skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, actually speed was a design goal for Common Lisp. Thus the standard defines the semantics of a compiler, including a file compiler. The CL standard provides stuff like stack allocation, inlining, fast function calling, compiler macros, type system, type declarations, compiler strategy annotations, lots of primitive constructs (like GO in TAGBODY). Most real implementations add several more speed-relevant features.

If you say that Common Lisp 'happens to be fast by accident', then this is completely misleading. 'fast' was a design goal and many implementors have done quite a lot to make demanding applications (like huge object-oriented CAD systems) to be fast.
So, no caselaw actually touches 1201(a)(1) in this way, contrary to GP's assertion?
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> I never understood why so many C# programmers automatically default to these MS technologies without even looking around.

Many C# programmers are C# programmers because they (or, in many cases, their employers) default to MS technologies without even looking around.
Anecdotally, Using NFS with Vagrant / Virtualbox instead of the default Virtualbox shared folder speeds up things drastically.
Add the following line in your Vagrantfile to test it out:

config.vm.share_folder "/vagrant", "/vagrant", "./", :nfs => true

Also, tweaking the DNS settings seems to help:

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "off"]

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "off"]
Thanks, I just created it a couple months ago. Found I was constantly researching/learning new things as a sysadmin and thought I would share my notes. Helps me remember too ;) If you have any episode ideas please shoot me an email [check my prfile].
I could see it as a superior alternative to touch on desktops.
> And selling something so basic as food is exactly that.

There is very little that is as stress free as being a programmer. Certainly not the food industry. My wife's cousin is a chef. Her job is terribly interesting, but she works 80 hours a week to make 1/3 as much money as a programmer and has to deal with tremendously demanding situations (cooking at peak dinner service).
2 options:
Active: he has a server or service where if he doesn't check into or send an email to, passwords and instructions are sent to his collaborators.

Passive: he has collaborators whom he actually trusts, and who will open the contents and release if something fishy happens to him.

My bet is on the former as it limits the odds that his contacts could 'defect' and release the contents early which would limit his leverage (assuming that this plan actually gives him any).
Climate Corp in Seattle does ag insurance with Clojure. Pretty cool people.
IANAL, but I don't think a DMCA takedown is required to sue the infringing party, just to sue the ISP that may happen to be distributing a copy without a valid license.
At least Bing supports the hash fragment as well, but it looks like you have to enable it manually http://www.bing.com/blogs/webmaster/f/12248/p/671232/9669509...
Exactly. There are also examples from across the country that seem to flare-up periodically. Western media doesn't cover most of them as they tend to be smaller-scale scuffles.
Snapchat will not have all of the options available to them until they send a valid C&D.
Objective-C API Smell: NSNumber
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Google Takes 6.3% Stake In Google Glass Tech Supplier Himax Display
I pre-ordered one early and have been waiting for what seems like forever. Mine should be arriving in a day or so.

I have a lot lower expectation than Leap seems to be espousing - as an interesting and offbeat UI device fun for developing.

It's certainly not the next coming UI paradigm. There's been enough UI and human physiology research that would tell people that holding up ones arms to point to things on the screen is not a feasible method for interacting with a computer (Minority Report not withstanding).

I think Leap made a big mistake going from a hacker group making an interesting device to a world changing UI group. They can never sustain this business model.

I'll enjoy my Leap and show it off as an amazing idea of technology but I'm not holding my breath that this will replace a mouse or trackpad.
un-rot13 is encryption circumvention? Source?
Indeed. There is a reason the draw primitive rate is so different on the PS3 and a PC with the same GPU.
Thank you, now I have more things to point people at than just my blog post.
Is that true? I thought it only applied to suing ISP if they failed to preserve their safe harbor status.
Great, another thing Microsoft is ruining for us "thanks" to UEFI. Are they pretty committed to this instead of device tree, though? I mean Windows RT is pretty dead in the water. Is ARM really going to dump everything else just for the almost dead Windows RT OS?

I wish people protested the move to UEFI and the forcing of OEM's and chip makers to use it. I think in the future we'll look back and more people will agree with this.
Or we should expect that UEFI/ACPI is such a high cost that there will be very few boards that support RHEL.
But one thing I could not really figure out is whether this so-called FTL travel has the potential to violate causality, because I don't fully understand how causality and FTL are related.

The relationship is that FTL in one reference frame is travel backwards in time in another.

If you're able to travel FTL in 2 different inertial reference frames, then you should be able to travel backwards in time and violate causality. Note that the "should" here is important - I can think of lots of possibilities for how that should could be prevented.

