skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming dialects don't seem to get names. I think a pattern of [language-name]-[dominant-principles] might make a good name scheme. Suffixes would then work across languages. Other suffix namespaces could coexist, though I'm not sure what they'd be.

My point wasn't so much about any one program, so much as it was about an invisible programming ethnology. I like when Show HNs say what language they speak; I would like even more if they say how they speak it.

Having name for program dialects would allow prospective users and contributors to gain deep insight about its intended structure, vision, scope, limits, etc, etc, etc, etc from a distance.

It may have seemed narrow focused, but I didn't want my point to be limited to one set of principles, patterns, and libraries, even though I like what actix adds to Rust-std(?), especially since any code spoken in it can itself make, or through some elements factored out be made into, other libraries that then build on or toward another powerful dialect / speaker communities.

#hashtag: ethnocodology(?) ..ethnokodikology?
Charlie Stross did and is now a very successful science fiction author. He wrote about his career changes here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/how-i-go...
Yeah, there are plenty of schools that don't even try, which is really a shame.

But as far as I know most high schools don't really provide IT setups for particular exams. So I think there would almost certainly be schools where a random math teacher cobbled together machines for the course but just doesn't have the time or training to set them up for AP's testing requirements.

It's also not trivial to build testing software to run on machines used for other purposes. AP/The College Board is pretty serious about cheating. So what happens if the test software freezes and the student instinctively hits alt-tab and his IDE is open with his classwork?
That won't help them learn office though.

Just today I was talking to an Anti-Windows who is trying to participate in the business world. He couldn't find a usable invoice template for whatever wannabe-office he thought would work.

Back before linux was a thing I had a product for legit unix that produced documents by writing text over pcl or postscript forms. That was worth the effort for high-production but every user shouldn't need to do that.
There has been an enormous resurrection of the analytic bootstrap. Grep, for example, https://www.icts.res.in/program/NUMSTRINGS2018/talks for bootstrap. The difference is the realization that the bootstrap equations can be solved numerically and can be thought of as a way to test whether certain conformal theories exist at all, rather than as a way to take you from hardly-any-input-at-all to a complete description of the theory.
I wonder how different his quality of life would have been if he had grown up in an Asian ethnostate.
Contact rotary international or the peace corps.
Most importantly, there need to be penalties for patent trolling. If you try to enforce a patent even though you must know that there is prior art (e.g. because you've been provided clear evidence of it), you go to jail. Not "the bankrupt LLC is liable to pay some money it doesn't have", the actual people behind it, behind actual bars.

Of course, the tricky part is not preventing legitimate patent litigation, but if you word it carefully enough, it could make it risky enough for patent trolls to not be worth it. The tradeoffs change when it's not LLC money at risk but the participant's personal freedom, so even if only 10% of patent trolls could be actually convicted, it might be enough to discourage the rest.

Or, of course, just dump software patents alltogether...
I wonder if he teaches word because it's mandatory or if it's a choice. Because if this people live in a village without electricity and computers, maybe there are better skills they can learn before microsoft word.
In the real world you don’t have pretty much unlimited resources.
If I remember correctly those tests I was speaking about were already running in parallel on 2 or 3 machines otherwise the total time would have been 2 or 3 times more. Obviously we couldn’t use hundreds of machines to make them run in 10 minutes.
In most of the places were I worked even getting a couple of new machines for production use would take months, I think if I requested even a couple of machines dedicated only for the integration testing I would have been laughed in the face.
So if you can run a full suite of integration tests in minutes on hundreds/thousands of machines then good for you, but don’t expect that every company has the resources for doing it.
And in those cases unit tests that run continuously are more useful than integration tests that run once a day.
But what if, after spending more time working on and thinking about it, someone does find a way to make predictions based on it or on an extension/modification of it?

If that's a possibility (I can't say, I'm not a physicist) then I'd be a mistake to discard it on the basis that it's just not predictive now.
Please check the app I linked - it is specifically designed to replicate the desktop feel and the interface of Microsoft word. The solution was not intended to be anti-microsoft in any way. This is the only solution which is optimal on price, weatherproof and power requirements.

My solution was specifically meant to achieve what you said. I'm in India...We have the exact same issue (but with better internet probably)
Well, PHP7 still got some of the issues mentioned in the article. But it's mostly due to backward compatibility reasons I believe.

But then there's also a good rule. Don't write shit code. It pretty much works in most of the languages.

Don't use the bad parts of the language. Most languages have something that's weird.
Keyboard shortcuts help when attempting to explain what actions to perform. I try and keep my hand off the mouse as much as possible anyway. I wish the underlines weren't turned off by default now. There are more and more people who don't know about them now, and they're usually positively impressed when they discover them through me.
Gab.ai at the moment is the least censored social network to discuss this issue.
This discussion on HN: Smaller Code, Better Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743

Especially this comment chain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571159
That'd be like 10K for another 100K miles? probably more with maintenance. I'm not sure that's a better deal than a $18K civic brand new, if you really planned for driving a few hundred thousand miles, especially when you factor in gas differentials.

