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> Ted Nelson has some novel ideas. But I can't help to think that the failure of the mass adoption of his ideas stems from him being too greedy. If he had open sourced the code he wrote for Xanadu, if he had even published specs of a simple Xanadu system free of copyright he could've brought us a better hypertext.

I lived in San Francisco around 1992 and got to know Ted a bit, along with a few others in the Xanadu team. At Ted's houseboat in Sausalito, I witnessed a few demos of the ever-in-progress Xanadu software (and related projects), and saw some of the code.

Ted has always had very strong ideas about treating copyright as technology (see his 'transclusion,' etc.). That's why he's always been bitter about the web winning the hypertext game, without the necessary (in Ted's design) two-way linking with automatic credit (& royalties!). I can imagine Ted being vociferous (in his unique way) in opposition to a blanket release of source code via the distribution technology of the time -- largely Usenet News, FTP sites, and BBS systems. The contemporary landscape of open-source licensing had barely evolved by the early 90s; if you released something on the net, you were pretty much putting it in the public domain. That was antithetical to Ted's goals of creators owning their content.

Even if he had been convinced to release the code, it was in Smalltalk. (It had started out in C, but had been rewritten by the time I saw it.) The culture of Smalltalk never seemed to be very interested in methods of distributing source code. (Or even binary code: ST apps included their entire runtime environment, making them really heavy.) Even if the code was released, the number of people running Smalltalk systems was miniscule.

Finally, Xanadu, for most of its active life in the early 90s, was very much in experimental development. Although Ted had been thinking & designing & writing about Xanadu for decades, I believe this period was the first time he was actually able to commission running software that implemented hypertext. (Ted's not a programmer, nor an engineer.)

As for ‘publishing specs’ — most of the details of Xanadu are described in Nelson’s book _Computer Lib / Dream Machines._ Ted’s written extensively about his hypertext ideas (as this very post points out). I don’t know if Xanadu itself was ever documented, but you could read his book and probably implement most of it — if you dared!

Although Ted has always stood up for the 'regular person' computer user (that's partly what _Computer Lib_ is about), in actuality both the UI of the software, and the inherent concepts, were very weird and outside of what most people would understand. I'm not sure Xanadu would have ended up being any more influential than it already was — Berners-Lee certainly knew of Nelson's work as he was created the WWW.

(@terminalcommand: You seem to appreciate Nelson's work more than most, so please don't take the above as any sort of argument. But because you touched on the open-sourcing issue, I replied here.)
There may be an odd semantic distinction that doesn't translate.

I (native US English speaker) typically interpret "indexes" as the plural of index as in "structure you use for fast key-value lookup". I interpret "indices" as the plural of index as in "lookup key".
Business methods and legal theories are exempt from patents, but OTOH, so was software once upon a time.
Actually Peter Kays accent is not that strong like wise Jasper Carrots Birmingham accent is not the full Yam Yam "black country" dialect. BTW black country refers to the mines in the rural areas near Birmingham and not to race.

And I wont mention the accents in peaky blinders :-)
No. Its currently very specific to our org. But i'll consider making it more generic and open sourcing it now.
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Also interesting that the first discussion is about the number tower, along with a reference to scheme...
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I wonder if cryptocurrencies could be used as an anti-spam prevention measure. In order to send you an email, maybe I have to send you 2 cents worth of cryptocurrency.
I’m curious: what is the English translation of the Polish reading of it?
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The weak expert consensus is now that the largest contributor to near-sightedness is reduced exposure to sunlight as a young child which causes the eyes to grow slightly differently. Do places above the Arctic circle have higher rates of near-sightedness?

EDIT: apparently there is a correlation, but it seems to me it's not as strong as the sunlight theory would have suggested.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1395-3907.2003....
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Radiological accidents caused by people picking up radioactive sources, because they had no idea what they were, are a bit of a hobby of mine (and in general radiological accidents).

