skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is "a pox on both houses" disingenuous pablum. Consider their description of the Reinhart-Rogoff affair:

This intellectual disagreement over the impact of fiscal decisions has spilled into the public domain with the fight between Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman and the Harvard Duo of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Here is the letter written by Reinhart and Rogoff labeling Krugman‘s comments on their work as “spectacularly uncivil behavior.” The spat is over the impact of debt on economic growth.

What the author must have known, but fails to mention, is that Reinhart-Rogoff was wrong due their selective data usage and spreadsheet errors.
Causing traffic delays and creating a ruckus is not a part of one's First Amendment rights. Nor should it be - that gives the minority an effective veto on the lives and productive capacities of random people.
Programmers already have a ridiculous number of constraints to juggle. Every constraint you add reduces your ability to optimize for the others.

Potentially, using a low-feature editor could arguably be like jogging with weights. It could teach you good habits that then make you more effective once you switch back to a powerful editor. But you don't bring your weights on race day.
Standalone engines are subject to fewer attacks from untrusted code, so they're probably easier to exploit than a browser. So I can't really agree with you on a security perspective. And incognito mode / using a separate browser profile / portable browser installs are all options to completely preserve privacy that are either as convenient or more convenient than installing an interactive fiction engine.
Not only that, it seems they will match your phone number if any of your friends upload their contact list to Facebook.
Except the flashlight actually exists.
"broad pool of economists from Ivies"

What are Ivies? At first I thought you meant Ivy League but more than half of the experts polled are not from Ivy League schools. (Chicago, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford)
My point is the definition of science gets misconstrued. The general populous assumes that something that is scientific is a "truth". We often say "Big Bang Theory" not the "Big Bang Truth". In economics the line between truth and theory gets massively blurred (for reasons I'm not going to begin debating here).

So when the Fed decides to drop the interest rates or a Harvard economics professor writes a report on how X will cause Y, we consider these to be absolutes. Meaning, if for every time X happens, there is a reactionary Y that needs to happen to keep growth consistent. We just believe because they've created an economy theory to support it, that is must be true.
Economists, like most people, want to defend their reputations. When they are proven wrong by events, they find it painful to admit they were wrong. Paul Krugman wrote about this in a recent blog post:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/three-unsayable-...
Oh, sample size is 40! And it's only US economists. And only economists in academia.

That poll is not biased at all and represents the point of view of all economists in the world!

I'm sure the 40 economists will Strongly Agree on this with a high confidence.
This is an insightful post. The numbers posted above start at 1990 which was the tail-end of the decades of heroin, cocaine and crack epidemics in NYC. It looks like crime is back down towards a rate similar to 1965:

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm

Not sure about the exactness of these statistics, just a quick google result that seems legit.
Don't forget that the content you find on HN has to come from somewhere. How do articles get here?

1) Either the content author posts it, or someone who follows the blog/website/whatever posts it.

2) Those who spend time reading /newest actually upvote posts enough to get them to the front page.

If you enjoy the front page of HN, that's great! But the process of getting there isn't exactly automatic -- it depends on those who dig through unfiltered content.
Looks like she's just using the Peltier effect to power some LEDs. I doubt the flashlights would work well, if at all, at room temperature but would be useful in a cold climate.
Uhm, that article is in German I guess? Please try using at least Google translate.
If you configure youtube to use the HTML5 player, there's an option to watch videos at 1.5 or 2X speed..

key points I remember:

* Java isn't dead, or dying; it's still among the most popular languages and growing, based on analysis of data from github, stackoverflow, and mailing lists

* It doesn't command the same relative amount of mind / marketshare as it did in its heyday, but that doesn't really matter; the market is bigger, and it's still growing

* there is a significant correlation between programmer age and use of Java

* ease of initial installation is an underappreciated factor determining which technologies get adopted and become popular
I think you misunderstand the meaning of the term "Hacker" in the context of this site. From Google:

Hacker:
1. An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user.
2. A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.

It sounds to me like you are confusing the second definition with the first. This is a site for people to find the the most relevant news regarding technology and anything else that people with such interest would find intellectually stimulating. The article has nothing to do with technology but does fit into the intellectually stimulating category if people here are interested in it but do not confuse that with this being a place to discuss "disobedience" as you put it.