That said, I'd be much more optimistic about the plausibility of a proposed warp technology that only lets you go FTL relative to the implicit reference frame of the distant stars. Because that avoids any possibility of causality violation.
Tiano's already fairly modular - it's not too difficult to replace chunks of the hardware-specific code. ACPI is more of a problem. Long-term I'd expect SoC vendors to provide reference tables which end up being hacked by board and system vendors, which is actually pretty much what happens already in the x86 world (your BIOS vendor ships a reference table that includes code from people like Intel, and then you modify it to match your specific board)
geeks and politics, just like water and oil.
Piwik calls those "goals". You can definitely kick those off from javascript. We run piwik on our web solitaire site (http://greenfelt.net) and kick off goals when users do things like complete a game. The code looks like this:

if (piwikTracker)
piwikTracker.trackGoal(2);

My only annoyance is that you have to reference things by numbers and not some nice string that reads well in the code... But it works and it's something you setup once and forget about, so I got over it.
Why I Quit Googling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKrCs1rFRI#t=1m19

Fogus: Say my name--

Declan: You're Heisenberg.

Fogus: -- to 1,000,000 Java programmers and--

Declan: WTF?

--

On a more serious note, the above is my way of giving props because Joy of Clojure is a really good book.
There will probably be something like a "reasonable person" test for obscenity. However, there is pornography that depicts rape without being actual rape. If the intention is to ban fetish porn, then it is a clear violation of freedom of speech. Whether that is constitutional in Britain is beyond me, since they seem to be much less absolute about free speech than in the U.S., but clearly have some protections as well.

In the U.S., there was a recent Supreme Court decision [1] throwing out a law intended to ban crush porn, in which a woman crushes a small animal to death with her feet. They ruled that it was over-broad and could outlaw, for instance, hunting videos. A new law was passed immediately after the decision that had more specific language, and it has not, to my knowledge, been tested in court yet. Meanwhile, the court has upheld bans on child porn.

It seems to me that there is no need to ban possession of images depicting actions that are already illegal, but courts seem to think it's OK in the U.S.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Stevens
I was excited about this, until I heard the Canadian VC/angel requirement.

If they really want to encourage foreigners to found startups, they should allow private investors to become angels, even if the investor in question is of foreign status. Think about it: you have a bunch of rich people injecting large amounts of money into your economy, and the only thing you have to do is give one person permanent residency - and there's a chance their company will be successful and contribute to the economy even more.
I'll look for myself, but in order to float both the question and possible responses out of the full details, are there age boundaries?

--

P.S. In an initial, brief search, I did not find any mention of specific age qualifications attached to this program (beyond, I suspect, being at least 18 years old).
No offense taken, and thanks for the overall support!

As to:

> "Do you have any evidence that your site is the reason the USPTO found this?"

Well, the office has told us directly that examiners are reviewing the site. So, when they then reject an application, based primarily on art posted on the site, that was asked for and posted there just prior to the actual review, it makes me highly optimistic that it's not all a coincidence, although I suppose that's theoretically possible.
DarkJPEG
The war on drugs is "obsolete" (or some other variant of fail) only insofar as we assume that the purpose of the war on drugs is to reduce or eliminate drug use. But if you put its purpose into indirect terms - enforcing class distinctions, providing minor harassment charges to apply to social undesirables, encouraging the militarization of police forces, providing a funding firehose for certain government agencies, and making a convenient and simplistic boogieman for cheap politicians - it's a spectacular success.
Apple 'Hack': Shooting the Messenger
Article lays out some examples of some things the author thinks make C# better than C#-with-MS-libs.

Doesn't quite lay out how this makes C# a better choice than the other languages mentioned at the start of the article.
For the past couple of years, I've always done any web scraping with trusty python + beautiful soup or elementtree. I've recently started doing it with Clojure + Enlive (mostly as an excuse to use clojure for less academic excercises) but I really like it.

From that perspective, Upton looks pretty cool, especially the debug mode.
Instead ask: Since everyone's already carrying around a very powerful processor and lots of memory, why should they carry around a second processor and memory just to work on a large screen?
pg's "Ramen Profitable" essay contains an excellent Rice and Beans recipe: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
This fascinates the hell out of me.

It's simultaneously infuriating and awe-inspiring that something that's visible to the naked eye - stars - could be so completely out of reach for us.

However, with the recent work of Drs Alcubierre and White, it's clear that cracks are forming in the Impossibility of FTL travel.

That leads me to believe the FTL is inevitable, because in the history of science, whenever we begin to see how maybe something could kinda, sorta, maybe exist, it's usually just a matter of time (perhaps centuries) until we crack it.
JRebel is produced in Estonia. So it seems to work out well.
In Firefox --> Right "click" on the link and choose "Open Link in New Private Window".
> Yeah, though Idris I think will soon become the “reasonable trade-off” language

That would be cool.