The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is normally called to help local authorities deal with such accidents and of course the first thing they do afterwards is compile a report. Unfortunately they don't have those reports in one place- you have to trawl through their site and their yearly publications to find it.

So I've taken the liberty to put all the reports I could find on my server, here:

http://www.goblinopera.com/iaea_reports/

These include the most well-publicised cases, like Goiânia, but also more obscure ones, including my favourite ones, the three accidents in irradiation facilities in San Salvador (El Salvador), Nesvizh (Belarus) and near Soreq (Isral).

Apologies that these are just on my (rented) server- I understand people might consider it a non-trusted source. I'll try uploading the lot on github if enough people are interested.

Btw, the IAEA copyright gives premission for copies to be made and distributed over web pages:

http://www-pub.iaea.org/books/rights-and-permissions
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In that world, no need to wait 5 years for updates. Will be continuously on-demand and up-to-date.
There's a clip that went viral a while ago where a girl was essentially spouting gibberish in various languages, but it sounded like she was speaking those languages!

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Well, i use it daily, because it has:

- much more sane command line syntax

- automatic formatting and highlighting of json/xml/html

- automatically show received headers

- reverts to unproccessed output when redirected

PROTIP: use 'cat' to type the body manually:

cat | http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken

You can then start typing the message body.
When done, press ctrl+d (EOF) and the request will send and the reply will be printed.

And if you already have the body in a separate file, just pipe it through:

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>> Saying that jaywalking is risky is not an ethical statement about cars

> See my response above to joshuamorton.

I didn't understand the connection between that response and my assertion.
Why does it matter?

I suppose you could avoid the possibility of a name clash if the interpreter maintained a hidden, name-mangled reference for you...?

Personally I think it's a bigger problem that python isn't all that well suited to functional programming because of lack of tco etc (see slackness python etc). But I understand the design decision.
That certainly is one use case. Even for an auto-generated training data it is almost always the case to have some noise in the data and taking out the golden set from that is rarely an option, we always need to do some manual tagging and cleaning.
Thanks for the feedback.
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Google offer reserved instances too. They're called committed use discounts
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If the objective is to increase your speed, and I can deliver the 5 products in roughly the same amount of time as the 1, and each delivered product increases your speed, what's the problem, exactly?
I guess you just work for a poor quality of customer?
When you live in a country with actual history (as opposed to rural Iowa where nothing ever threatened it), it's not racism.

You don't start because you believe the neighbors are somehow inferior, you start because you know that you have dangerous differences, or that they occupy some parts of you country that should be freed, or because they are in the offensive every now and then and so on.

Words have a meaning. Not all situations where a group is cautious or even hates another are racism. The same way blacks in the US being cautious of whites is not racism -- they do have a long history of suffering in their hands that justifies that as the prudent behavior.
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This. Don't bother finding out why he was stealing or look for ways to fix society. Just throw your friend under the bus.
Failing to understand the logic behind this. How could the UK government possibly think letting an adult company collect user-data is for their own citizen protection.

Wouldn't it make more sense for the government/ISPs to take care of the AgeID product themselves? They are the gatekeepers to the internet basically isn't it?
That's a very stupid decision to make from her side. She had small children, so every additional year she lives is immensely important for her children. To die in the next year is just 0.05% probability, to die now - 5%. Even if she dies in 10 years, these 10 years of her life would have been an unmeasurable gift to her children comparing it with her dying on the operating table.

The surgeon had to do the math with her, instead of wondering, whether she understood the risks or not.

Unfortunately, many people are illiterate with numbers, so you cannot assume that in that person's head numbers like 5% and 0.05% do not both translate to "negligibly small".
Actually it did. Jews in Germany in 36 hating on the German people for what they're doing to them is not "racism".
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A decent writer could make a sitcom out of this in no time. I already have a picture in my head -- it is like Night Court meets Psych! I wanna watch this on Netflix!!!
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Yep, unfortunately, in today's world the real freedom comes from having more money than you need for your daily needs, family, etc... WITHOUT having to work every day...

