skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You forgot to mention one of the main criticism to use exceptions for errors: the processor penalty.

Related discussions:

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8805238/run-time-penalty-...

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/299068/how-slow-are-java-...
Does Google-Madison stack-rank like the rest of Google?
No, because the people who administer them know that they're pretty much worthless for establishing guilt/innocence so if they don't get the damaging report they want they'll just throw it out.
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Unless you take the battery out how do you know your phone is ever off. It doesn't just have hardware toggle button probably. So you'd have to take the battery out. Well then isn't it easier to put it in a Faraday cage than mess with the battery.
If anything demonstrates failure of the marketplace, it's that people this stupid have the money to shell out for things like this.
Ooh, ooh, does it also start with "what is the point . . . "?
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If it was based on existing US law then nobody in the US lost out on anything by failure to ratify. The treaty presumably would apply in other other countries that ratify it. Also, the danger is less what it would do now versus how the treaty could be interpreted in the future.

Also, while HSLDA mobilized their members against the treaty they hardly have the political clout to kill a treaty in the Senate. At most they gave a few Senators who were on the fence reason to delay consideration.
Other than adding the fear of famine, I'm not sure how different that is from today.

Fear of disease? Check. Both realistic (as in, the huge fraction with no/minimal health insurance or any dental at all). And unrealistic, like fearmongering politicians (as in, send lots of money to X or we'll all die of some made up thing)

Bouts of warfare, check. Both actual for kids in .mil, and imaginary daydreams of terrorism.

Inferior diet? Check.

The personal hygiene thing, I donno about. I'm not so foul but seems like many people are allergic to soap and water, and others who think smelling like an ashtray is a perfume.
Seriously, no one mentions the lingerie section?

http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2011/10/catalog-15-more-sl...
If you remove the word 'perfectly', you're just saying that a dedicated QA team is cheaper than writing tests.

I doubt that very much.
I'm not too worried about revealing a lot of proprietary information here, as only about ten people in the world can read this code:

and here I thought my friend's quip, "they're only about 500 of us in the world" who can write in the Q programming language (for kx systems, another financial system) was mind-boggling. (Q is also knows for having incredibly terse, nearly unreadable syntax)
Genuinely curious, at what point does taxation become socialism?
Fascinating timelapse of the Bay Bridge extension being built
To me,

> make our own tools

means "hacking on Emacs", and indeed, it is fun.
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Magical Girl animes are pretty famous for emphasizing female personality stories. Madoka Magicka had romance and friendship. Of course, it didn't stop the magical girls from kicking ass once in a while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDYea3qPzSU

Here: Sayaka is struggling with the reality of her situation. She has recently learned that she has her very soul has been ripped out of her. Without her soul, it is harder for Sayaka to feel the pains of conflict, both emotionally and physically. (By the end of the above fight scene, she has learned to regenerate her body, since the absence of her soul negates all pain she feels when her body is attacked).

Her newfound ability to negate the feel of pain also negates her ability to feel intimate with Kyosuke. The implications of Sayaka's realization to "no longer feel any pain" ultimately drain on her psyche... and lead to an interesting situation regarding the romantic relationship between Sayaka and Kyosuke.
>I believe with basic guarantee many people who are unemployed would start working. Social security in many countries mean that it's rational to either work many hours per week or work zero hours per week. Basic income means that every hour worked or dollar earned increases your standard of living, thus creating a higher incentive to work.

I am what in the US you would consider a "strong libertarian" - and I would say, I would be in favor of instituting a basic income if we got rid of the minimum wage.
> The thesis is easy to state -- we're wealthy, therefore there should be a default payout to unproductive people,

A default payout to both unproductive and productive people.
I'm really surprised nobody's mentioned that this is an exercise from K&R (a.k.a. "The C Programming Language"), a must-read for any C programmer!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
"it only shows available cabs"; that indeed would explain the rather small amount of cabs and the difference in the # of cabs after refresh…

nice project btw. reminded me of the traintimes one
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
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> We need a BIG because it's not possible to "live off the land" by your own labor anymore in our society. An income is required for survival.

This brings up an idea I had recently: how about a Basic Land Guarantee instead? You give everyone who asks some piece of fertile land, where they can move and start a farm. If they can't live decently in the big city, they could move to the countryside and support themselves.
It has nothing to do with Bayesian, we're talking logic here. An astrological sign would not fall under logic, but rather the domain of science where it can be demonstrated to have no predictive power. A human can decide to stop lying, a sign can't decide to suddenly have predictive scientific properties.

The village could certainly reason that the boy usually lied. But it is a fallacy to say "this argument is false because he is a liar". He might not be lying this time (indeed, the last time he was not). It would have been wise of them to get someone else to do the wolf watching, however, since they couldn't work with this boy.
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Look out ARM, Intel, here comes MIPS – again
Cartographers have it easy thanks to the wonderful sets on http://colorbrewer2.org/js/ . The scheme looks inspired by them.

I wonder why this map was done with a divergent scheme though. The data has no midpoint, it makes no sense to diverge like that. And when you zoom out it, due to the diverging lightness ramp it highlights the lightest colors which are 1945 to 1975.