My impression is that the cost per mile on new cars is pretty good if you actually drive them for a few hundred thousand miles. The savings on used cars mostly comes in if you don't plan on driving enough to wear a new car out before getting your next car; otherwise transaction costs can be... significant.
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I've been fooling around on code-golf.io, and PHP is the only language where it feels like I'm fighting with the interpreter every time I refactor. Swap array_filter for array_map? Gotta switch the order of the arguments. They also have a barely-documented, binary version of the ternary operator[0], which is certainly a unique idea.

Lua doesn't give you much, but it stays out of your way. Perl has batteries included. Perl 6 does too, but also asks if you'd like more batteries. Python looks sane. But PHP is one little edge case after another.

[0]: https://secure.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparis...
The big 2 that I heard about are the fappening and deepfakes.

Anyone with legal/pr experience care to give us some insight what you think reddits decision to ban those subs was based on (like were they actually illegal or just banned for bringing bad PR)?
Yes, I'm saying this would be huge for someone who only needed Hive. This would be huge for me if it could also do Impala.
Examining China's hypersonic transport plans
I'm personally shunning black rectangle devices. But I'm still curious - can it print?

I'm in the USA where it's a hardship to participate in normal business without windoze. It's a very unfortunate situation due to the costs involved. Also when you are evaluated for low level jobs you are generally put in front of MS office and directed to perform some tasks. If you hunt around looking for features it looks bad to the observer.
Galleon and SAC Capital are not good examples. Their entire business models are built around gathering insider information and profiting.

These 2 instances in which they caught red-handed were simply the strongest cases that the U.S. government could bring.

Cohen is a multi-billionaire because he built a business which is designed to launder insider information into "clean" information without implicating himself or his lieutenants.
I think that a real statistic on previous trolls actions and settlement or litigation outcomes would greatly simplify the reasoning.
Would the open data from thetrollingeffect website be of any use for building a model?
Можно зарабатывать не малые деньги от 50 до 10.000 руб каждые 12 часов, сидя дома играя в экономическую онлайн игру. В игре есть бонусы, акции, денежные конкурсы каждый месяц. Для этого нанимаешь гномов которые добывают золото, потом золото меняешь на реальные деньги которые можно вывести любым способом (карта,электронный кошелек, телефон и т.д.), В общем чем больше гномов тем больше твой заработок, нанимать лучше сразу гномов "профи", Я наняла тридцать гномов профи и зарабатываю по 8000 руб каждый день. Сайт уже выплатил участникам игры более 44.000.000руб.
Можешь просто зарегистрироваться и оценить сайт, а выбор играть или нет остается за тобой.

http://golden-mines.biz/?i=408215
deBruin and Jacobs are also involved with Genedics, LLC v. Meta Company. Trolling in VR/AR seems likely to become massive.
I appreciate the insight, but 10 years is a LONG time, especially in developing countries.
> not that ribbon abomination...

I like it. It was confusing at first as UI changes tend to be, but after a short period of time, it was so much easier to use.
Yes. https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c05384190

Welcome to the "jugaad" world.
Yes, RNNs and autoencoders, etc. do seem to be encoding concepts via embedding vectors in higher dimensions. But see the argument made by Doug Hofstadter about language translation using RNNs [2]. We have also seen how CNN layers can "visualize" higher levels of features in images as we go deeper in the network. And many think that
some variation of this basic approach done repeatedly, with more data, computing power etc. will be sufficient to lead us to AGI in the future.

However, many of the leading figures in AI - including Geoffrey Hinton - the father of deep learning, is very skeptical of the approach to AI that he pioneered. He recently stated - "My view is throw it all away and start again." [0]

Francois Chollet - the author of the deep learning framework Keras, has said: "For all the progress made, it seems like almost all important questions in AI remain unanswered. Many have not even been properly asked yet." [1]

And of course, Doug Hofstadter, who thinks it is going to take a lot more to come close to human level intelligence & understanding, even when you consider the most advanced RNNs of the day - those that run Google Translate .

[0] https://cacm.acm.org/news/221108-artificial-intelligence-pio...
[1] https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/837188765500071937
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s...
Stephen Wolfram on how general artificial intelligence will be achieved
This is blanket false. Our legal system already factors in culpability and reasonableness. Intent is a crucial part of our legal system. The problem is, Section 230 helps big companies avoid responsibility even when they ARE culpable. A small company doing their best to moderate their site is not going to be held legally responsible for bad user content, companies making hundreds of billions by avoiding spending money moderating content, are.

