skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing that's faster than C and still a usable language is Fortran.

It has been like that for three decades, I'll be surprised the day it's not the case anymore.
Braintree are yet to publicly launch their service internationally.
> is $279K significantly cheaper than most private airplanes?

No, it's not. You can buy lower-end models of Cessna and Cirrus at similar price... and Cessna Skycatcher costs only half of that ($149,900).
TIL Many authors don't like to read.
Actually the way support works is that github emulates a svn acces layer on top of the git repository. So you can use every repository hosted on github with an svn client and get pretty much the same feature-set as git users.
Should we be making shitty news articles more accessible or understandable, or should we be making the public more literate and intelligent?

At a certain point, dumbing stuff down strips it of all meaning. Our species is going to have to start taking collective responsibility for its collective intelligence if we want a high tech future.
New SimCity Coming to the Mac in 2013
I kind of get this... but without some technology behind it, I don't see how they'd expect some guarantee that eBook lending would be restricted to certain parties.

I'm surprised the AG has not come out against services like BookCrossing which allows individuals to trade physical books and works similarly to LendInk. (Maybe there was and I just didn't hear about it).
Are We All Braggarts Now?
There's also Beanstalk which I believe was the original github-style Subversion service.
Why would you showcase a compacted version of the code...?
I'd consider sending a blast email to your users. After all, they're the ones who are passionate about it.

Maybe there's someone that would love to run the project.
The metadata is not enough to track the merging so you get conflicts where there should be enough knowledge to avoid the conflict. If I remember correctly this happens only in some merging patterns.
38 ACLU offices looking at how government is using license-plate readers
If having another kid means that one spouse is going to have to give up a career, that's a low-quality tradeoff.

That depends entirely on the spouse. In a culture where 2 working parents struggling to survive is the norm, the freedom (financial and otherwise) to be able to choose to stay home to raise children if that's what you want is certainly a high-quality tradeoff.

Being forced to abandon a career when that's not what you want is a low-quality tradeoff, yes.
Close personal friend. Never wanted any publicity. Would take the shirt off his back to help anyone, and never asked for anything back. Perhaps the most solid guy I have had the pleasure to call a friend. Great husband. Great dad....I've never heard anyone echo a negative comment about him. His friendship, humor and sage advice will be missed.
How much are you betting? "multithreaded real-time clock + infix calculator hybrid application" sounds useless and stupid in any language. No one who can code would be stupid enough to write such a thing, specially in C, and specially as a freely available library.
In a non-start-up environment, it's usually not about the business coming to a crashing halt, but that it's hard to quantify the savings that you will reap by fixing something the 'right way.' This means that upper management won't allocate resources or approve projects/budgets/etc.
Yes, ML is adding new constructors to exn type at runtime, but this is different from GHC implementation of dynamic typing which uses typeclasses, because GHC does not add typeclasses at runtime. Take a look at ezyang(who is a GHC developer)'s comments in the post.

I repeat that this is extremely obscure and probably only interesting to people like ezyang. He is engaged in the discussion, so I guess the post was not pointless.
How is that different than some person driving into the side of a lamborghini?
The url ends in p/anic

The syntax looks awful and confusing
And even longer on iPad, but these will only be useful when they can deal with ESC key. Vim without ESC is like Word without mouse.
All good points. I also wonder if foreign finance companies like Stripe are waiting to see what happens with the Euro before making huge man-hour and investment commitments anywhere in the Eurozone. There could be big legal, financial, economic changes ahead there.
Yes, I just gave it a quick shot in Chrome. Make sure to wrap your object tag in a div and target that div with oriDomi. Also, be sure to give the wrapper element the width and height of the swf.

I can't vouch for how robust this is -- especially for interactions -- but it seems to work at least superficially.
Ease of reading I hope!
Hm, interesting. So I could:

- fork a repo on github
- use svn to access that repo
- use svn to make a local/remote branch
- code code code
- commit and push up to github
- then use github pull requests as usual?
شرطة مترو تقوم بحملة لازالة الباعة الجائلين بالتحرير
Before reading the article, I wondered how hot that would be, like 5000 degrees C or something. For reference, the surface of the Sun is approx 10000 F/5500 C.

They're claiming 5.5 trillion degrees Celsius. My mind is unable to comprehend that. A billion times hotter than the surface of the Sun...
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"Roadable airplane" doesn't get the web traffic "flying car" does.

If you just want an airplane, you can get a lot more airplane for $279k. You can get a nice new Cessna 162 for $150k.

I'm not sure what the benefit of the concept is. You're only ever going to drive it from your house to the airport and back. A routine traffic accident will be very expensive and will attract unwanted attention and paperwork from the FAA and NTSB.