It looks gorgeous but the color choice is not perfect for exploring the data.
It was actually an underlying tokenized bytecode (double-byte code?) never intended for human manipulation. Before I joined the group, other programmers had discovered it, reverse engineered it, and began patching it. The attitude required to do that was not uncommon in mainframe shops, where the original IBM assembler or COBOL source code for many crucial production jobs was long lost; patching the object code was accepted practice. That is part of the reason why Y2K was a bugbear for banks; they didn't only recall COBOL programmers out of retirement---in some cases it required patching the binaries.
[citation needed]

Also, "handsomely" is relative: if the quality of life of peasants plummeted due to enclosure until it was far below the QOL for factory workers and enclosure happened because of the industrial revolution, it would be disingenuous to say that the industrial revolution provided a handsome alternative to peasant life.

The freedom of choice can be immensely powerful or worse than useless depending on circumstances -- a distinction often lost on or intentionally glossed over by free-market drum beaters. If I kidnap you and give you the choice between having your throat slit and your chest stabbed, am I not still a murderer once you lie dead on the floor? I'm not enough of a historian to provide an informed opinion on the situation at hand but I've seen this exact same excuse (the poor people chose X so X was actually good for them) used in so many completely inappropriate circumstances that I had to speak up.
Absolutely, I just don't think most can be honest about it.

Also, minor procedural note, Marx wrote mostly about capitalism and analyzing it, and a tiny bit about socialism, but next to nothing on communism... Anyway.
Restarts are perfect! This bothered me greatly when I read Code Complete. It doesn't discuss error handlers (which restarts are a form of) in error handling chapter at all.

I really wish more people knew about this option. Maybe it would even get into mainstream languages.
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> Why wouldn't the equilibrium be Marxist communism?

Communism is all about state ownership of the means of production at every level. Wealth and entrepreneurship are heavily discouraged, if not outright banned. Those who advocate for a BI have nothing against wealth and entrepreneurship, and would probably withdraw their support for it if they believed that it would result in the outcome that you predict. BI isn't about everyone being equal, but rather about establishing a minimum income level.

> If I am producing wealth, but it is not contributing to my quality of life, I have zero incentive or motivation to continue producing wealth.

I think that the ideas that you have about incentives and wealth don't track with reality. Just look to yourself--I would be surprised if you live your entire life as a wealth-maximizing entity. Most people are very complex in their motiviations, and many, many wealthy people continue building wealth because it is a side-effect of something that they love to do, not because they want to make even more money.

Regarding equilibrium:

What makes you think that we aren't already near the price equilibrium that would be reached under a BI system? Ostensibly, at least at first, the only people who would see a gain in income net of taxes under BI would be people who are currently receiving some sort of social welfare payment such as social security, unemployment, or AFDC/TANF, which payments would be eliminated concurrently. If no net cash is injected into the economy, how would it have any effect on prices? In fact, BI could have a stabilizing effect on prices if it reduced the deflationary pressure on consumer goods that accompanies economic downturns.
C preprocessor internals
The entire point is that the government can invest in things that it deems valuable but not necessarily likely to make an immediate profit.

The internet is an excellent example. Nobody would have predicted it would have taken off as it did, and so anyone who wanted to make an "internet" would have difficulty accumulating the capital for it. But since the military was able to build it without worrying about future profits, a large-scale and risky project was able to become a success.

The same is true of any long-term research, or any type of project that is primarily a public good. Most scientific research is not done with the explicit intention of "we want to make X", because what "X" is can't be known until you understand what is possible! But since nobody knows what is possible beforehand, investors aren't willing to invest in most research, because the simple advancement of scientific knowledge is something of public value and not private value.
Kind of like the CSI computers that show every fingerprint and mugshot on the screen as the system searches for a match.
He is talking about ACLs, not RTBH.
Match.jl: pattern matching for Julia using macros
Where do I begin? Great and terrible article. Riddled with victim mentality (bad), but desire to improve story telling of movies with a very narrow focus (somewhat good).

Here's an example of victim mentality, but not from the author's perspective.
- why are the villains in movies often English or German. Discrimination!
- why don't we have Australian heroes in movies? Australian actors are forced to change their accents and nationalities... It's disgusting... It's xenophobic!

Now take those examples with a grain of salt. I don't have a victim mentality that insists on x% of movie heroes being Australian ... It's superficial and mandates others on what they must think.

I remember a gay author who was told to add more straight characters - the one story of his that I heard kept on referring to a straight dog.. When I asked my gay friend about the importance of a "straight" dog, he explained the back story of the mandate... The dark side to political correctness.

Here's where I partially agree with the author. Black Widow and the other "Rambo in slacks" were pathetic characters by Joss Whedon - some of the worst I've ever seen. Arrogant, rude, completely self-absorbed and able to take down 20 "baddies" at the same time with their bare hands. Remember Stallone as Rambo? Well, Joss Whedon thinks that adding slacks makes Rambo a better character... Yeah, right. But rather than see "sexism" and "insistence of 50% female leads", I see "crap writing", "area for improvement" and "lost opportunity". Let the writers decide what gender a character is... But highlight opportunities for thinking out of the box (go Aussie heroes ;)

Having said all of that, I'm a huge fan of Legend of Korra. Korra is a believable heroine who retains her femininity and humility: brilliant writing. Lin Bei Fong: a tough as nails woman that shows compassion and vulnerability. Many writers and directors could learn a think or two from Di Martino and Koneitzko (the Korra writers).