You can think of this site as being "Technology Enthusiast News" with startups being one of the primary focuses of discussion.
He does not care about your minor decision, he is instead annoyed by your post to announce your minor decision to the world.
Don't we need a social body (government) to enforce contracts? Be they social, financial, etc.

Edit: And to avoid might makes right?
I listened to it as well and your summary is a good one. If I were a Java developer in the audience I'd feel reassured, but not too excited.
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It's a great idea and a great science project, I just don't see how practical it would be due to how little light it would produce. Even if I kept it in the back of my car to aid in a possible road repair (perfect situation for a no battery device) I don't know how effective it would be. Perhaps that's just the skeptic in me?
As someone with poor circulaton to the extremities I fear I would be walking around in the dark holding the flash light with cold hands.

Its a really nice idea though. Its stories like this that make me wish i paid a bit more attention in science when i was younger.
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I guess this is a consequence of the development of the LED. LEDs being so efficient allows for very low power sources and a thermocouple seems to be enough to light them. Pretty cool!
> The talk mostly deals with Java the language, not so much the JVM

Have yet to watch the video, but my biggest problem with Java was THE language and swing.
Given that they permit weapons and pornography, if they're otherwise just a direct clone of Stripe with the MasterCard brand, they're pretty awesome. I'd be fine if it cost 3.5%, but it's actually cheaper too.
> hidden taxes, such as inflation.

Maybe it was a typo, but I think you should double check what inflation means.
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Uninsured motorist protection. i.e. you get hit by a driver with out insurance.
haha, thanks ;)
yeah, I'm interested. just sent you an email.
"...to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak ... to further the well-being of mankind."

Or if you like

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The moment that you abolish government I will personally get a gang together to make you regret the action. The power vacuum will be filled, and given the opportunity I would much rather be the one wearing the boots than the one getting his face kicked in.

I like to think that most libertarians are mostly confused anarchists, and thus mostly imbeciles, but those that can deny the necessity of government altogether are beyond idiocy into an entirely separate plane of existence. It's beyond even opprobrium; we simply do not live in a world that would permit large groups of humanity to live without some form of government.
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That's true of most people, but in some situations Java's unavoidable.
> Wrong.

What? Static languages doesn't ensure type safety? Or errors due to wrong use of types doesn't get uncovered in unit tests? Unit tests runs the code, so when it runs code where wrong types or names are a problem, the code will fail, thus uncovered... Doesn't help for code you don't have tests for though, which instead require manual testing.

The type system does need more information from the user to allow the same kind of flexibility in a type safe environment. Polymorphism either through interfaces or class inheritance is basically a way to tell the compiler that "Hey, i know these objects look different, but they do support the function/method I'm calling, so relax ok?".

When someone says they don't understand the use of dynamically typed languages in a real world setting, it makes sense to mention that a company like GitHub mainly uses a dynamically typed language in their product. Heck, even Facebook uses a dynamically typed language quite extensively in PHP. Yes, you could make the argument that alot of successfull projects use statically typed languages, and naturally they do. The point is that dynamically typed languages work just fine in a real world setting.
Yeah I mis-spoke. it Queries by Licence Plate, I know they said it checks insurance, registration, and if the car is registered to a person that is wanted or has warrants out against them it will flag that vehicle.
Nice. I didn't know that. I wonder when they started that? https://www.bayareafastrak.org/vector/dynamic/signup/VTconfi...
No, that isn't right.

Years before the first release of Clojure, Rich used to maintain a parallel build of Clojure for both platforms before concentrating on the JVM; but that is ancient history, and isn't relevant to ClojureCLR today.

ClojureCLR is a port maintained by David Miller, Rich doesn't work on it, so it isn't surprising that he hasn't made any comments about it.

Though it is true that the CLR implementation has much less adoption than the JVM or JS implementations.
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I'm not sure how it works but would having a small recess of water inside the flashlight help maintain the temperature difference? So that when you have used the flashlight enough that its temperature has risen to that of your hand, you can fill it up with water or ice and it'll cool down a little.
You have to agree that there is some truth to O'Grady's arguments. There has been a lot of hate about Java in the recent times, but its not just inertia that is keeping Java in the market. There is just no competitor to that language and its ecosystem. The youtube description refers to these new languages "newer, more hyped alternatives". As much as I would love functional constructs, syntactic sugar in Java, such features are not solving the real problems one expects from a programming language in the long run.
I'm conflicted about license-plate cameras. On one hand, I think there is definitely the privacy risk. On the other hand, if we had speeding cameras everywhere (like in say Sydney), we'd have a lot less need for traffic cops and all of the abuse that comes from them.
Yes, that's essentially the functionality of the flashlight, which makes it no less remarkable an accomplishment for someone her age.

