and reading of American publications.
If your non-action could be construed as sheltering/encouraging/aiding the illegal alien with employed in the USA, you're committing a felony. Other coworkers could of course report you for that felony. Here:

http://www.fairus.org/issue/the-law-against-hiring-or-harbor...
We're talking about people who install a program to defraud advertisers. The complaint was, "we're sticking it to people who censor and use social control."

"The rules" in this case are that censorship and social control (presumably) exist on the platform. If you don't like that, don't participate.

But don't say, "OMG censorship" and use that to justify defrauding advertisers while continuing to use the free site that you deride.