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Haxe is basically several different things.

A language: It's language was originally designed to be a successor to ActionScript 3, as Haxe was originally designed to replace Flash.

A cross-compiler: The most interesting part in my opinion. Basically you can write Haxe code and target many, many different platforms. Mostly how this works is by transpiling, or translating the code into valid code in other languages.

A cross-platform standard library: This just means that it includes its standard library whenever it cross-compiles.

Ways to access native capabilities: Depending on your desired compilation target, you can use specific functionality only available on that target.
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The Tor bundle is necessarily less secure than something like Qubes. Tor and the browser should be separate. Advanced users are capable of evading fingerprinting in exactly the same way.
The author of that article can't possible have seen the episode in question, or has possibly seen only fragments of it — or he misinterpreted it — because his criticisms are completely false.
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On the other hand, lacking proof this comment chain amounts to nothing more than a smear.

"Vladimir Voevodsky alcohol" gives zero results.

Can we let one person's death be a little respectful? Just once.
Can you please elaborate on this exception:

"can be returned for what you paid for it"

This seems like a safe harbor if it's true! This is huge. So, an ICO with this clause would require the company to keep all the money raised on reserve, but then if the token goes up in price and never goes back down to the original level they can start using that surplus money. Kind of like a bank does with fractional reserve lending.

Do you have any more info on this?
If you look up "Quantitative Easing" you'll see that making trillions from thin air is exactly what the world's central banks do. But instead of giving it to people, they buy securities from banks, who are, as a result, the primary beneficiaries. QE-scale market activities aside, this general method is also standard monetary policy and the means by which new money is created.

Seen in that light, BI provides the opportunity for a whole new economic policy lever, by channeling new money to people rather than banks.
The Capital At Risk test seems to cover every crypto currency in existence. And it's used by many states.
That's the most neutral-point-of-view flight incident news article I've seen for quite some time. The whole site is so refreshingly level-headed.
Nonsense. Someone died. This is disrespectful and distasteful.

Elsewhere in the thread people are speculating he died of alcoholism. Just stop.
We can start lobbying for the United States to get rid of Puerto Rico.

The appeal of independence to Puerto Ricans at large faded once the advantages of belonging to a modern welfare state became apparent. Of those favoring a change of status in 2012, only five percent wanted independence; 61 percent voted for statehood.

Nowadays the place is—like the rest of the Caribbean behind a thin façade of rich-folk villas, tourist trinket markets, and tax-break corporate frontages—a slum. Thirty-five percent of the population is on food stamps; 35 is also the percentage of working-age Puerto Ricans actually in the workforce. Public finances are in a dire state: Debt is at $73 billion and bond issues are rated as junk.

Plainly the U.S. should be the one to get rid of this millstone. That’s easier said than done, though.
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I feel vindicated

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886125

People were pushing this a while back and the only thing I could see is easy exit for founders and everybody else left holding the bag.

Founders should have no early exit and ICOs make it so they can.
Personally... this looks confusing... perhaps just an Emacs thing, but I couldn't follow what was going on in the video. Or perhaps the yellow background really threw me off.
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Can we not? Do you think that they would have wanted the thread about their death to be filled with speculation about whether he killed himself or drank himself to death? No one knows anything, and even if they did it would be impolite to offer up that information.

He was a great mathematician. RIP.
If they cannot justify statehood then annex it to Florida.
Brief was excellent, as was the GUI version Crisp. Superb window split implementation.
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Nah, 4channers are more numerous and/or have more time on their hands.

Edit: besides, we are to collab, not compete.
37 now. I love when these things happen.
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Shipped what, a plagarized ad video?
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The word is voevoda (воевода) and, indeed, originally meant "a general".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voivode
So we shall believe that new dubious language with its runtime and each-time custom scripts magically turns high-quality, because the environment is complex and someone spent time and read a book in that area? Despite the fact that many users suffered security bugs in carefully managed world-grade quality products for decades and it still happens? Okay.

>chill out

and give me your money, right. Yet another soapy bubble.
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Check out hybrid contacts. I had similar issues with my astigmatism. The contacts have hard centers and soft outer rims. As a result they can provide decent astigmatism correction/stability while being __much__ more comfortable than hard lenses.

The things drastically improved my quality of life.
If you like this sort of thing, check out The Death of Yugoslavia [1]. It's an absolutely riveting BBC documentary series, in six parts, about the break-up of Yugoslavia, and about the subsequent wars and conflicts.

