skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> optional static typing

https://github.com/clojure/core.typed

> multimethods

http://clojure.org/multimethods - also, arguably better for many use cases: http://clojure.org/protocols

> native and efficient executables

Clojure performs much better than popular web development language implementations like Python, Ruby or Node.js. See http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ People have found it performant on harder problems: http://clojurefun.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/achieving-awesome... And it's possible to produce executables that depend only on the JVM, which is just as easy as fully-native for deployment.

I grant you the one about the Common Lisp condition system. I wasn't familiar, but reading about it (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommonLispConditionSystem), it does look intriguing. Apparently something inspired by it is available as a Clojure library, but the last commit was 10 months ago, and I hadn't heard of it till now: https://github.com/scgilardi/slingshot
It usually varies by state law. Here's some good information: http://www.photoattorney.com/2009/07/q-statute-of-limitation...

"Because copyrights are governed by federal law, there is only one statute of limitations for copyright claims. Copyright infringement claims are rights of the copyright owner of the photograph and have a three-year statute of limitations from the date of the infringement. See 17 USC 507(b). Some courts start counting the three years when you had a reasonable chance to discover the infringement."
I think most of this is smoker hate. In an office or on an airplane, vaping could be inappropriate because of the tight shared spaces. Otherwise, let these people be.
The amount of advertising that goes on here at HN is getting a bit excessive lately.
CA Technologies agrees to pay $11 million to settle billing fraud lawsuit
I've had only limited "2nd-hand-ecig" experience, but I didn't really notice anything at all from across the table, nothing particularly offensive in any case. Certainly wasn't anything like a person smoking!
And the Web SQL initiative failed, for just this reason; SQL itself does not define enough to write portable SQL, so they just had to say "well, SQL as implemented by SQLite as of this particular version", and that was pretty much a non-starter. Web SQL had even got a little more buy in from multiple vendors (Safari, Chrome, and Opera), but due to the problems with it Mozilla and Microsoft refused to implement it.

The same is likely to happen to PNaCL. It will probably survive for a while in Chrome, as it may be useful for writing ChomeOS specific apps, but it will never be adopted by any of the other browser vendors. ASM.js runs just fine in other browsers, the only difference is that they don't implement the stricter subset and same optimizations as Firefox does, so it's a lot more likely to catch on, as people can write cross-platform ASM.js right now.
It's not smoking.
Wait, what exactly would you need? I've been working for about a year now on an application which determines optimal (i.e. profit/revenue maximizing) advertising keyword bid values. It's nearly finished now! Is that something you could make use of?
Hey, email me - address is in my profile.
Coinbase.com is a YC company that's trustworthy and convenient if you have a US bank account
Non-PHP CMS for the win
> Unless there's any indication that Soylent will do irreparable damage from day 1, I see no good reason for an individual not to try it and monitor their progress.

You are demonstrating a very basic failure to analyze risk, understand the variety of medical risks that can be posed by experimental diets, and indeed understand the concerns that other people are raising (the concern is not that you will die after drinking it three times in a row.....).
If you want to improve medical education and work with doctors and contemporary web applications; there is a crack in the door with the USC-SOM as a graphics artists right now.
a platform neutral compiler target
> I'd also be happy if the browser vendors came up with a new bytecode from scratch as well, designed for the web.

I would actually really like this, if defined as an isomorphism to asm.js. (asm.js core operations are pretty simple, it's only the JavaScript syntax that is funny.) Anyone can do it. Write a compiler in JS that compiles this WebBytecode to asm.js (and PNaCl if you want, though I'm not sure if you can dynamically generate PNaCl at runtime from JS) and evals it. You could then ship apps with this bytecode today and have them work in all browsers, and it would be, effectively, completely standards-based since the asm.js semantics would be normative and the asm.js semantics are defined by the ES6 draft spec. You'd be able to ship a clean bytecode representation, unsaddled with the legacy baggage of JavaScript or LLVM, and cross-browser compatibility with what could be, if implemented properly, a tiny stub loader.

The biggest hurdle to getting it working in PNaCl would be wrapping the Web APIs in the Pepper APIs as an "inverse pepper.js", but that should be done anyway as any app that wants to target the standards-based Web APIs and the Google-specific, nonstandard Pepper APIs will want this.
Speaking as a Futile fan -- Unity 4.3 includes a whole suite of 2D classes and tools. No need for Futile anymore unless you prefer the way it works.
Windows Phone, Android Gain Market Share While Apple Slips
http://rollingjubilee.org/
As has already been stated by other commentors, the USDA has frequently been shown to have many conflicts of interests (ranging from their own stated goals to the appointment of many industry insiders -- much like the military industrial complex revolving doors).