Section 230 has to go if we're going to do anything to fix the Internet.
I think it's strange how citizens are fined and jailed when they crack other people's computers but it's legal and necessary when the state does it. Apparently, they maintain vulnerability stockpiles.
Section 230 only effectively helps large companies. Any small site taking reasonable measures to manage their site would be fine. But companies which sit on hundreds of billions in cash while making a profit on illegal activity (as Google, Facebook, and Twitter are all guilty of), should not be immune to prosecution for their willful violations of the law.
There's privateer remake https://sourceforge.net/projects/privateer/files/
(supposed to have a homepage here: http://privateer.sourceforge.net/ )

Disclaimer: Ages ago I coded the GPL Vega Strike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ engine on which the privateer remake operates -- you might need to run in xp compat mode unless you checkout the data dir
Could use dragonegg[1] to run gccgo through llvm and then through emscripten.

1: https://dragonegg.llvm.org/
FLC+LUX+CITY+QUY+NHƠN+|+DỰ+ÁN+FLC+LUXCITY+QUY+NHƠN
Nice site design. Will try it out.
Seeing a lot of the water color images you used on your homepage lately. Twist uses some too. Is there a standard site /designer who makes these?
Yes. PHP sucks. So why has it been so successful?

Maybe that's what all these other "amazing" languages need to be asking (instead of pointing at all of PHP's flaws).

My current working theory: PHP.net has the most amazing set of contextual user comments for function reference. PHP.net was stack overflow before stack overflow existed. Yes, PHP has a ton of flaws, but there are workarounds for a lot of those flaws, and those workarounds are often found in a comment right there next to the function.
> unlike neural networks which we will need to entirely redesign, rebuild, and retrain to get similar progress

You could argue that the child's neural network will be redesigned and rebuilt as his brain matures.
If we're comparing to Nixon, iiuc during the 1968 campaign he was equally shady with Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords#Claimed_sa...

But I agree with you that whataboutism is the wrong response to what's going on now.
pro hac vice on this kind of filing refers, I'm fairly certain, to the lawyer not being regularly admitted to practice in the jurisdiction but being (or seeking to be) permitted to practice for that specific case.
On a somewhat related note, be interested to hear if others have kept their old source code.

I started coding on a ZX Spectrum, moved to QBasic on a 286 and then later to Turbo Pascal. I remember all my TP code being on a single 1.44mb disk which somehow is now in GDrive, the earliest is from '99.

Every now and again, I enjoy firing up some of those old programs or looking at the source code and handmade bitmaps. I think I most miss the freedom of just writing anything I felt like with no obligations to anyone.
Especially since a lot of people there have now mobile phone instead of computers and do about everything they need with them.
During this era I had a copy of Hotwired Style [1] - it was really the beginning of a new art form, and that book meant so much to me. At some point I lost it, but even though it’d be outdated today, I’d like to pick it up again.

Very first web project was putting together an online zine with a fugazi interview my friend had done. I don’t know what happened to it, but it’s possible I’ve got it on a decomposing Zip Disc somewhere.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Hotwired-Style-Principles-Building-Sm...
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You mean a website from the 90's cant handle the HN hug of death?
> passed a useless health care act

This is unsupported opinion and does not serve to strengthen the rest of your statements: While the act certainly may have been useless to you, it was literally a matter of life-or-death to some Americans--for example those with "pre-existing" conditions. [1]

Furthermore, and of some interest to the Hacker News community, any step to divorce (American) health care from employment is of great importance to startups (small business), those in the gig economy, and should help to improve the overall "liquidity" of the employment market.

If by "useless" you meant that the act did not go nearly far enough, then we would agree. I'm not sure that was due to Obama's corruption but that of his opposition (with ties to the health insurance industry).

(As for the hypothesis that American government has been corrupt for decades, I would also tend to agree. Eisenhower warned of it and I'm sure it was going on decades before him.)

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamac...
I don't think that's true - it takes that into account, it just looks like it collapses because you're in the world with that state - not seeing the entire picture. MWI accounts for it appearing that way while in actuality the wave function never collapses.

Max Tegmark gives a pretty accessible description of this in his book - Our Mathematical Universe, and Eliezer Yudkowsky does a decent job with a general explanation here (though he avoids talking about MWI): http://lesswrong.com/lw/pd/configurations_and_amplitude/

I think the Copenhagen interpretation is now considered wrong by most physicists. It's strange to me that it was ever really thought of as true - though it makes sense that it would look like what's happening at first.

