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> Scheme specifically doesn't specify how something should be implemented, just the result.

Then people implement it. Developers then choose the implementation based on the capabilities of those.

> Guile's methods are generic functions, like in CLOS, and get JIT'd like with Julia

Julia uses generic functions throughout and it has a JIT. Guile uses Goops almost nowhere and a JIT is not released.

If one would remove Goops from Guile, would anyone notice? That's what the manual shows: a collection of unrelated/unused features.
Making Git more accessible to non-developers (or people not comfortable with a command line) isn't some horrible thing like you're making it out to be.
I think Sublime is going too far the other direction in terms of being much simpler than VSCode.
I don't see how social media makes you a better parent. This marketing article is exactly whats wrong with millennial marketing. It reminds me of this video http://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=85922

OP also works for Winnie. Not that it's a bad thing or anything, but it is nice to know a marketing peace that is being actively promoted.
If you invest in a stock with the intention of selling it later, rather than holding it forever to earn the dividends, your decision was motivated by the expectation that there will be a market for it in the future.

By buying Facebook stock now, you're fulfilling that expectation of earlier investors, which motivated them to provide Facebook's initial funds.
> If you create a big series of regulations and taxes around drugs - then there will still be a huge secondary, black market.

this point is under appreciated. i see new taxes and regulations spring up on legalized cannabis in California. and, just like with the high taxes on a pack of tobacco cigarettes, some of the market goes underground. (except, with cannabis, it hasn't had time to fully emerge from the underground in the first place!)
"How are they planning to do that ?"

Probably by making more money, which this fundraise will help them do faster.
>Juniors needs good tools in order to eliminate potential bugs. Static typing is one of that tool.

Yes, I agree fully with you, it is excellent for training. My only gripe is against that "15%" claim and its implications.
Snarky comments like this really have no place here.
It's a fair point, but the solution isn't obvious. This book leads with Big Issues before explaining context and background, making it inaccessible to people who aren't already versed in the basics. But other (orthodox) intro books/courses never get to the big issues, leaving students with a stunted misunderstanding of how economics works in the real world and an overconfidence that they know how everything works.

I'd like to see a book like this blended with an orthodox textbook.
How is that any different from having to remember the argument order in normal function application?
What could be more geeky than a red LED Texas Instruments $9.95 watch from the 1970's?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Texas-Instruments-Series-500...

https://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/timeline/eps/19...
Search code from StackOverflow and paste it in emacs
Apple's HEIF vs. JPEG: Pros and cons to Apple's new image file format
The subtle sexism of hoodies: Women in SV have no idea what to wear to work
I sort of thought Almonds was _the_ reason we have migrating honeybees in the United States (or North America). In any case Zaiger Genetics have bred self-fertile Almonds that don't require bees. The trees are starting to be planted:
http://www.growingproduce.com/nuts/self-fertile-almond-domin... Almond trees take a significant amount of time to mature. While orchards can be retrofitted the irrigation infrastructure is typically installed before the trees are planted. This means that the water use of an orchard currently producing almonds was probably designed in the 90s. All the new orchards I see being planted are using drip. In 2030 I suspect the water use per kg of almonds will be much lower than it is today.
maybe allow people to scan pictures of stuff and put it into their inventory of stuff for a virtual world.
So, you didn't look to see what they discussed under that heading, to verify that your judgment was correct?
Not what I was hoping for. I use GitKraken for most of my daily Git stuff and the CLI when its needed.

I was hoping GUI for more administrative purposes. It would be cool to get desktop notifications when issues are created, code is pushed, etc. I have yet to see a tool/extension that integrated with GitHub this deeply.

It definitely seems like this could be useful for those who don't want to mess with the CLI (which is perfectly reasonable IMO).
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Saying cryptocurrencies have technical/economic value and that they are in a bubble of inflated value can both be true.

I've seen it likened to the Dot com bubble. Sure several groundbreaking titans of the Internet were founded during that time. They are valued as major players in the world economy. But there were many more that were inflated and the sector as a whole was inflated.

Now, if you're a savvy enough investor to be able to pick the eventual winners during a bubble, you'll come out great even after the crash. But if not, then you're just gambling. And the house will eventually win.
This is a trope and not useful for solving problems of culture, psychology, or addiction. It is the same as saying "when you ban guns, only criminals will have guns" or "everyone has a choice, so choose not to do drugs". These are vapid recitations and cannot address complex issues.
It is truly a tragedy of the commons. It makes sense for the individual to consume their content, they're not giving up much by themselves. The problem arises when everyone does it.
I decided to install this on a new OSX given I thought newer would be better but I hope this isn't representative of consolidation of a cross-platform Desktop App as it's measurably worse than both existing GitHub Desktop for Windows and OSX.