When you reach this level and have your FY money, you can do whatever you like and love with your life - continue to work (like me), travel, invent something, start a company, become an artist, start a charity and change the world...
This is happening with porn already. What I'm scared of is that people can choose people they know in real life.
I'm excited to go to FOSDEM for the first time this year. I plan to be hanging around Open hardware and Internet of things rooms.

> FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. Just turn up!

I was quite surprised to see that. Even free to attend conferences usually require registration so that they can plan ahead and prevent overcrowding. Did FOSDEM not have this kind of problems in the past? Judging by the number of people I know that regularly attend it, it's quite a well known event.
Made the short list? People say that like it's an accomplishment.

Jesus, Amazon is milking this for all it can and nearly every city is bending over backwards for Amazon.
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Every time I look at Julia, I like it a lot, right up to the point where I remember that indexing is 1-based and I loose the will to go on.
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A lot of people are talking about having learned early in childhood. Don't let that discourage you - it's not at all too late to learn in your 20s.

My suggestion would be to examine what you know about yourself. How do you personally learn best? Is it in a formal classroom setting? Is it by watching videos? Reading books? By picking up a project you want to accomplish and then progressively figuring out what you need to know to finish it?

That can help you determine whether to self-teach, join a bootcamp or MOOC, etc, and what type of resources to look for.
Has it been replicated?
I'd assumed it referred to aggregate bandwidth, and indeed that seems to be the case after testing. Throughput to a single key still remains around 600mbit/sec within a region, and meanwhile the real problem with S3 isn't throughput so much as latency, and no amount of bandwidth will help that.
First, of all, the parent means his comment as a positive thing. Not as a concern.

That said, HN is for posting things that strike our intellectual curiosity, and this has tons of interest regarding language, linguistics, culture, writing, etc.

HN is not just about computers and startups, and it says explicitly so in its guidelines.
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I wouldn't argue that Java is a lot bigger than Python in real world adaption. But the Stackoverflow graph that was posted above looks at growth over the last past 5 years.

I have been working with Python for 12 years and only in the last few did I get the impression that it is a popular language. For example when I'm interviewing candidates for a junior dev position, pretty much all of them have at least some Python experience from University, whereas when I started all the fellow Python programmers either learned it on the job or in their spare time.

I do agree that StackOverflow isn't a good proxy, but I could image Python getting more new regular users than Java at the moment.
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I'm aware people call refcounting garbage collection. That doesn't make an equivalency, and (to use your terms) it doesn't make tracing GC and refcounting the same thing.

You're being needlessly pedantic, plenty of people have conversations about "refcounting vs GC", do you always come in with an "aaaactually, refcounting is a kind of GC" whenever you hear the discussions?
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You might enjoy Coconut (http://coconut-lang.org/).
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It's per account, I think.

And yes, you could spread your money among multiple banks, but then you have manage multiple accounts.
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FOSDEM is one of the most community-oriented conferences I attend, which is quite an achievement considering its size nowadays.

A couple of us from the Prosody XMPP server project will be there in the "realtime lounge" area. Feel free to come and say hi!
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Has anyone else noticed that when you publish a package on npm it builds a tutorial page?

Is there a way to enhance this page?
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I guess depends what you do, for my stock trading robots I chose Python, just because of some of the financial libraries, (which I didn't use in the end)... it has a shitty syntax, and any language would do in my case, but I am not a developer so take my advice with a grain of salt: the end result is what matters...
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Looking forward to the AV1 update.
Just like we dreamed that Mozilla would someday fully commit to supporting xulrunner, when we were working on TomTom Home.

In the mean time: wake up, smell the coffee, and use Electron. Problem already solved!
The assumption that is made however is that whoever approaches a radioactive source will be able to understand the new sign.

Another assumption is that this person will believe the sign- for instance, Egyptian Pharaohs went to great lengths to ward people off their buried treasures but their tombs were robbed anyway, by grave robbers who simply figured out it was all to keep them away from the goods.