I love how how methodical, matter-of-fact and neutral this documentary is (or at least it seems to me); the filmmakers don't take sides, and they work only to explain a series of historical events, portraying all sides equally in the process. The British English narration doesn't hurt, either.

I rather prefer this format over Ken Burns', who turns up the emotional levels with personal "stories", folk music and photographs that look epic and timeless. Unfortunately, among documentarians, Burns' format is much more popular, probably because it's easier to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Yugoslavia
An example of what I'm thinking about, which I don't think Darcs can do (I'd love to be wrong):

Alice and Bob both branch off of master at the same point. In Alice's branch, she moves function `foo` into a different module/file. In Bob's branch, he changes `foo` to handle a new condition. Both wish to merge into master.

Whoever merges later is going to have a merge conflict, and have to resolve it manually, using their human understanding of the semantics of both changes. It's clear to me how that conflict should likely be resolved, but as long as those changes are presented as text diffs, I don't expect my VCS to be smart enough to figure that out on its own.

It would be interesting to explore other ways of representing changes, such that a computer would understand how to compose them in more situations like this.

You can quickly come up with examples of changes which conflict in a way that should probably always require human intervention: Say Alice and Bob each wish to assign the same constant to different values.

So, I don't expect that you could completely remove the need for developers to manually resolve tricky conflicts. At least, not without completely changing how we express changes to programs, which may well be a non-starter for practical purposes.
Some other useful points:

1. Transactions can be secured using public-key encryption. This way Bob can't spend Alice's coins (unless he has her key pair).

2. Wallets are typically a collection of public/private key pairs, where each pair is a ledger address/password combo.

Also, I could be wrong, but it looks like the example code will accept longer peer chains even if they're completely different.

Great article!
"Here is chapter 2, it's the only chapter you need" is not a summary of a book.

A summary is when you pull the relevant points out of the entire document.

Especially when the part quoted here was a quote inside the original article. The entire native text of the article was discarded.
Corporate lobbying is essentially bribery and should be illegal. Any attempt at corporate lobbying needs to be backed up by mandatory double digit jail sentences for the CEO and anyone else complicit in order for any law banning it to be effective. We're a long way from that becoming a reality.
Fair point. Thanks for clarifying, I see a difference now.
That’s not the only support the US has provided. But you would never know if you only watch CNN.
That is an arrogant and aggressive appeal to emotion. But even following that non-logic, as soon as someone dies we are supposed to turn our head off and to shut up? I think quite the contrary, we should think even harder why it happened, and learn from that. After all, it is a significant event, and, in this case, a loss for all of us.

Ironically, your comment was putting fuel into the fire of speculation because here we weren't even conversing about the details and circmustances of the death. Now, a debate about the danger of alcohol, and, more interesting, the causes of alcoholism would be helpful. Alcoholism often has a cause, in my experience. Is that really so? Are these causes identifiable and fixable? That are questions that I wish we knew more about.
Then you regret it as you endure extreme pain in the colon.
The way I did was by building side projects and showing my code off on github and things... Having a portfolio can help and then you just need to find one job to get a few years experience under your belt.
Have you seen the video?
She clearly says "“Again, this is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals and 12 pallets of infant food. Which, I gave them to Comerío, where people are drinking out of a creek." And
"What stands behind me is all due to the generosity of other people"

http://youtu.be/rtY9OtQ5vE8

What part of that did you not understand?
The engines are designed so that a detached fan blade stays contained within the cowling. Here's a video of a fan blade containment test on a Rolls Royce Trent 500: https://youtu.be/RIOWjhjC1jM
It makes total sense to me, but it helps that I've spent hundreds of hours researching and using cross-platform frameworks.

It might be that you aren't the target audience.
> “Creators are being asked to join the YouTube Partner program, so that we can evaluate the validity of the channel, as well as determine whether the channel is following our community guidelines and advertiser policies”

They should probably change their name from YouTube to AdTube..
The thing about it is, that these sorts of things get designed because of evolution. Some engine fails in some way, and it gets redesigned. Planes fail, ditto.

And after >100 years of that, we have pretty safe planes.

What most amazes me is that despite the scientific knowledge we "have", we can't design a new engine from first principles directly. We do it through trial and error. Lots of hilarious/horrible error.
There were complex aspects about both those wars. But they were indisputably fought between Danes and Germans. Schleswig-Holstein was a German duchy under the Danish king, not a paart of Denmark proper.