I hope they don't discontinue their existing Windows and OSX Desktop Apps because this experiment is a value downgrade.
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The web gentrified. Geeks don't live there anymore, they only go there for their jobs. Time to build something newer and cooler.
What about people who cannot still compete despite the injections? Should we allow them to affix a lawnmower engine to their bike and race the Tour de France? The point you came here attempting to prove inevitably leads to absurdities. Some sort of criterion is needed for sport to remain competitive and interesting. "Make do with what you were born with" seems like the most natural one to me.
From this project, I gather it wouldn't be hard to remove the need for calling `lisp!` on every form.

Then you'd have a lisp syntax on Rust that is not embedded. Is that correct?
Apparently they employ 70ish people. That's essentially the 7.5m gone on payroll.
Innovation is, by definition, not very respectful of the past or the status-quo. Innovation is, by definition, mutiny.
That strikes me as an odd opinion. It sounds like you're saying that you appreciate an artificial decrease in cryptocurrencies' value or hype because you think there are other things artificially increasing it.
Economics is a mathematical science that is tortured into a practical policy regime. Economists say that misapplications aren't their fault, and policy makers say that they are just applying economics. The problem isn't with economics, per se, it's that economics is given a privileged spot in the curriculum over, say, "socioeconomics"
Wah wah wah.
HTA anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
Project loon balloon crash lands in rural kenya
I'm not familiar with that case, but I don't think an accusation that using a text mode browser like Lynx constitutes "hacking" would stand up to any type of scrutiny. (I'm not a lawyer and I'm in the US; things may differ in the UK).

Lawyers will make the most egregious leaps and grasps to paint the opposing party in the worst light possible, especially in the early stages of the case, because if they don't claim that Lynx is a "hacker's tool" in the initial pleadings, then it may be looked upon with suspicion if they try to raise that point later. So they are essentially trying to reserve as many potentially beneficial claims as they can at once, including (and especially) any claim that may portend that the other party is a devious scoundrel with the worst possible intentions.

Lawyers will thus front-load with every kind of tenuous, ridiculous accusation they can (without presenting a significant risk to the licensing), expecting some of it to get "laughed out of court", just so that on the off chance that it doesn't, it will help their case.

I'm sure a real lawyer would contest that to some extent, and I'm sure there is slightly more nuance to it than that, but that is my layman's assessment and I think it is roughly accurate.

The takeaway is not to take legal pleadings too seriously, because the goal is not to find justice per se. It is for your side to win, to get what it wants, under the assumption that that automatically represents justice.
GitKraken is the best GitUI I've ever used. I highly recommend it. I use it for personal projects and at work. Professional License is really reasonable.
You are right, I should have say "providers" with new "resources" and yes, this new registry is for modules, not providers.
Did you even try it? Looks great and sits idle at 0% CPU and 55MB. As for the GUI, many people prefer it, myself included.
the "no headphone jack" thing seemed pretty evil to me. also, all of the monopolistic app store practices really aren't awesome.

the new specs for the Mac Book pro are also a joke for the price, and wtf is that touch bar crap.

also, paying 800-1000$ for a phone is ridiculous
it seems like the pin entry has to be associated with the card
That's the key: that perceived/predicted and realized utility are different, and we focus too much on consumers horrible mismeasure of predicted utility.
Ask HN: What type(s) of companies let you keep your own IP?
From my (limited) experience, it seems like tech startups are the least likely to let employees keep their own IP.

I'm wondering what types of companies/which industries are the most likely to let employees keep IP over side projects they work on outside of office hours.
which (at this point in time and in the foreseeable future) they definitely do.
New Zealand isn't a party to that WIPO treaties [1], but it does have a law implementing restrictions on circumventing Technological protection measures (TPM) [2]. But unlike the DMCA, the NZ law lists lots of exceptions that allow you to circumvent TPMs. In fact it says "Nothing in this Act prevents any person from using a TPM circumvention device to exercise a permitted act under Part 3." Part 3 of the Copyright 1994 [3] is the (very long) part that lists everything you can do with a copyrighted work, including the NZ equivalent of fair use, research, education, archiving, backup, decompiling software, etc, etc.

[1] http://www.copyright.org.nz/international.php

[2] http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2008/0027/latest/D...

[3] http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1994/0143/latest/D...
Did you actually tried it and did it use 4GB of RAM for you? I did and it used about 120 MB of RAM, which is not tiny, but not even in the ballpark of your figure.

I know hating Electron apps is the new fad, but it would be nice to check the facts before you grab your fork.
I for one always do my commiting and pull requests in the github app despite being able to use the command line. I love the way it shows me what’s changed, provides a nicer UI around selective commits (I prefer many small logically atomic commits), and then allows me to create a PR from inside (which the git client doesn’t). It’s also a nice way to view history and jump around in diffs.

