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The more i read, the less i like :(

The prototypal inheritance example in that post does not read in an intuitive manner, and certainly don't improve the clarity of meaning for prototypal inheritance (especially now that it's using the word "class").

The only compelling thing i can find in here so far is that it's trying to provide common functionality from ES5. But again, i don't see what that has to do with building a language that is easy for non-programmers to grok, making the Javascript semantic model more accessible, or even making JS coding more readable.
The project's GitHub repo[1] does a much better effort of selling it:

When compared to JavaScript, Move has the following key features:

- Simpler. E.g. there's only one way to declare functions, no need for var declarations, only a single type of equality operators and no need for terminating statements with semicolons.

- Less boiler-plate code needed. Move introduces a few carefully selected features like the "import" and "export" keywords, and @-shorthand for this access.

- Move runs in any >=ES3 JavaScript runtime and thus can be used as a universal programming language for everything from running in web browsers to powering complex offline systems.

Also, interestingly, it's from the guy behind Kod and Spotify's design.

[1] https://github.com/rsms/move
So one thing to keep in mind here is that according to NASA, the meteorite itself is generating these compounds:

Thirdly, the team found these nucleobases -- both the biological and non-biological ones -- were produced in a completely non-biological reaction. "In the lab, an identical suite of nucleobases and nucleobase analogs were generated in non-biological chemical reactions containing hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, and water. This provides a plausible mechanism for their synthesis in the asteroid parent bodies, and supports the notion that they are extraterrestrial," says Callahan.
(from the NASA article: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/dna-meteorit...)

This does not mean that there is developed life on another planet that then traveled to us. What it does mean is that the building blocks of life that were seeded on earth are probably pretty common and therefore were probably also seeded elsewhere.
Thank you for the clarification. From the discussion of deployment, development and marketing teams and the TV promo I thought it was aimed at a different demographic.
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are your backups too large to be elsewhere completely? i'm working on a site on appengine, and although i can't back up all data, i can copy the critical stuff (the user accounts) to servers elsewhere.

[i realise this is a little off-topic, but what do other app-engine users do?]

[edit: wasn't being critical, just trying to understand what others do and why]
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I'd write the scala example as

names zip ages foreach { (name, age) =>
println(name + ": " + age)
}

which, imho, is a little easier on the eyes.

[edit: fix syntax]
Recently a sheriff's deputy pulled me and my family out of a car that we sent off the road at 75 mph. I admire Anonymous, but I believe the world is not always as binary as they perceive it to be.
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BBC riot pages(right side links) are down
try links related to riots on the right side

like "Latest riot coverage from BBC News" http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14449675
So the differences between this and Javascript that I can see are:

* ^ replacing function
* default values for arguments, ^(x: 4){...}
* print instead of console.log
* array slicing x[1:3], x[:-2]
* embedded HTML, div = <div/>

Interesting, but this isn't convincing enough for me to use it.

Edit: like beaumartinez says, the Github page explains the differences much better than the site: https://github.com/rsms/move
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What religion is that?
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I don't think finding evidence of ETI would change much of anything.

Sure, an agnostic might be put into a further tailspin, but so what? Most of the world's faithful have already demonstrated the enviable ability to suspend any desire to investigate the mechanics of their belief system. What difference will it matter that aliens were thrown into the equation?
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If you don't mind sharing and I mean this respectfully, could you inform us which religion is this?
I think that's a bit unfair to the compatibilist position. Ultimately an account of free will should include a definition of the concept, and an explanation of how it figures into our intuitions about particular cases. In particular it should explain situations in which the given definition conflicts with our intuitions, and obviously determinism is a big part of that.

The incompatibilist argument is at heart very straightforward: free will is incompatible with determinism; determinism is true; therefore free will does not exist. When pressed on the second premise, the incompatibilist can further assert that indeterminism is incompatible with free will, and that determinism and indeterminism exhaust the possibilities (this is just an instance of the law of the excluded middle). Therefore regardless of which one of them holds, free will does not exist.