It's less that MWI is a predictive theory and more that MWI is something that comes out as a result of the theory's prediction (Schrodinger's wave equation that doesn't collapse).
Mass exodus of desperate Venezuelans is overwhelming neighboring countries
I mean diplomacy helps too but nobody is going to listen if you don't have a stick to back it up with. See Ukraine for example.
Not sure how a technologist could help, but as an environmentalist, you can do something about it based on your ideals like Unabomber and Columbine shooters.
That looks like an amicus brief in support of the "two-sided" argument. What am I missing here?
An aside, but:

> well... maybe Regan

Presumably you mean Ronald Reagan, though Donald Regan was a prominent figure in his Administration.
What I did was volun-tourism and is generally looked down upon. I did not help anyone. Ghana was not better off for me having gone there. I personally benefitted from it but to pretend that my “volunteering” had an impact is silly.

There are lots of volun-tourism groups. They are for white people who want to go to Africa and look like they are making a difference. I can’t help answer your question, just to ask that you do your diligence and join a legit aid organization.
hah. corrected.
Telling me I’m useless if I don’t start my own business ... well, that’s a pretty good way to get me to ignore everything he might say.

There’s lots of things I can do in this world, but I have learned first hand that I am worse than useless at the starting/running a business thing.
It talks about Google as serving both users and advertisers. It talks about Amazon serving both buyers and sellers. I think that's specific.
I'm in the Philippines now, and the irony for me, as an American, is that English is not an official language in the USA, yet in the Philippines it is (along with Filipino).
Thanks. Just looking for this.
Warmongering isn’t the same as corruption. Trump is easily the most corrupt president since Harding.
This didn't really teach me piano chords and scales. It seems like you should already know a thing or two about them to use it.
Show HN: Angle Grinder, a Rust CLI App to slice and dice log files
Totally. Literacy in Ghana is way up. Solar panel prices are way down. Smartphones are cheaper than ever. But despite all that, progress can still be slow in poor, underfunded areas of developing countries.
The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption (1997)
Reminds me of:

https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
I'll grant that I'm amazed by its ability to make a six core Haswell E, 32 GB, NVME 1080TI system feel sluggishly old, however I have been able to go flying at least a few times. The first time I tried a planetary approach was pretty amazing.

I should add that I got to meet Chris Roberts when he was in Melbourne a few years ago. I thought that was pretty cool, as I absolutely loved WC and Freelancer way back; very nice guy also. So after that and my backing level I'm not really capable of being objective on SC. :)

Elite Dangerous is miles ahead of it in overall completeness though.
Not sure this has ever happened to me. I'm very pale and male, and always have recruiters coming after me for SRE gigs. Maybe this happens, but I've not see it. It's irrational to hire based on anything other than merit, although I understand diversity is good because I don't prefer to work with only white/asian dudes either. Hire everyone qualified, especially people whom don't look like yourself.
one example of prior art that has virtual currency in a multi-player game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Wars
>Visiting Strasbourg (in Alsace, France), people's surnames, street and place names, and the local cuisine are all German, but nobody speaks a word of it.

Maybe they don't speak it normally, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people there can speak German. You can literally take a city bus (or walk) over the border into a German town Kiel. And everyone speaks German there. There are people who work in Strasbourg and live in Kiel, or vice versa.

The Alsatian dialect was always more of a rural thing. Both French and the Nazis suppressed it so unfortunately it's pretty rare these days. Still, according to Wikipedia, 43% of adults in Alsace could speak it in 1999. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsatian_dialect
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When distributions get it wrong
I believe the fappening essentially amounted to copyright infringement, since Lawrence owned the rights to the pictures. Deepfakes is a little more questionable, because it's a very strange topic. However, faking a nude photo of someone could essentially be considered equivalent to claiming "this person took a nude photo which looks like this", which, being false, injurious, and appearing in written media, amounts roughly to libel, I believe. But I am not a lawyer so those are poorly-educated guesses.
That's how I was taught MS word in a classroom in Delhi circa 2004. The worst part of it was that the exam had questions like "Define title bar" and "Explain the File menu".
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did it help in any way ?
I assume that his point was that blackouts and brownouts have limited impact on battery powered devices vs devices plugged directly into the grid, since you can smooth over patchy electricity access by running on battery during blackouts and charging during availability periods. This is why a lot of places with unreliable infra use UPSs with their computers, but if course that means an even higher capital cost to get your system up and running.
From the article:

" Like so much else about Wing Commander II, the speech, voiced by members of the development team, is terminally cheesy today, but in its day the Speech Pack drove the purchase of the latest Sound Blaster cards, which were adept at handling such samples, just as the core game drove the purchase of the hottest new 80386-based computers."

I am pretty sure they got some deals for that too. I got Wing Commander as part of a "Multimedia Kit" from Creative (CD Drive, Sound Blaster 16, Speakers), which bundled Wing Commander, Strike Commander, Syndicate Plus and Ultima VIII. All excellent games.
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