Not sure why you’d bash it — the git cli is far from perfect and I for one welcome other perspectives on solving collaboration.

Now changing it to electron is another matter... I only have so much ram guys! With slack, Spotify, vscode, and a browser open on the same machine I’m screwed!
So maybe bubbles are created by quick changes in the financial landscape, whether due to government or technology?
The 7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter
Yes, exactly. 3D scans of objects, room mapping, robot brain...
Building an API – Using API Documentation to Overcome 4 Key Challenges
I'm not saying there's definitely no astroturfing there, but that doesn't sound like strong evidence of it.
I use debian images for my infrastructure on VPS providers. Can anyone tell me what makes this "container specific"?
Have you ever tried Git Extensions. I love it.
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Conceptually it's not that different. Practically, it's pretty different because you're effectively fragmenting a single function application across your codebase, making it harder to reason about and more likely to make ordering mistakes.
I find it very dubious that the "Income Inequality" sits at the very first section, and "Supply-and-demand" at the eighth. I'm no established economist, but my understanding is you start at the foundational idea then move on to the its ramifications and symptoms.

Why does the income inequality deserve the first seat? It definitely is one of the greatest(if not the greatest) issues of our generation, but must it precede foundations?

Skimming through the "Income Inequality" section did not make it better - first exercise asks "What do you think the figure would've looked like in 14th century - I imagine it's to highlight how it's "unfair" now compared to the previous history? It talks about the 90/10 ratio and the word "richest" appears 21 times in the first page alone. "richest 10%" being 11 of them.

I understand the study of economics is more about interpretation of the data and interpolation of trends based on (often seemingly ideological) school of thought, but this first look betrays a specific narrative.
There's a link in the article to an Android app they created called Skimmer Scanner that does exactly this.
And there are dozens of you making over $30k per month!!

Is there any way of browsing these creators? How many creators make money at the rate of $40k per year? Also, is there a typical curve that earnings follow over time?
Hmm? Even among fans of the book, the book's incorrect explanation of money creation is the main criticism:

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/the-core-economic...
I guess it's a bit more specific than you meant it, but our standard Python image is ~20MB (alpine + python3, basically); that's still under half of minideb.

Does look interesting for things that need glibc compatibility though. There are some packages to help with that in Alpine but they only go so far.
Website engineers, database engineers, iOS developer(s?), android developer(s?), website designers, customer support (both for creators and patrons), fraud team (this is huge because they deal with a lot of money and a lot of transactions, they need to be on the look out for money laundering, etc), accounting, administrative, and probably more that I am not thinking of right now.
My issue is with caddy.

FYI, the issue a few months back wasn't "software breaks".

It worked exactly as they designed and implemented it.
The original issue was closed, before (as seems to be a pattern lately) they changed direction when they received so much negative feedback about their highly opinionated choices for the project.

To this day the same logic is still in caddy, but with a longer grace period. Try starting caddy offline with a cert that expires in less than 7 days.

I don't trust someone to develop a server if they think failing to start at all, is better than starting with close to expired or even expired certificates.
What you describe (money as proxy for commodity) is one school of thought that is increasingly under attack in academic circles.

See for instance Money by Eric Lonergan; Debt by David Graeber; Money, The Unauthorized Biography by Felix Martin; Theory Of The Monetary Circuit by Augusto Graziani; Soft Currency Economics by Warren Mossler; Creating Economic Order by Michael Hudson; Debt and Economic Renewal in the Ancient Near East by Michael Hudson.

These argue that accounting systems (and even writing, according to some) grew out of interpersonal debt/credit relations. Money then grew out of these accounting systems, as a token representation of the abstract accounting entries. In this view, money is fundamentally a kind of social contract, rather than a representation of some stored potential trade-good.
It depends on what you are programming. If you are a student look no further than Linux. It is open, it is free, has a lot of documentation and it has the liveliest community.
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As a Linux user I feel pretty left out. I was looking forward to opening, closing it, and then going back to the terminal.
XUL applications were never that bad? At least Firefox, thunderbird and songbird, which are the three I'm aware of using. In the case of Firefox and thunderbird, I'd argue they were for a long time superior to their native competitors (FF2 for example easily bet the pants off IE6, Safari for Windows, Konqueror, was Epihany a thing then? though I will give Opera had a much more performance UI). As for Songbird, it had very low bars to beat WMP or iTunes/Windows or whatever media player your Linux distribution included that year.