However, even this argument requires a definition of free will, in order to demonstrate its incompatibility with (in)determinism. It thus suffers from the same 'problem' that you allege compatibilism does: the compatibilist can simply say that the incompatibilist is defining the problem into existence.

I'm curious to know what you think an answer which didn't suffer from the problem you outline would look like.
Can you expand on your argument against the use of technology in this way?

Nothing here compromises your privacy, and nothing will artificially incriminate you. Everything is already public information.

A system like this would be exactly the same as photos being released to the public by the police (which they have), and then random people ringing up saying "That person might be XYZ" (which also happens).

This would be a simple automation of the process to help filter down who it could potentially be (none of the results would be public). It would be up to the police to work out who should be pursued.

Also, I entirely disagree with your statement that technology is the cause. Riots happened before the Internet and social networks. People would be using phones, radio, and word-of-mouth anyway.
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What features of the target OS does a widget set need to utilize? It needs to capture input (multi-touch in this case which all mobile platforms provide) and display the widgets on screen (which obviously all platforms also provide). What "strengths" are there to leverage?

I understand you fear that the widgets will be inconsistent compared to native widgets, but I don't understand why custom widget set would need to be any lower quality (or "bland, mundane and uninspiring") than the native counterparts.
You may be surprised to learn there was debate on this topic from at least the high middle ages. A quick Google search found this write up, which seems to be a pretty good summary.

http://vox-nova.com/2009/10/10/on-multiple-worlds-and-multip...

EDIT: This is quite good too:

http://www.unav.es/cryf/extraterrestriallife.html
For me it was fear of failure but I decided to take the plunge. I didn't want to look back 5 years from now questioning myself. What if? At least I can say i tried.
Re #4: I don't mind the name "leaky"! I took it to mean that you guys are leaking the information that insurance providers don't want consumers to easily get, to the consumers.
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agree, many nonenglishmen will probably have a problem to even type the ^ symbol on their keyboars..
The incompleteness theorem has an interesting "workaround": http://stirling-westrup-tt.blogspot.com/2011/07/tt-ns-2823-u...
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A brief history about myself first..I was born in India..grew up in the middle east and then moved to the u.s. about 12 years ago and have been a citizen of the u.s. for about 5 years.

Having said that, I don't think American's understand how fortunate they are. This is the place where we get clean water and electricity 24/7, women can drive, people can criticize their govt. and not be killed for it and there is an awesome mix of culture and opportunity. The current state of the U.S doesn't bother as much. This is still the place I want to be and raise my children.

I don't think America has lost it's stand in the world. People may judge America but given the chance most people across the world would want to move here :)
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This message isn't exactly breaking news, but I don't think I've seen it discussed here before. Also, not a lot of media coverage.

I guess it's possible that Anonymous eventually goes after facebook on privacy policy grounds, but somehow this message feels a bit too over the top. "Facebook will be destroyed"? Sounds a lot more like Lulzsec than Anon.
No, it is not exactly the same, things have shifted a lot in the last 20 years ago. It used to be "what a police officer happened to see while he was driving down the street in his car", now it is rapidly becoming "what could have a police officer possibly seen at any time and in any location, in all EM wavelengths, tied into massive identifying databases". That is a massive shift in power to the police, its important to proceed cautiously, a free society is much more important than catching criminals.
print foo.makeHello capitalize name

The right associativity of function application is a very peculiar feature and it turns my Haskell brain upside down.
Sounds like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, commonly known as Mormon). I am LDS.

One citation: http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.16-24?lang=eng#... All to come forth in the resurrection of the just & unjust, through Christ the worlds are and were created, the inhabitants are sons and daughters of God.
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Yes, that is a good advice.

Someone wanting to learn Python (or any other language) will be better served if they are helped to focus at most important and least painful things first: in this case, python 2 is everywhere with huge number of libraries. Whatever you need is 'pip install' away.