Don't know anything about Epigram though. Dependent types is still firmly on my todo list.
"seeks to denigrate the idea that individuals have any control over the outcomes in their lives"

Nice strawman. I certainly don't believe that.

"You make your own luck by putting yourself in a position to have good things happen to you. You make your own luck by preparing yourself to take advantage of opportunities that come along."

This is true, but it is only half the story. Different environments have different amounts of opportunity. America has far more opportunity than Afghanistan, making your own luck will get you a lot farther in America and you can't "make" which country you were born into. Environment plays a huge role, even within America. Health plays a huge role, even in America. Anyone that is successful has been very fortunate, and a lot of smart hard workers have not been fortunate. It's important to recognize that.
The course is also asking us to create a kickstarter-style page, which I've got at http://notedcode-bitstarter.herokuapp.com
I wholly agree. Having worked for a Linus-type, I've seen both sides of the coin. Yes, you need tangible requirements, project goals, assigned responsibility and real consequence for harmful actions in a large-scale project, but you don't need to be a dick about it. Of course, if that's your nature, then that's who you are. But people who aren't dicks don't need to be to get the same results. Much love to Linus, but for me, FLOSS isn't about that. It's about providing a positive service to humanity that allows freedom, education, communication and a whole host of socially beneficial functions to the world. How is being a dick conducive to that beautiful product of our FLOSS efforts? Cheers :)
The important thing for me is that it's actively maintained and enhanced. I haven't tried Navicat before.
It is sad because it is too close for comfort. It could happen to me. It also sets a bad price anchor for programmers.
>That said, I'd be much more optimistic about the plausibility of a proposed warp technology that only lets you go FTL relative to the implicit reference frame of the distant stars. Because that avoids any possibility of causality violation.

I don't understand what you're getting at. It would be trivial for someone close by to match that reference frame, and then what?
> Forget gorilla glass, we have crystal!

I liked that part
On a social site, you'd expect to 'sign in with Twitter.' This site is about code, so you 'sign in with GitHub.'
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Why One Geek Parent Hates The UK's Porn Filter Idea
Can't speak about Estonia but in case of Latvia the idea of russian speaking people emigrating because of hostility is just ridiculous.
The biggest risk would be Google shutting down Detroit in a few years, like many of their other products. I'm sure they'd allow the users to migrate their houses out to another city provider with plenty of notice!
If things like Tor were the only way to get porn online, I truly believe that a large portion of the population would bother. (And then the Tor network would collapse under the load)
How's the startup culture in Amsterdam and Berlin?
Obamacare data hub a 'honey pot' for ID thieves, warn critics
Not surprising.

I turned my OUYA on for perhaps 15 minutes a week after I received it. I found the store experience flaky and the title selection poor.

Looking at the website today, the only thing I new addition I might want to try is Chronoblade [0].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEf1dorRG94
You do realize your answer is based on the pointed out problem. Let me put it this way, I am saying, "We should wear better shoes, and you are saying, even you don't like it, you are wearing it right now, and it does a decent job". Yes that is what I am talking about :)

Oh system programming does exist, and I can understand the role of C, what I am saying is, even we have a better alternative to C, people would still stick with C.

There is no economic incentive, you are right but the reason itself mostly economical not technical.
Theoretically yes, but in practice, the current Harper administration is going hard against those PRs who leave Canada after applying for citizenship, using any possible way to deny them, even questioning and trying to reverse decisions made by Citizenship Judges.

Good discussion here: https://secure.immigration.ca/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8848... (see a post by dpenabill toward the end of the page), and the entire thread is good as well.
OOP is most definitely defined by encapsulation of state into objects that have identities. There are many points to deal with messaging, on the other hand, as well as polymorphism, which are all compatible with what OO is from a design perspective. Otherwise, the anthropomorphic properties of the object are no longer sustainable, and it's noun-ness disappears.

The cake pattern has as much to do with encapsulation as it does crosscut composition.
Author here. Good point, i'll repeat these measurements with NFS instead and add that to the blog post.

EDIT: Updated the post, NFS erases most of the difference between VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion. Nice!
>It's not exclusive to the Internet, but it's the diversity and complete freedom on the Internet which permits these echo chambers to form.

> the danger is when an echo chamber is formed and no dissenting voice exists.

Looking at the last two decades, I am willing to bet the freedom and diversity of the Internet is responsible for crushing far more dangerous "echo chambers." I am not sure how making a system less diverse or less free (as in speech) is a good thing. It is through diverse, open and free speech that echo chambers are canceled out. People searching out an "echo chamber" on the internet is no different than finding a church group or political group that exclusively prescribes to your views. History is filled with the negative effects of those social structures as well. The real "echo chamber" is a society that feels they know what is normal, appropriate and decent for everyone. It wasn't long ago that women were diagnosed with "female hysteria" and a bit longer since it was thought that whites and blacks couldn't interbreed.