One of my other heroes is JK Rowling. In her Potterverse, she chose to have a balance of 50% male/female characters that were fairly well balanced. It worked very well and did not detract from the story. If anything, it added credibility. It was important (at least to me) that the characters made sense, more than what their gender was.

In summary, the referenced article is a thinly veilled feminist (sexist) piece that dictates too much and is too narrowly focused (aka feminism). I agree that female characters are usually poorly written and I love when I see female characters written well.

Then again, I'd also love to see corporate bankers held accountable, NSA snooping to be reigned in and sexism (from feminists or otherwise) being denounced ... I have my doubts that any of these wishes will come true.
When writing a single-page app you only need a RESTful API on the backend, much like developing for mobile, to sync your models from the client.

Ideally, the models would be shared between client and server without the need for duplicating code. There has been a few steps in that direction in node.js, but it's an ongoing problem that hopefully we'll figure out in the next couple years.
Its interesting that he is sponsored by tNF, but doesn't seem to run their prime Ultra races, UTMF, UTMB... Perhaps he does San Fran?
I don't think you've sufficiently explained how option 2 will progress all the way to communism. It seems to me that option 2 could easily reach a stable endgame that results in a sizeable chunk of the middle class being demoted to BI, but without an unbounded taxation arms race with the rich.
Not sure how much you would be harassed - but, if you were to park in the Presidio along a residential street - there are no time limits or street sweeping restrictions. When I lived there, I had a car parked outside for 6 months without ever having to move it.
There are two kinds of people: those who escape work or are incapable for it, and those who work fairly (but may still be poor).
Former are going to build a lot of bad fences, for $7.25, but business only want latter ones. And if you have Basic Jobs, they would indeed be working for $8.50 in poverty, but if you have Basic Income, those would be working for an equivalent of $7.25 from BI and everything their fence-needing employer can conjure on top of that, which will hopefully give them something around $15/hour, which might let them get out of poverty actually.

Low-end labour supply is poor people. Low-end labour supply is people you pay not enough money for them to escape poverty.

Any effective fight with poverty would involve disrupting the "low-end labour supply" as we know it today.
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The question of the degree to which enclosure was responsible for the supply of factory workers is one people have debated for a century. The idea that it was was as you can imagine very popular with Marxist historians. Which doesn't make it false of course. But it does have the same neatness that drives urban legends, and in a place like HN we should be wary of this.

There were in practice a bunch of forces that drove people to work in factories. The rise of international trade, which depressed agricultural prices in comparatively unproductive Europe, was another huge one.
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The real question is why haven't they written a library in a higher level language.

They have to be smart guys. If they didn't do it then there must be a good reason which is unfortunately ommited. Or they did it and this article is misleading and baity.
Agree 100%, I think most people's brains shut off when they hear the c word. I have another response in this thread to this effect.
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What people seem regularly to forget is that if you are not a US citizen, you have absolutely no right or privilege to enter the US. While the US may decide to extend you the courtesy of allowing you to enter the US, it does so in its sole and absolute discretion, and accordingly it may deny you entry for any or no reason at all. Acting like you have the right or privilege to enter the US as a non-citizen is silly and stupid.
This reminds me of one of the things we work with in our company, Amadeus EDIFACTs. I want to buy the person who initially wrote the parsing for it at our workplace a beer.

Example snippet, with fake data (AIR-BLK791;7A;;232;0750058720;1A1216900;007501\r\nAMD 0750068617;1/1;
\r\nGW759208;1A1216900\r\nNXC1A
4O0ORDT030;0751;XYZC7213P;67502886;XYZC7213P;67502886;XYZC7213P;67502886;XYZC7213P;67502886;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;TA
4O0ORDT\r\nA-LACSA;LR 1330\r\nB-TTP/INV/T3/RT\r\nC-7906/
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We need this for every profession. Seriously, lets just take out all the civilians from a conflict and leave the place to those who willing choose to die for it.

Open all the borders. Revolutionary, radical, but consider the thought before you trash it.
> It makes me wonder why I didn't go into politics...

There's nothing stopping you but yourself, you know.

It's not like West Point or something where you have to start right out of high school.
Air raid on Bari
Why do we still have the same level of poverty as we did 50 years ago? Short answer, we don't. It's just the goalposts that keep moving.
Not sure what's going on with your second example, but that first one looks like an odd consequence of how a cdecl feature is implemented. cdecl doesn't just explain C declarations, it can also create them based on a more verbose pseudo-english language (the same one it spits out in response to being fed an actual C declaration, I believe). "func" is an alias for that language's reserved word "function".
And if you couldn't have afforded something to eat, or didn't have a room, or had to go in the hospital? Would you be proud to not complain about being homeless?