Learning Python 2 is not a waste of time: whatever you learn and is changed in Python 3, will be easily relearned once it becomes needed.
In general, insurance makes a lot of sense when the events that are insured against are catastrophic and statistically more-or-less independent. Health insurance is the canonical example.

Insuring against events that are likely to occur to every insurance holder simultaneously is much more difficult. AIG, for instance, collapsed when lots of people called in their "mortgage value insurances"; a more paranoid underwriter would need to sit on a huge pool of money until something happened.

Other constructions are possible, but a patent troll targeting one small developer is likely to target so many small developers that actually fighting all those lawsuits would bankrupt everyone. You'd need a few big fishes in the pool to absorb those kind of shocks, and I think the Googles of this world prefer fighting their own battles.
What point are you making here? Is it that since one guy did his job, the rest cannot be looked at hard for corruption? Is it that since your family is now safe from a wreck, that the savers don't need public accountability ever again?
How many shares do you think small investors buy at a time?

If I buy 30 shares of Broadcom @ 32.00 on ETrade (their commission is $9.99), my total price goes from 969.99 to 970.29. If BRCM reverses 30:1, I save $0.29?

I'd think large companies would rather see the price stay affordable. BRK.A/B is a totally different animal.
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Strunk is dead. He can't hurt you anymore. Move on with life and language. It's best to leave the almost century old reference on the shelf and study contemporary writing and references.
I know making up your own titles in generally frowned upon, but this page did not have a good one. And a remake for one of the best games of all-time certainly deserves it!
Some alternative versions of the story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2852160

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2859535

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2860118

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861130

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862971 <- some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2863735
Interesting links and comments. I did not want this discussion to morph too much in to an argument about economics and/or politics. That's why I glossed over them saying "I am aware of all the real world problems and constraints". patrickyeon captured my thoughts well with his comments below about how the system was selecting beneficiaries. That's the point I was trying to highlight.
Good tip.
the reports I read said there was a gunfight, so I guess the police got shot at too. But that story might have changed?
I just loved how it clearly told me its for beginners. That means I can skip this one! Yay!
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It turns out the world’s most powerful man is not a world leader, not an elected official and not a billionaire businessman. If you want to find out who can crash international markets and provoke the loss of trillions of dollars by erasing one letter (A), look no further than David Beers, Global Head of Sovereign Ratings at S&P. The aftermath of S&P’s downgrade to the U.S. credit rating was scary. On Monday, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 6.7% and 5.6%, respectively. All stocks in the S&P 500 retreated for the first time since at least 1996 – and the index’s 10 main groups fell more than 5.3%. So who is this David Beers guy? While most have never heard his name before, he is well known by virtually every finance minister in the world. He is a Wall Street veteran and graduated from the London School of Economics. Beyond that, David Beers background and biography is a mystery to most.

But what’s more of a mystery to most people is the power and relevance of the S&P, or more broadly, the collective group of rating agencies. It’s difficult to fathom how these companies have the authority to shake the global economy like this. Their role is very similar to a credit bureau that hands out scores to households and individuals seeking loans. Their reputation for assessing risk has been shaky on more than one occasion. Could this be a new blackeye for S&P? To be certain, it’s going to be tough for Beers & Co. to adequately justify their recent downgrade of the U.S. Much of the rating report submitted by S&P focused on the political dysfunction of the U.S. government as opposed to its true ability to repay its debt. From S&P’s perspective, the question really isn’t whether the U.S. can repay its debts, it’s whether the U.S. is willing to repay. The political logjam from the recent debt crisis highlighted the fact that the U.S. certainly has the ability to make payments but there are many politicians who are unwilling to write the check. And this is what the S&P is most troubled by. While Warren Buffett thinks the U.S. deserves a "quadruple A" rating, the S&P is only halfway there, and that is making all the difference in the markets today.
Having used EC2 for web hosting I can affirm that you are exactly right. Web hosting on EC2 is a challenge and quite expensive. From my experience EC2 is much better suited for large data storage, distributed computing, and any other use case that can tolerate EC2 quirks, hiccups, and outages.
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scroll down.
Yes, his silly "hands up if you find this more readable" breaks down if you now have two checks at the beginning, and the "rest()" part carries on for more than one line. Then you're carrying around two extra levels of indentation and cognitive context, for what exactly?
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They can be very fake:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09....
cool. i have found components of my compiled code in ancient mesoamerican, indian and arabic math
Is there something more to Dropbox?? 300M round of investment and an astronomical "fairytale" potential valuation of 10B, OMG AYFKM? For a company that provides online sync/storage of files??