If you buy a regular plane you can leave it at the airport for very reasonable tie down or hangar fees, and know it's going to be safe and well cared for.

edit: Anticipating an objection, one could posit this is good for commuters. There is actually a segment of the general aviation population that fly themselves to a job in another city and back every day. You could use a roadable aircraft to drive to the office.

I'd say it's cheaper and better to buy a car and pay to keep it parked at the airport.

Still looking for any practical advantage. If anyone thinks of one I'd love to hear it.

Just thought of another possible objection: "But you don't have to get out, you can just drive into the airport and take off"... no, you can't. You're getting out of that plane to do your preflight checks or you have a death wish.
LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR: http://kx.com/q/c/c/k.h

Note: This is production code.
I pay for it and I think it's worth it for the quality of reporting.
Indeed, this problem has absolutely nothing to do with exceptions, other than that exceptions require the Typeable typeclass. I suspect the author only roped exceptions into his exposition to give him an excuse for that linkbaity title.

The problem isn't even caused by Typeable itself per se, it's caused by wilfully ignoring that you're not meant to define an instance of it manually, you're meant to tell the compiler to derive one automatically. As far as I'm aware, writing your own Typeable instance causes undefined behaviour according to the very specification of the typeclass.

So, yes, Haskell's types are unsafe, if you deliberately go out of your way to subvert them. I'm left wondering... "So what?"
The author argues against the quick-to-blame mob, and yet tries to make it sound like publishers were partly responsible for this ("thanks to ... publisher FUD") and yet nowhere is there any mention of a single publisher involved in this whole debacle (other than Amazon). Something happened to e-books! It must be the publishers! Get your pitchforks!
I think this is on track to change in the next few generations with working from home being more and more legitimate. If you have the skill to do the job, you can be a software engineer that works from home 90%+ of the time today; innovations in telepresence and better collaboration software are going to really push this envelope in the future.
Do you know how to read code? Because it appears that you're attempting to prove you can, but at the same time, you seem willfully ignorant as to the uses of that variable.

Search in the code for that identifier and you might learn why he created it.
Thanks. It is entirely possible that my information is out of date.

If you know of a site where I can trivially test this (ie., small amount, no signup or shipping required), I would be happy to test. I am not in a position to test my own stuff as it is currently all based on recurring payments (which requires a PayPal account).
You'd probably need to wade through the takedown notices, but given they were claiming it was acting in a manner to enable piracy rather than lending the assumption is the majority will have been filed incorrectly.
I'm releasing a book, and considering pirating a similar work to help gain awareness.
Well, they could come out against such services all they like but wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on because of first sale doctrine. And they know that.
This is what incognito mode is for.
Physical access and tampering is conspicuous and suspicious. Rogue-twin WiFi AP is inconspicuous, and few users would suspect anything is amiss.
I just can't force myself to like anything about DZone.
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There's also a lot of other browsers on iPad you can use for this too, notably Chrome.
Ah, I see. I was confused by mixing the non JS version of card creation into the middle of your documentation.
http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/FAQ

> Q: Why are backslashes (\) used as language operators? Isn't that confusing, given they're used in other languages as escape characters?

> A: This is a valid point, but backslashes were chosen for a purely pragmatic reason; on virutally all keyboards, backslashes are very easy to type (requiring only a single keystroke). This is a handy property for backslashes to have because in ANI, you'll be typing them a lot!

> Incomers from other languages might be thrown off a tiny bit, but a programmer that's spent some time with ANI will quickly come to realize that there is actually never any good reason to end a line of ANI code with a syntactual backslash! If one insists on doing so anyway, they are writing ill-formatted code that would be confusing regardless of how backslashes are interpreted by the language. Thus, the backslash conflict is there in theory but irrelevant in practice.

> The usage of \ in the language syntax is a thought-out practical compromise, though the issue may be reconsidered in the future depending on programmer feedback.

To see what the backslash does, see the Pipes section:
http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/Tutorial

Edit: I'm not defending these arguments, simply pointing out that the developers have put forth some reasons.
> Bisect for bug hunting awesomeness

svn-bisect [1]

[1] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?svn-bisect
Watch HBO on your smartphone with HBO GO 
Are you a HBO subscriber? If so,in order to get your videos directly on your mobile device, you'll have to download HBO GO.
Haha, I got most of your typos, but the 'Coming from Jeans' one made me assume that was just some other old, defunct language you must have learned before college, and that I had just never heard of.
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Excellent article, exactly what I think about the idea. I really hope app.net eventually becomes what you hope, it's a great chance!
What Does a CEO Do?
It made me scrub my eyes and go 'buhhh?'. I'm all for new languages trying new things with new syntax and design choices, but make them half decent.
Pre-arranged meetings are the first thing that jumps into people's minds, but do telecommuters really want to replicate the experience of being in meetings? For me, one of the nicer aspects of telecommuting is I can call into meetings and during portions of the meeting that don't apply to me (or are boring) I can work (or surf the web).