> Though being a free country, whether or not the private sector decides to put corn syrup in everything is their own prerogative and unrelated to government guidelines.

Through subsidization of crops (namely corn), the government has created an economic environment where it is not always feasible to create a competitive product that doesn't use certain ingredients. Through the government's vilification of fat, they have created a marketing environment where it is hard to sell high-fat low-sugar foods. If HFCS is significantly cheaper than other ingredients, and if you are pressured to provide foods with low fat, then by using alternative ingredients you could price yourself out of the mainstream. Note: this does not mean you can't make the product, it just means that it will be more expensive and you have to explain to your customer WHY its more expensive. We of course see this in the more expensive "niche" health products. The sad result of this is often the more affluent members of society who can afford such niche products get healthier alternatives, while the poor of society get the unhealthy foods, through a combination of lack of education and lack of funds.
Sometimes you have to let kids shoot themselves in the foot. It teaches character.
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Internal change can solve most every problem, because most every problem is a reflection of an internal conflict.

It sounds far fetched, but when you boil people's problems down to what they really are, you'll see the traditional western way of fixing things tends to invent a technical solution to make up for where the previous one failed.

For example, factory-made pesticides that cause hyper-evolution in weeds that try to resist. A newer more powerful pesticide can't fix the problem created by the old pesticide.
To clarify, by balanced I mean that the difficulty is just hard enough for me to not be able to beat the game, yet subsequent play throughs are still extremely fun. I will eventually beat this game, but it will take some time.

I consistently get to the end game battle, no matter what luck I have in random events. I could have won my last few end battles if I had just played things slightly differently.

Nothing is perfect, some things are just more perfect than others ;-)
Not to defend auto-play, but I can't imagine life where flash is not click-to-play. Which also handily solves most auto-playing problems in one go as well. HTML5 will make this more difficult of course...
Fact is that Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt and others also screwed people, and in some cases, probably more than Gates. None of them has done remotely as much to make up for it.

Indeed, while you are getting your panties in a twist about things you think happened in the 1990s, Gates has saved millions of lives.

Have you considered worrying less about a few capitalists being "ruined" (while living in the world's richest society and consuming a huge proportion of the world's resources) and worrying more about the millions suffering from war, starvation, disease and various other afflictions?
Google Throat Tattoo Patent
PapayaMobile offers Android developers route to Asia with Gateway to China..
> While others are correct to point out that such a law would create perverse incentives

I'm not seeing it, and nor would anyone else who relies on good credit to, e.g. buy a car anywhere other than one of those weekly payment or your car won't start places.
See superdrol (anabolic steroid with high liver toxicity)
and Craze (meth analog)
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You go ahead and eat your fake food.

I'll continue working very hard but still have time for my family, and I also eat real food.

Heck, I can cook a whole pizza from scratch in 30 minutes, dough included. Now that's a hack that's centuries old I'm guessing. No, I'm not putting it on Kickstarter :-)
Of course we're competing. That's the whole point of a merit-based bonus system. What's your counterargument?
Depression may accelerate the aging process of our cells study finds
To disagree with one of the smaller points in the article: Uniqlo's website is not a great counterpoint to the trend of bad/outdated web design. I like their clothing, but their website (although modern looking) is one of the worst user experiences out there.

Search is an afterthought, and if you want to get to something at the bottom of a category page, have fun wading through several dynamic sub-category load times.
Bitcoin was supposed to help fix problems like PayPal holding payments. This seems to make bitcoin vulnerable to it.
Wow. Exactly the right response. I would never have paid any attention to Soylent's agreement with a large HACCP-certified manufacturer before, but Vice's story actually made that relevant to me. They might actually pick up customers from this shitstorm.

Argh! But, well played.
Though as SPJ described in "Wearing The Hair Shirt", non-strictness might be necessary to motivate language designers to sufficiently restrict side effects...
> It's literally harmless to the people around you.

They're not sucking down plain water vapor are they? E-cigs have nicotine cartridges for them, it would be silly to believe that the smokers lungs are grabbing all of that nicotine out before they exhale.

Which is, of course, what this whole thing is about.
Many people are unaware that they may have Diabetes
If all goes well, I see Personable as being a hosted API provider for those who don't want to bother with hosting it themselves, with the source code otherwise available for those who don't mind, or don't want to relinquish control -- similar to how Wordpress operates currently.

There's no inherent reason you can't profit from an open source service, especially if you're able to provide value to those willing to pay for the convenience of not having to run the service themselves, and/or those unable to.