That said, good for them, how many times do founders get the short end of the stick?
Does anyone else get the impression that Stefan himself wrote the whole thing (questions included) and just let the reporter publish it whole? These questions are just too perfect, and read like marketing speak.

*It could just be heavily adapted from the conversation, though.
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> What I don't understand is: why doesn't evolution weed out the Vegas types?

People have short memories.

Seriously, that's the answer.
@Tichy That is correct, this doesn't seem to be the most
advanced form of Self-assembly but it could be an important
step towards making a system that, as a whole, is capable of
Self-Reconfiguration (Self-assembly=>Self-Disassemble=>
Self-assembly in to something new)

Imagine a large number of basic building blocks, and a smaller
numbers of of assemblers capable of moving the blocks around.

The individual units would not be capable of Self-Reconfiguration
but the system as a whole would be. It could transform it self
from one state to another state by using the assemblers to
move the building blocks around.

To make the units capable of reconfiguration on their own
or to build a system that is capable of reconfiguration is a
fundamental question in the research field of Self-reconfiguring
modular robotics
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reconfiguring_modular_robo...)
that I find absolutely amazing and that are making great progress
in research and where we are even starting to see some commercial
products beginning to appear.
How many times have you heard this:

1. This will be misused.

2. But someone else will do it if you don't.

3. Okay I'll do it then.
It looks like a neat technique, it just doesn't feel very self-assembly or even robotic to me. Maybe there is just not enough information in the article about what is really going on. Like what happens when one of the things turns into an "U" to wrap the item to move. Is there a magnet shaped like an U in the background? Or something more clever?
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What inspired this idea? Most people would just leave these sort of efforts to the police. I'm not judging, I'm a journalist and I'm legitimately curious.
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My point entirely. Thank you for such an elegant description.
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I think I'm misunderstanding your point. Why would you need two different infrastructures? Anything you can host on ECC you can host on backspace cloud, but without being ephemeral. Or you can order servers by the dozen from other providers.

Maybe you're talking about ordering servers by the hundreds, but are successful startups like foursquare doing that? Seems a few a week is what they'd add, and you could do that with most other hosts, without the added complexity of Amazon.
From the article: "'It's been kind of a shock to the system that it hasn't worked,' said psychologist Eric Turkheimer at the University of Virginia, who had no role in the study. 'We can't find the effects of any individual genes that are large enough to seem worth worrying about.'"

. . . .

"Robert Plomin of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, who's looked for intelligence-related genes for 15 years but didn't participate in the new study, isn't surprised by the latest findings.

"'We've got a century of twin and adoption studies,' such as those comparing twins reared in different families, that support the notion that about half of IQ differences come from DNA, he said.

"Plomin said this doesn't mean half of a person's intelligence is due to genes nor does such a genetic influence imply that a person's intelligence is fixed."
Likewise. Why the hell did they get a syntax shoehorned into C for a language which does not have such constraints?

If they wanted "smaller" lambdas, why not use e.g. C#'s syntax? Or Scala's?

Also, implicit scoping => yet an other broken language. Not worth looking at.
How is this any more readable than:

for(Person p: persons) {
if(p.getAge() >= 18)
// lines of code here
}

If anything, I would argue that this version is clearer since it makes the context of execution more explicit.
strongly disagree