This concern was big in the mind of Gregory Benford and his team who designed the thorn fields etc- that a sign telling you to keep off may just be read as "here be treasure".

Finally, the dearth of knowledge among the majority of the population on nuclear physics should not be underestimated. In the Goiania accident, and other similar cases, people realised that the radioactive sources they had found were important and potentially valuable, because they exhibited uncommon properties, like glowing in the dark or emitting heat (in Lia, Georgia, a 90Sr source with an activity of 1295 TBq was used as a heater by folks gathering wood in the forest). So they kept those sources, putting them in pockets and taking them home, to show their families and then probably looking for a way to cash in on them, until they were taken to hospital with strange illnesses.

These actually seem to be pretty clear patterns of human activity and they don't seem to be deterred by simple signage, which is often present on medical equipment etc.
looking forward to a demo of this tech where all actors, male and female, are replaced with a single select actor.

the technology can only get better, the question is will disclaimers become part of every video or just the assumption of what you see is always fake?
Ridiculous is suggesting Python is capable of replacing Java in what concerns performance.

Specially when it needs extensions written in C or C++ for anything that requires it.
Or 1.38 MiB. Parent said _two_ floppies.
That's the critical point about racism that no one seems to mention though. Every racist person is racist ultimately because of fear. Regardless of how justified their fear is, they hate because they are consumed by fear and mistrust of the other, which is a natural human reaction. We may not empathize with their fear but to them it is very real.

When you understand racism in this context it becomes clear that the narrative of people being racist because they are hateful is far too shallow. It goes much deeper than that.
actually, if it's a federal depository they have to accommodate in-person visitors.
In my experience (I've been to FOSDEM 3 times) the language rooms were the most difficult ones to get into as they were full 90% of the time.

It also looks like Python has a main track on Saturday.
That's a lot of lines for "it's my $##& project and I wanted to use perl."

More power to 'im! I use lua for such things myself. Because I like it.

That's the beauty (and even a big part of the reason) for solo projects. You get to do it your way.
I don't understand that example. Either face recognition is off in my brain, or both top and bottom look like Carrie Fisher. Am I missing something?
Do you guys have R&D working on moving the digitalization of audio into the mic? Like having a laser inside the mic read the ribbon and spit out a digital stream?
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Civilian equipment is often not prepared for dealing with an unexpected war. I don't think this is a problem to be solved.
In my experience it can't even dry your hands unless you wait several minutes. A very thin film of water always remains on my hands.
Surely, learnig concepts the wrong way is worse than not learnig them at all.

Putting two algorithms that belong to the same domain, automatic memory management, against each other, tends to lead to conclusions that aren't necessarily correct.

For example, any reference counting implementation that uses cycle collectors or hazardous pointers, has a partial tracing GC implementation as well.
The leakers will just claim that they had to remove watermarks to avoid being traced, thus invalidating the signature.

Or if it isn't important who the author is, they can record a projection of a fake video with a verified camera, giving the fake the appearance of legitimacy.
I understand your sentiment, but I think your wording is a bit mean spirited. I don't think this person "expects a prize", nor do I think this is a trait that can be applied to millenials as a whole. My sister who has hired literally a hundred people bucketed as "millenials" has had the exact opposite experience in dealing with them than you describe. She thinks they are some of the hardest working people she has ever worked with. But we digress.
Is it all the belly buttons? Where do you work, that pictures of belly buttons are a problem?
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I can't tell if you're joking or not but putting a dust cover over your laptop and/or not using it aren't really viable solutions to a poorly designed keyboard.
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Maybe Monty Python was on to some lost knowledge with their "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"?

Or not...
> Quality is debatable.

Using a VCS is not though.

And sure, you didn't say they didn't, but using SVN or CVS in 2017 isn't good (outside of a very few select situations/industries).

Don't be proud of working for large, slow moving companies with poor tech choices. They don't use git yet but they will.