Good luck either way. Closed source may not be the death knell you expect.
I can't STAND smoke from cigarettes, cigars, etc. But the vapor from these e-cigarettes? Doesn't bother me at all. It doesn't smell bad, and I'm given to understand it's mostly harmless.
Does Soylent not contribute to those same problems?
http://www.idealist.org/ is the classic outlet for nonprofity jobs. I've found all nonprofit tech jobs to be incredibly unchallenging though, so if you are motivated by hard problems and engineering challenges then you've got some serious job hunting ahead of you.
Have you ever looked into getting any testing done with regards to your sense of taste? It would be interesting to see if this is an issue for you.
Samasource.org
Mac OS X's main language is Objective-C because it is essentially NeXTStep 5.0 and the basic libraries were mature Objective-C libraries. I don't see how Dylan would have entered the picture.
I never said that ;)
Hacking and pairing at Pivotal
I will agree with this once I see a study showing consuming nothing but soylent has no effect on a person's happiness or mental well-being.

Dehumanization is worse than diabetes.
"e-cigarettes still emit a smelly"

Not to be overly crude, but so does my ass after I eat to much mexican food. So do my burps, after shotgunning a bunch of vodka-redbulls. As for visual byproduct.. would it be better if it were invisible? My behavior after too many vodka-redbulls is far more of a public nuisance, yet they still let me drink those indoors (actually, I am not allow to drink them outdoors. Weird.)

Anyway, I have a few friends who use e-cigs. Can't say I notice it. My hypothesis here is that people primarily get bent out of shape over e-cigs because they feel that the users are "cheating", and nobody likes a cheater. That or they forget what somebody actually smoking is like.
Just wanted to add a note that you can come up with whatever deterministic process you want to generate the keypair.

For example SHA256(MySuperSlowAwesomeLongHash("fire pickle shipment lachrymose deity unwitting pernicious obstacle kitchen tumbleweed mannequin erudite"))
I feel what you write is all correct. I would never worry about this influence of money, though. The thing is, if you take off the fluffy pink glasses, which hurts and takes a long time going step by step, you'll see that open source is about money since pretty much forever. Yes there are a lot of people doing some effort for free. But they are not the major influence. Major influence means Linux, Mozilla, Canonical, hack even things like GitHub etc. It simply wouldn't work in this dimension without money. Thus even though all your points are correct and already happening out there, there is still a booming open source world and there are still people having fun.
This is interesting in the context of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712717 "Why are Amazon, Facebook and Yahoo copying Microsoft's stack ranking system?" - the feature copying usually goes the other way.
My main point was simply that I find it strange that people criticize Soylent for a problem that in my mind already exists in a worse form. I myself am a "real food" advocate -- I just think its silly to think that Soylent will bring about the "food dystopia", and if it does, it will be no worse than our current food dystopia.
That was Union Square Ventures, in NY.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html
I've actually seen one person move after a 5. A poor data set, admittedly. It does happen, though.
Elon Musk: If I started a new company, it would...
Cord cutting really is a thing. Great
If it doesn't hurt me it doesn't bother me. Lots of things people do in public are annoying. No reason to ban vaping just because it looks like smoking. Live and let live.
"Language Barrier [...] Many of the Japanese coders I've met have put in the effort to learn English."

If they have to put in an effort, there _is_ a barrier. Compare that with parts of Europe, where the first words kids learn to read are "OK", "Cancel", "Yes", "No", and "Level". And that's only a slight exaggeration. That's a barrier, too, but a lower one.
The vapor also contains Propylene Glycol, the active ingredient in Febreze.
I'm not seeing it, and nor would anyone else who relies on good credit ...

So, anyone who disagrees with you fails to see the value of good credit?

The problem with your argument is that we're talking about people who've already harmed their own credit, probably for reasons out of their control. It turns out that people screw up their credit for all sorts of reasons, even though they presumably understand that it's harmful.
A few of these differences are subtle or largely not drastic.

Terse main function -> why a main function in the first place?

The VM excluding the compilation into bytecode is a runtime difference, not a purely language one.

Pure OO is a natural consequence of having an optional typing system, thus removing the necessity for primitive data types.

Multiple classes, no mandatory class requirement, multiple inheritance and operator overloading are all fine. These are improvements to the Java model, allowing for more power.

String interpolation is fine, it removes the need for the bloated String.format() method or inelegant string concatenations in Java.

I never said that Dart was a complete Java clone, however. I implied that its design was largely motivated by a philosophy to apply a Java-esque model for the web. Of course they've made some improvements, but I don't find it that great in general.

I think the web would benefit from a client-side scripting language based on Dylan. The semantics of Lisp with the syntax of ALGOL. Since the web is becoming largely data-driven, having code as data would be a big advantage, while still retaining a familiar syntax.
Navigating the TLS landscape
> The risk here is minimal.