On the other hand, people do have a love/hate relationship with meetings: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120519462810425677.html

I can buy into the importance of impromptu meetings. I wonder if the Double team can figure out a way to market around impromptu vs pre-arranged meetings and love/hate meetings without alienating too many people.
The copyright companies lost the moral argument or high ground long ago.
Try using the SwitchMe app described in the article. I use it to share my Nexus 7 with my wife. It requires root, but you have a Nexus tablet, it's made to be rooted. It also requires a reboot to switch users, but the Nexus 7 is fast enough it isn't much of a problem.

Hopefully the next Android release will complete the built in account switching.
FYI, the temps accessible at the LHC are no where near high enough that this is a consideration.
Isn't Key Lime Pie supposed to have multiple account support baked in?
Has there ever been an industry-wide study of this? i.e. which/how many startups saw increases in revenue/signups after putting more content behind a paywall?
Bob Harper is a pillar of PL research, I think the credentials of his detractor deserve just a tiny bit more scrutiny. It's one thing to refute his assertions, and it's something else entirely to dismiss them as "troll" or "butthurt".
I guess he was trying to demonstrate what you can achieve with a small number of characters. It may not be a good idea from a marketing perspective but come on... "Saw that, closed the page" is simply narrow minded.
Google Improves Patent Search With Prior Art Finder & Many European Patents
Avast throws a Trojan warning for me. Not sure if it's justified or not.
http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

See footnotes/citations.
I have too seemingly opposing thoughts on this.

One part of me says "Don't reinvent the wheel", but the other part of me suspects that forcing a new language to follow the syntactical conventions of another language that was designed with different considerations in mind is a bad idea.

The best example of a language that I think suffers from it's association with the syntax of another is C++. The features that it provides are all more or less fine, but cramming it into a syntax that was made for a much simpler language really wasn't a good idea.

(I understand why it was done from a historical perspective, and understand the few benefits it affords, but I think those are particular to that example)

On the other hand again, there really isn't a lack of syntaxes these days that a new language developer can look to for inspiration. Surely one of them should work fine most of the time.
Oh, I'm libertarian in many ways as well, but generally agree with you on farm subsidies with the exception of ethanol. I think it's criminal for us to be taking some of the most productive farmland in the world, and growing corn on it to burn in our cars. It's a net negative in terms of energy, and is almost solely due to Iowa having an inordinate amount of influence due to the timing of their primary.

Also, witness the affects of the sugar tariffs that have given rise to the widespread use of HFCS. If it weren't for these, we'd still have Coca-Cola flavored with real sugar. Instead we have to import it from Mexico...
I think the explanation is much more simple: it's working because most people aren't tech-savvy enough to figure out the loopholes and feel comfortable using them on a regular basis.

Kind of an interesting form of freemium business model, actually...
I would say `unsafePerformIO` exist for calling C code. Since the Haskell type system can't prove that the C function you're calling is pure, the programmer needs to assert this fact by using `unsafePerformIO` at the call site. There are other possible uses of course, but I'd say this is the main one.
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They could also hardcode OSX for one user account too in that case.

I doubt it would cost sales, especially when any iPad owner could have bought 3 small Android tablets for the same price.
What surprised me most - in addition to the fact that flying a plane is definitely not quite like driving a glorified bus - was the old timey manuals that actually hoged a lot of valuable cockpit real estate.

Imagine about seven quite massive ring binders on the floor on the right side of the first officer.

Today they probably have that all on an iPad. I could imagine, though and given how conservative the aviation industry is, that they still have to lug around the entire amount of paper.

That, however and admittedly, is just a guess.
^Yes.
The Samwer bros are probably building to sell to Stripe, so they're using credit cards for Paymill to easily integrate into Stripe when that time comes.
So the question is then, are any of them going to be prosecuted for perjury and lying under oath? I believe you must swear under penalty of perjury to send a DMCA notice.
No way! That's awesome. Thanks for the clue.
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Facebook site integrity engineer Dan Muriello on keeping the bad guys out
What did you expect: Farenheit?... Any scientific paper will refer to temperature either in Kelvin or Celsius ... and the difference between the two at that scale is quite small.
If you delete the entirety of the URL past the ".html" on a blocked NYT article you can bypass the paywall.
* The language couldn't possibly be simpler... *

followed by

* getChopsticks = [--> ?] { \chopstick, \nextPhil.chopstick --> }; *

is just dripping with irony.
Ah, I didn't realise this.
To address your second point, how is it that Southwest can consistently provide friendly service? They have to deal with the same stressors that their competitors face.