I don't care about the use case or whether it works well. I care that it exists.
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I disagree. I think that is probable cause.

I don't think there should be a penalty for it, but it's definitely worth checking out.

For example, if there's a man with a suspended license and no wife or kids, it would be suspicious for his car to just be on the road.
this project will totally change the world !!
Law is the codification of morality.
Love Neutron Drive and this FTP Client rocks. It is awesomely fast.
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I saw a reference to this on the original seasons of Arrested Development, however I thought it was something ridiculous the show's writers had concocted. I had absolutely no idea that it was parodying real life.
Maybe we could just be happy for the kid and imagine what she could be making at 25?
Well, in the spirit of the topic, here are my counter-predictions.

I'm betting that between now and quantum computers, memristors will play a significant role, and (as I understand them) they'll push us much further toward parallel computing than multi-core and device networking would. A friend of mine believes they will behave as a network of small computing units, so he's betting on an actor model. We'll see!

The book "Trillions" [1] talks a lot about computing future, and focuses very heavily on the idea of "device fungibility" with "data liquidity" - basically the idea that the computing device is insignificant and replaceable, as the computing work&data can move freely between them. When you consider how prevalent general-computing devices are-- microwaves, toasters, cars, phones, dish-washers, toys, etc-- this is pretty compelling. I highly recommend that book.

Now, I personally think localized connectivity&sync between devices, strong P2P Web infrastructure, and more powerful client participation in the network will alter the importance of vertical-scaling central services and give much more interesting experiences to boot (as things in your proximate range will factor much more largely into your computing network). "Cloud computing" as we have it now is really just renting instead of buying. Yes, you can easily spin up a new server instance, but it's much more interesting to imagine distributing a script which causes interconnected browser peers to align under your software. Easy server spin-up? Try no server! This means users can drive the composition of the network's application software, which should create a much richer system.

Considering privacy issues, I think it's an important change. Not only is it inefficient to always participate in centralized services and public networks, it's unsafe. P2P and localized network topologies improve that situation. Similar points can be made about network resiliency and single-points-of-failure-- how efficient is it to require full uptime from central points vs. minimal uptime from a mesh? I imagine it depends on the complexity of decentralized systems, but I'm optimistic about it.

Along with network infrastructure and computing device changes, I think the new VR/AR technology is going to flip computing on its head. Not only do we gain much more "information surface area" - meaning we can represent a lot more knowledge about the system - but we gain a ton of UX metaphors that 2d can't do. One thing I get excited about is the "full spectrum view" of a system, where you're able to watch every message passed and every mutation made, because in the background you can see them moving between endpoints, and, hey, that process shouldn't be reading that, or, ha, that's where that file is saving to.

So TL;DR: I say the future of computing is VR/AR, peer-connective, user-driven, and massively parallel.

1 http://www.amazon.com/Trillions-Thriving-Emerging-Informatio...
"Standalone engines are subject to fewer attacks from untrusted code, so they're probably easier to exploit than a browser."

Probably? This is purely speculative.

I'd be interested to see any actual exploits of Interactive Fiction engines. So far, they are a much less attractive target to malware authors than web browsers are. That alone makes me prefer them over web browsers, no matter what their theoretical vulnerabilities may be.

"incognito mode / using a separate browser profile / portable browser installs are all options to completely preserve privacy"

Users are often tracked by their IP addresses as well as OS and browser fingerprinting, which Javascript can facilitate. Try going to Panopticlick[1] with Javascript turned off and then with it turned on and see the difference.

"that are either as convenient or more convenient than installing an interactive fiction engine."

But I already have multiple Interactive Fiction engines installed, so using them is perfectly convenient for me. As for others, how many people do you think actually bother to use a separate browser profile or even "incognito mode"? Not a hell of a lot. And if they do, they might also do what I do and disable Javascript altogether.