The second war, in 1864, ended with a huge loss of Danish territory to the emerging German superstate. The northern half of this territory was returned to Denmark in 1920, with the southern remaining German. This was the result of a referendum in the wake of World War 1. Everything was orderly and civilized, and the border region to this day remains a model of how to handle such things without undue upheaval - thus exactly confirming my point above.
So keep JS on that terrible environment where it belongs.

Don't try to develop desktop "apps", mobile "apps", "operating systems", "desktop environments", "airplane systems", "nuclear reactors", "[something.js]" etc.
Seems like her primary goal is to virtue signal to US liberals,not to help her people. Because the Trump administration is already providing help over and above of the what the US would normally provide.
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Can't help thinking of El Al flight 1862's weird "engine fell off" scenario:

https://youtu.be/QkWUIaEoUls?t=36m49s
PHP is a very strong language (Esp php 7.0) .. it's grown up a lot since the crap from 4 and early 5 branches.

There's totally nothing wrong with using PHP as it's found on most servers, and available just about everywhere.

Junior's should be trained though on best practices, how to write testable/maintainable/self-documenting code, the different Design Patterns and using things like repositories properly and why/why not to use them depending on size and scope of project...etc..
AVherald is run by a single person who just compiles reports of incidents as they're received, so there's absolutely no editorialising goes on.
So a couple questions even reading this...

1. The availability depends on the number of peers like BitTorrent? If so, and if no seed is available, how does one access the content, esp in the context of an intranet?

2. Any change to how we run infrastructure except not serving HTTP?
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In modern usage, the von Neumann machine is unfortunately poorly defined. You won't find it defined in Hennessy and Patterson (although they won the von Neumann award); it's discussed but not defined even in appendix L.

There are strong similarities between the Princeton IAS, UNIVAC 1, IBM 701 and even the CDC 1604 (Cray's transistor version). In fact, I'd say that the von Neumann reports [0] are the first 'architecture' with apologies to IBM. Sort of kind of. Don't chop my head off. But that similarity is not what people are thinking when they say von Neumann machine. It should be but it isn't.

But you have to really read the writing to get a sense of what a von Neumann machine actually is and reading those reports are damn hard. The Computer As Von Neumann Planned It [1] is fairly readable.

As an example, the von Neumann machine word had a binary digit (bit) describing whether a minor cycle (word) was a standard number (data) or an order (instruction, really two instructions); section 15.1 of the EDVAC report if you want to look it up. So it's kind've tagged. Lot other weirdnesses and cool ideas.

Minor cycles fall into two classes: Standard numbers
and orders. These two categories should be distinguished
from each other by their respective first units i.e. by
the value of i0. We agree accordingly that i0 = 0 is to
designate a standard number, and i0 = 1 an order.

Anyways, these days whenever someone says von Neumann they generally gloss over this blizzard of detail which they probably were never taught and just mean scalar. It's doubtful whether they are even distinguishing Harvard and Princeton architectures. They just mean something basic, fundamental, abstract. But they don't really mean von Neumann.

This all was the basis of patent lawsuit mentioned in the article. Over the years, there have been many histories written. Reconsidering the Stored-Program Concept [2] is pretty good.

[0] https://library.ias.edu/ecp

[1] http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/godfrey-compute...

[2] http://www.markpriestley.net/pdfs/ReconsideringTheStoredProg...
Laravel dev 4+ years... I use switch VERY rarely.. only if I have 4+ different possible outputs from the result of a variable... I also think switch's are kind of ugly and don't jive w/ my mindset.. I think more in if/then's... if using loops using laravel collections instead.
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Just for the sake of it, I may say that first I understand your concern, but whatever takes away someone, might be a source of shame, disrespect or lack of care for the parent poster. Maybe the opposite even.

Regards
Someone has to have replicated the file though, else it can be lost. Yeah, you still have the hash, but if no one is left that stored the file, what are you gonna do - brute-force search for a preimage of the hash to get your content?

As long as IPFS requires replication to be voluntary on the side of the nodes, the argument of the parent holds.
When I was in university, I knew what the difference between an operating system and desktop environments were, I knew what click-bait nonsense was ("An OS! In JS!") and I knew what JS was good for (web) and what it was terrible for (everything else).

> if this gains traction it would likely be rewritten and optimized for better efficiency

Uttered by any JS "mvp" apologist ever; number of times fulfilled in JS projects: 0.2 times. (The .2 goes for Atom and its C++ rewrites).
France (and quite probably other European countries) is an excellent example of this. Zebra crossings are so common that they're almost completely ignored by drivers.