"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
- John Stuart Mill

>The danger is not to 'previously ordinary people'. The danger is that people with predispositions can be convinced that they are right in their beliefs or feelings.

This goes both ways. Someone predisposed to enjoy sex can be convinced that it is disgusting and wrong and there is something wrong with them. Someone with a predisposition to be open and trusting can be convinced that the whole of humanity is out to rape and murder them.

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?"
- Joseph Henry Jackson

>Not at all, if there existed such a place where people with rape fantasies could go to discuss them together I would support its closure and perhaps even the monitoring of its participants.

You mean a couple's bedroom?
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual005.html#to...

If you have only pure objects, you can still perform open recursion and leverage structural polymorphism (including row variables). Additionally, your objects are just values and, because they aren't mutable, can be held for backtracking.

For instance:

```ocaml
class virtual biggable x = object val x = x method x : int = x method virtual embiggen : biggable end

let o = object (self) inherit biggable 0 method embiggen = {< x = x + 1 >} end

let q f o = object (self) val x = o#x method x = x method embiggen = f {< x = x * 2 >} end

let a = q (q (fun x -> object inherit biggable x#x method embiggen = {< >} end)) o#embiggen

;;
# a#x;;
- : int = 1
# a#embiggen#x;;
- : int = 2
# a#embiggen#embiggen#x;;
- : int = 4
# a#embiggen#embiggen#embiggen#x;;
- : int = 4
```
You can usually ask your uni to produce the relevant paperwork.
I use YQL to do web scraping. It lets me do something like this:

`select * from data.html.cssselect where url="www.yahoo.com" and css="#news a"`

Could you elaborate on the benefits of using Upton instead of this?
Netflix says it will produce original documentaries, stand-up comedy specials
PayPal takes 2,9 to 3,9% plus a base transaction fee[0], so their share of the pie would be at least $928000.

[0] https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees
The video on their indiegogo page is way more useful IMO:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/canary-the-first-smart-hom...
This looks interesting but unless I could set up my own infrastructure so I would have total control of where the video stream goes I would never use one, especially in light of recent events.
I feel kind of bad for them. They really should convert these people with poor reading skills to the $600 price.
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ServiceStack is stuck on .NET 3.5 unfortunately. No taking advantage internally of dynamic or async; especially async. Kinda sucks.
Any idea does this also ship from UK? That's a big difference for Europeans since else we have to pay for the high import taxes (24% here).
It also got a massive update last week so now it's not as useless as before.
How about PetaPoco?
My single biggest aversion to build tools like browserify and r.js is this... how do I package portions of a site into separate files?

Generally I have something like the following...

init.js - in the head, modernizr, css-browser shims etc
jquery.js - before /body
site.js - site-wide functionality
section.js - functionality for a section of the site
page.js - functionality for that specific page

This allows me to cache/reuse common functionality and still have a limited number of http requests for js... how would I accomplish this with requirejs, browserify and the rest?

From what I've seen you can't. Ideally, I'd like to be able to package harmony-style modules.. there's some transpilers for that structure already. It would just be nice to be able to reliably package sections for downlevel reuse without having one huge script per page in a site that is expressly not single page.
This is what I have come realize....you can't legislate culture.
Ugh. "Ice sweats" I call it. It's pretty bad when you've got a scarf wrapped around your face, and your breath condenses into ice that makes the scarf hard with ice.

Then when you go indoors all the ice melts and your scarf turns into a goopy mess.

Oh Ontario winters, how I do not miss thee.
Jobber, is doing fairly well out of edmonton.
I don't know much / anything about ruby package management, but if it's commonplace for ruby packages to change the LOAD_PATH (which I guess is similar to PYTHON_PATH / sys.path in python ?), that is really quite magical (by which I mean, causes unexpected behavior).

What conroy is talking about is creating a static set of dependencies that you check into your own source control, because go doesn't let you specify e.g. github commit hashes to "pin" a package dependency to a certain revision.

So a workaround for that is to (as a one-off) change your GOPATH ($GOPATH/src and $GOPATH/bin is where the standard "go get" / "go install" etc put things) to something temporary, "go get" your dependences (which will fetch them from github or wherever at the HEAD revision). Now run your test suite to make sure everything passes. If it does, great, take the current $GOPATH/src and check the contents of that into your own revision control. Et voila, ghetto-"pin"ning.
I don't understand what you're getting at. It would be trivial for someone close by to match that reference frame, and then what?

And then nothing. :-)

My point is that being able to go FTL relative to distant stars does not allow time travel relative to distant stars, which means that there is no possibility of causality violation.

Being able to go FTL in 2 arbitrary reference frames leads to potential causality violation.
"If she has a boy what do you think the baby's first name will be?"