That said, I didn't use Macs during that period, so maybe they were awful on Mac or something. I assume Camino existed for a reason.
I think they're more upset that it's on Electron.
They could buy the hardware and power needed to mine new coins. This seems to be the simplest solution for someone who wants to get a couple thousand bitcoins without leaving a paper trail.
Forex commissions are lower than 1%. Which exchanges offer better rates on a fiat/bitcoin/fiat transfer?
Biggest factor is where you live... because we all know that people are paid according to the value they create, and bits forged in places with high rent are inherently more valuable.
I fixed the link. I guess indenting it defeated the autolinking.
https://graphtreon.com/patreon-creators

Some creators have their earnings private.
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I'd say they're only more easily tracked than cash. It doesn't get much easier to track than a bank or credit card account. And of course cash has its own problems (namely, it's difficult or even illegal to get and transport in large quantities while maintaining some anonymity).
> growing number of Chinese nationals has been using Bitcoin to siphon money out of China over the past several years

Growing but irrelevant. The largest sums I've heard of being moved by Bitcoin are, at most, a few hundred thousand dollars. This pales in comparison to the invoice factories in Hong Kong, Taiwan, et cetera through whom hundreds of millions of dollars flow.

The CCP is worried about fraud in a way American regulators aren't because Chinese victims of ICOs are more likely to look to Beijing when they lose their money.

(Keep in mind that Bitcoin was fine until ICO promoters started pilfering from the masses. Also, China is loosening its capital controls in a bid to keep the renmimbi from overheating [1].)

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-capital-cont...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor financial advice. Do not launder money.
Are you sure you're not using the old native client?

I just installed the new client and it's using 421mb of RAM. You are right that it's idling at zero cpu though.
Yep. I like alpine and use it for my images for preference, but some things like getting Ruby on Rails working with therubyracer can bascially hit a wall in alpine, so this could be pretty handy.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/14/nhs-holds-on...
> The vocabulary there is unlimited, for all practical purposes

Don't know about Turkish, but for practical purposes Finnish dictionary is very much limited. Source: I'm a native (bilingual) Finnish speaker.
Let's do a little searching for "anonymous" in the memory hole:

http://www.newsweek.com/virtual-currency-bitcoin-anonymous-w...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/the-crypto-cur...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/bitcoin-inside-t...

https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/20/bitcoin-ven-and-the-end-of...

https://gizmodo.com/5803124/what-is-bitcoin

Hah. So the usual suspects were pimping it, in 2011, as "anonymous". Surprise!?

It's like the utopia of Internet sold in the 90s that predictably mutated into the global panopticon.

Always read the specifications. Always.
I asked this question in another thread but really haven't seen a satisfactory response yet:

David Karpeles admitted at trial to running bots on Mt. Gox, and such bots were implicated in the rise of Bitcoin's price up to $1000 in 2013. Bitcoin has experienced a similar jump in value over the past year. If Mt. Gox successfully manipulated the price of Bitcoin using bots in the past, how do we know other exchanges aren't doing the exact same thing right now?

Don't get me wrong, I think there is potential value in Bitcoin as a distributed/frictionless method of money transfer, however as an asset/investment I think it's extremely risky and I'm not necessarily sure the run up to $4000 reflects its underlying value: the ecosystem is largely unregulated and as such there is a greater risk of fraudulent activity and manipulation that would not be permitted under a regulated market. Especially if the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin transactions makes such manipulation harder to detect.

I am curious if anyone who has recently put money into Bitcoin has thought about this, and if so, what made them to decide to invest anyway? Am I just being paranoid?
There's some thing called Odysseus OTA. It required jailbreak and allows to downgrade to iOS 6. I'm not sure how to downgrade to iOS 8, may be it's not possible at all.
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Again that Euro-centric thing. Remember that Europe is a very small place. There are gas stations in places with spotty or no cellular coverage not only in the United States, but all across Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America.
The state of the Web
Really? I've not yet seen any software projects on patreon.
As someone strongly in favor of complete legalization across the board... I totally agree. And we have an example of this in (most of) the US with tobacco advertising.
This fallacy is discussed in detail in the article. Indexing (provided it is below 100%) does not increase the noise of prices, since the universe of active and passive investors are not trading with each other (except for some edge cases which are not significant). This means that increasing in indexing does not necessarily harm the resource allocation service provided by investors, until everything becomes really weird close to 100% passive indexing.
Here's his side of the story:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/when-si...
As long as the military doesn't buy them on Amazon.com, yea they probably would. Escrow of technical and IP documents is pretty common in industry procurement, I'd imagine that it's even more common in procurement for defense.
How Qi wireless charging works, and why it hasn’t taken over yet
How long did you leave it running? In my experience electronic apps tend to leak memory for some reason. Atom starts up at a couple hundred megs, and actually does end up at around 4GB. Same with Slack, although it's gotten better. I used to actually have a launchd script that killed Slack and restarted it every 30 minutes to keep the memory usage down.
The majority of the hash power is in China. If China can seize the miners all at once, they'll have control over the blockchain. At that point, other countries would be foolish to compete, and may focus on alternate alt currencies.
Thanks, this is where I got the data from:

https://dzone.com/articles/minideb-a-minimalist-debian-based...