In Australia they're used relatively sparingly which makes their presence noticeable to drivers. You don't need to do anything clever, just make them sufficiently uncommon.
Funny you should say that. Just hours ago I released an app that helps you pin your most important IPFS hashes to your phone[0]. Works well together with IPFSDroid[1].

Battery usage is definitely noticable, but my phone has a good battery life overall, and IPFS on the phone is a priority for me.

Data usage would be a problem, but I use it only when connected to a portable WIFI hotspot I am carrying with me.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hobofan.ip...

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ligi.ipfsd...
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What kind of role did Rust play at making Firefox fast, if any at all?
"Wallet" is not well defined. Some people use it to refer to the management/client software rather than the valuable data itself.
Why are distributed filesystems like IPFS so popular again these days ? Freenet has been around (and super niche) for close to 20 years soon. Is it because the Bitcoin hype has reinvigorated crypto-anarchists?
> Link #2: Yellen gets asked why she doesn't raise rates all the time. Far from unwarranted certainty, she admits that she expected the economy to to better, doesn't know why it hasn't, and has therefore revised predictions of when the rates will be raised! Any consumer of financial news over the past 4 years should be familiar with this. The fact you omit this is highly disingenuous.

I agree with you, to some extent. Yellen is actually one of the more humble central bankers. Not much competition there, of course. But I would still classify what she says, and doubly so what she does, as unwarranted certainty.

The net effect of what she does, incidentally, is an unprecedented redistribution of wealth in the US economy (and elsewhere) from the poor to the rich. The fact that she does this things like this while being unsure about the consequences ...

And of course, she is like all other central bankers. As you say, she doubts whether what she's doing is the right thing. So what does this person do when she doubts the effects of her unprecedented policies ? Why, more of them, of course. She errs on the side of making the rich richer yet again and sabotaging the poor even more ...

Let's just be glad this woman is not a pilot.

My personal connection to this is that, like all central bankers, Yellen is effectively spending (sorry "loaning") my own money back to me, enriching a lot of people in the process. Needless to say, I feel less than ecstatic. And please don't make the central banker's argument (that it's to "save me from an economic crisis that didn't happen", ie. a counterfactual argument. It's about as realistic and useful as the quintessential example of such an argument "why didn't they just kill Hitler/Stalin/...")

And, yes, I understand why she can't be really humble.
Also the culture/format/rules there are way better suited for this
Not exactly the same, but in the summer China Eastern Airlines had to return to Sydney because one of the engines was basically failing apart...

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/china...
That would still not be an operating system. It would still just be a very early on bootstrapped WebKit in a different operating system.
You can even make a case that "stored program" as an idea predates electronics and computers.

You could but then you'd be conflating something on the other end of the spectrum - turning 'programmable' into 'stored program'. There is no sensible way in which a Jacquard loom is a 'stored program' device.
I think if he did have mental health problems, like many others in the field, it's now more than ever to raise the point. If he didn't it doesn't hurt to raise the issue, because it is genuine.

If you suffer from anxiety and/or depression, there is help. Talk to someone. You're not alone, and you don't need to suffer alone.
Looks cool, I started making an electron based desktop environment like this a while ago but didn't see it through https://github.com/TrevorDev/niftyOS
Exception semantics are unclear, requiring explicit checks only in some cases depending on how a function is called.
Apparently the latest React significantly improves server-side rendering, so it might be worth giving Gatsby a try again even just with the React package updated to the latest version (and I'd love to hear what the speed increase is).

I abandoned my own React-based SSG because it was slow, but I'm hoping to dust it off when I have some more time to see the effects.
Did you miss the part regarding Filecoin monetization? If I have content I care about, I can pay to have it hosted by other IPFS nodes.

They certainly have the funding to create a storage market that can rival what passes for distributed storage: https://www.coindesk.com/257-million-filecoin-breaks-time-re...
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To anyone that can't see sarcasm and attempts this for real: don't forget to register a matching .io domain so that it gives real _gravitas_ to your JS project.
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Work in progress branch can't be named the same as final branch. That's inconvenient.

reseting back based on reflog is more straightforward in terms of preparation.
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Your first comment didn't say anything about having a personal connection or any first-hand knowledge of the situation, so it was reasonable for people to consider the comment as empty, insensitive speculation.

There are valid grounds for wishing that HN was better than it is, but this case doesn't epitomise anything that is fundamentally wrong with HN; you could have done better in your initial comment, and then done better than to use it as an opportunity to take a swipe at the entire community.

For HN to be better, it relies on all of us to do our bit to make it better.
Oh great, another "OS" in the making. I am starting to get the feel people have no idea what an OS actually is.