Don't underestimate the importance of leadership and management prowess in how employees perform.
posts like this do not even begin to cover the intricacies and scale of large development projects with make-it-or-break-it business timelines. we're not all building apps.
I don't think there's much of a problem with calling it a temperature. They don't use that term when describing merely one particle scattering off another, they only use it when they are colliding whole nuclei and there are enough particles to observe a thermal distribution. The key part about having a temperature is to have a distribution of modes (e.g. free particle momentum states) and that there is enough mixing around between these modes to generate a thermal distribution.
Hrm... This seems a little like the worst of both worlds. It's horrible as a car (in the sense of something you'd drive to work everyday), and for the money it's not the most cost effective airplane either.

Many people seem to think "flying car" == "I can just launch and avoid all the rush hour traffic, and then land in my driveway". The reality of course is far different, you have to drive this to/from an airport.

I'm curious what problem this is intended to solve.
Libraries don't pay a higher price to buy books.

EDIT: in the U.S.
Aw, I thought for a second that was an actual subversion command. I don't doubt that the perl script handles it effectively though.
There's that word again.. "fault"

The only truth is power. Legally the site was in the clear, and yet the authors had enough power to shut it down.

Many of the authors understood that it was legal but still did not like it because it skirted the spirit of the contract which that lending is for family and friends.

The strangest part of this story is that some outraged people were able to close a website they didn't have any claim to.
A lot of US interstates have a speed limit of 80; in that case it's only marginally faster speed-wise. But, going between two points on a straight line helps too. I'm more amused, though, that it's less efficient when the wheels aren't touching the ground. I guess I always just assumed that air travel was more efficient than a vehicle that touches the ground, creating lots of relative drag.
You are assuming that all businesses should innovate. That is not true. Mostly businesses are about execution and price. Samwer is playing by the rules and winning.
That last line worries me...I live in phoenix and most summer days are above 110' F...41'C is 105.8' F :/

Hopefully there is some clarification to explain how I won't die...
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Ironically this may increase your reputation, as honesty and genuineness are extremely valued traits.

Most corporations fail to realize this.
Did you just read the title and post? The entire article is about the email and tweets he got saying exactly this. And then him debunking this position. Not very convincingly, but anyway.

It's the opening paragraph.
it's just the sheer amount of packets hitting our network that cause the issue, not what is inside them!
*especially

Sorry.

Anyway, the components that you would need to build such a thing are certainly all available.
An Intentional Life
You could ask they the same question about C-like syntaxes? Was it really necessary to invent anything new after somebody had hit upon S-Expressions?

Anyway, to answer in the affirmative: Certain paradigms provide from certain syntax. E.g. Haskell would be much clunkier to write in a C-like syntax than with the ML-derived one it has. And Lisp's macros would be harder to pull off with a different syntax. In my opinion, Python also profits from syntactic differences with C.

Somebody more knowledgeable could talk about SQL-syntax.

> At the very least, people should approach new languages from an ease of typing angle. I look at that and all I can think is "That would be a bitch to type out. Doing it all day? No thank you."

Old languages would also benefit from that approach. We've seen some alternative syntaxes JavaScript, but not really for something like C.
I just imagined the author reading that post and smirking to themselves.
Nor should you (be able to equate the two). Very roughly speaking, temperature is akin to a measure of the average energy density. Joule is a measure of energy and watt is a measure of energy per unit time. So, they give you a measure of how fast they delivered the energy (in terawatts), how much energy was delivered (in megajoules) but this does not tell us anything about the temperature at which the sample was heated since we don't know the size of the target.
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Dataflow ideas are cool, but this syntax is kind of crazy. It sounds like a neat concept to redo in a more palatable approach.
Ironic that you're not posting under a real name. And your account is only a hair over a year old.

Is it really relevant that his account is new? Or should HN put up a delay that you can only post a reply after your account has aged appropriately?

And this isn't a new thing for the internets. No one knows you're a dog...
Another way to look at it is that an interface wraps a type by adding a pointer to an extra data structure, which identifies the type and functions on the type that implement the interface. Since interface{} has no functions, all that it carries is the type; it's concretely represented as a pair of the value and its type. Which is more or less how any language implements an "any" type.

(Disclaimer: it still feels awkward to me, but I found understanding the implementation of it helped me understand the why better. See also http://research.swtch.com/interfaces .)
Android Phones are more affordable compare to iPhones.
Sad that you have to be a USA resident :/
This specific one is just bad though. I mean "\" is really difficult to type on almost all non-us keyboards. It's not even really easy on US keyboards (the pinky has to go a long way). See how often it's in there. Even standard C syntax is a pain on some non-us keyboards. I.e. on a German keyboard, the [, [, {, }, are rather difficult to type. That's why I (being German) switched to an English layout around two years ago. Now I have trouble typing umlaut and thus writing good German, but at least my coding speed improved by probably 50% and my Hand hurts far less.