[1] - https://panopticlick.eff.org
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First, one should not rely on consensus or general agreement. Historically, the "consensus" or prevailing theory has been wrong or substantially flawed many times. Furthermore in most scientific fields one can find a number of highly qualified dissidents who do not accept the "consensus." They are often small in absolute number, but an absolute consensus is quite rare. Finally, periods of rapid scientific and technological progress are often characterized by a lack of consensus.

Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve policies are largely the prescription of Milton Friedman and the monetarists. Friedman argued that the Great Depression was caused by allegedly tight monetary policy in the 1930's that resulted in a massive series of runs on banks and crashes. He argued that the Great Depression could have been averted by loose monetray policy along the lines of quantitative easing.

For many years, until recently, conservative, business, and libertarian groups embraced Friedman's ideas probably in part because quoted out of context, they shifted the blame for the Great Depression from misconduct and bad decisions by private corporations and wealthy individuals to the federal government and civil servants who provide little funding to conservative, business, and libertarian lobbying groups. Friedman's arguments also argued that the government need only have provided cheap money to prevent/cure the Great Depression rather than activist government programs such as Social Security and the alphabet soup of public works programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Keynesian economics strongly disagreed with the Friedman/monetarist theory. Keynesians argue that the United Staes did have loose monetary policy in the 1930's and it did not work. They argue that the United States and much of the world was in a liquidity trap, an unusuall situation in which interest rates reach or nearly reach zero but a negative interest rate is needed to produce a revival of consumption and demand. Pouring money into the economy through the Federal Reserve or other central bank won't work. Nor will there be much inflation, because the money just sits in bank accounts unused.

In Keynesian economics, absent some extreme positive economic shock like the invention of a new energy source, the government must borrow heavily and spend heavily to restart the economy, pulling it out of the liquidity trap, which it is argued is what World War II finally did in the 1940s.

Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman and Dean Baker argue that the United States has been in a liquidity trap since the crash in 2008. The liquidity trap theory makes a prediction that has so far been borne out, that inflation will remain low despite the huge infusion of money from quantitative easing and huge budget deficits. These other folks such as John Taylor, Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, and various other cricits of both Ben Bernanke and the Keynesians like Krugman have been consistently wrong about inflation for the last five years.

Sincerely,

John
Wow, her dad is my coworker and I heard this casually mentioned at work the other day that his daughter was working with Peltiers and I should consult with her because I am also working with Peltiers for characterization of phase change materials.

Also note, calling the device a Peltier is a misnomer, her flashlight is a thermoelectric device utilizing the Seebeck Effect, similar but opposite to the Peltier Effect. Peltier has just become the connotation for thermoelectric devices.

The Seebeck effect only works with a temperature gradient, the flashlight will begin to heat up when held and the Peltier will produce less power. The next step is to add a heat sink and fan to maintain a temperature gradient for operation longer than 20mins.
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I was interested, so I found the original John Yoo opinion on the subject: http://works.bepress.com/johnyoo/9/
So.. do you have any examples of this?

Because I have a counter example: A large part of the drama in shows like Law and Order on the legal side comes from the process of acquiring a warrant or prosecuting a case where it turns out that the evidence was acquired unlawfully.
Who believes what?
in this case I just thought I should ask first. thanks for the input.
The functional programming one is great. As a self-taught programmer who has mostly learned on the job, I've struggled with understanding functional programming (since I've never had the opportunity to use it for work), and that helped me along quite a bit.

A good collection overall..
He didn't delve much into the proliferation of JVM-based languages, which is significant, even if Java (the language) doesn't have the same 'excitement'.

What I expected to hear, but didn't in so many words:

The trend of people migrating to higher-level languages will continue. Of course, if performance is important, you'll move to C or C++ at the other pole. Read PG's "Beating the Averages".

Considering the growth of multi-core programming, there will be movement towards the high-level end of the spectrum (Lisp). The languages people will eventually end up at will be something JVM-based (so Clojure, or at least Scala), if Twitter's move from Ruby to JRuby to Scala is any indication of the failings of Python/Ruby to handle multi-threading.

Frameworks like Hadoop, and lightweight servers like Jetty, allow people to program for HPC and web servers in JVM-land while being OS-agnostic. Once the migration to high-level JVM languages takes shape, Java will be the new C -- a "high-level assembly" language.
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