How do you know that?
It seems Atwood was right. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...
People are split because the smoking thing long ago transitioned from reasonable public health measures to a moral panic. The evidence for damage from second hand cigarette smoke in unconfined places is nonexistent, yet we have laws pushing smokers further out into parking lots and "smoke free" college campuses.

My prediction is if the FDA finds there's no increased risk for anything bad from eCigs there will still be a sizable percentage of the population that wants to ban them.
What $105M Can Buy: Pivotal Launches Cloud-Hopping Platform For Enterprise
Ask HN: Backing up online services?
I'd like to backup my Asana to my Evernote.

I know that IFTTT and Zapier have things where I can create a new Evernote note if I create a new task on Asana and stuff like that, but is there anything that does specifically backups of online services and keeps them synced?
Ah, you're right, got the two confused
4 drives (Carl Jung) -> 4 constraints (Lawrence Lessig)

bond -> social norms,
acquire -> market forces,
protect -> legal rules,
understand -> architecture.
I imagine that when you're considering a career move, it can be helpful to hear the perspective of the people looking to hire you, so I'll venture an answering as the Executive Director of a nonprofit. We use Tech as tool #1 to serve our mission and are always looking for devs, ux designers, etc. There's no natural place I would "obviously" go to find devs who are interested in social causes. The talent market lives mostly in word of mouth, although we do post periodically in craigslist or on the job sites like linkedin and monster. In general, we do go to hackathons, socially-oriented accelerators and incubators (such as CivicX, code for america, or even the hub), and we post job listings at the universities. It's not a very robust set of cause-specific work. At the same time, we're in a race for talent just like everyone else, so when we're looking for people who can truly accelerate our impact, we try to poach talent. The pitch goes something like this: "You're obviously doing awesome stuff at company X. Why don't you put your considerable talent to better use and help us change the world for real?"

If I can make a suggestion, if you can get a sense for what cause(s) you care about most (education? health delivery? poverty alleviation? something else?) and start to explore the organizations serving those causes, you'll certainly find your way to a job posting here or there for an organization that truly excites you. And excitement is what makes a good match when you're doing work that makes the world a better place. Good luck.

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Wintel just refers to the instruction set, not the actual processor. The reason for using it in this case is that since ActiveX are compiled for x86, they won't run on other platforms that Windows runs on. In the past, Windows NT ran on PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, and Itanium platforms; now Windows runs on ARM in the form of Windows Phone and Surface. So it's not just IE on Windows that is relevant for ActiveX, it's IE on Windows on x86. But that's a mouthful to say, so people abbreviate it to "Wintel".
As I stated in another comment, I am also a "real food" advocate. Nowhere have I stated that I think we should replace everyones meals with soylent. I simply made the assertion (which I continue to believe is correct), that doing so would probably be a net positive for many people in this country. In other words, the main thing I'm wanting to argue is that if you are "afraid" of soylent's potential effects, then you should already be equally afraid given this country's current average diet.
"However, the normative default ought to be that a comfortable retirement can come out of a direct distribution system financed by taxes."

There's two problems with this idea.

First, you can only get returns for this direct distribution if wages increase or population increases. If I expect my retirement savings to grow by X% in order to finance my retirement and everyone is always paying the same percentage of their wages into the retirement account my retirement is only feasible if there are more workers that pay the same fixed percent or if the wages of the workers increase. Neither are a guarantee.

Second, if my savings (or capital) are not being allocated in the market to efficient uses (through picking stocks or funds that I think will grow) then the market loses some of its predictive power. This process is partially responsible for what enables good companies to grow and bad companies to fail. In effect, we trust the managers at the big mutual funds to allocate our capital to the good companies (and sovereign debt) and away from the bad companies (and bad sovereign debt).

The second point just goes full circle as to why Mutual Funds are required to hold investment grade products rated by the big Credit Rating Agencies.

One related point as to why the incentives of the big credit ratings agencies are the way they are. Clearly, if the investor, and not the issuer, was the one paying the rating agency then the rating agency would have an incentive to give the best possible ratings. Its a matter of only releasing your ratings information to investors that have paid for it. This is currently impossible because there are millions of investors and only a handful of issuers. How are you suppose to stop investors that already know the rating from giving it to other investors who have not paid.

Perhaps one possible solution is to have the investor be able select a ratings agency to use along with a fund when allocating savings. In this scenario you know that a percentage of your savings are going to be used to pay a ratings agency for their information, but the investor got a chance to chose who that ratings agency is possibly decreasing the revenue of the bad agencies and increasing revenue of the trusted agencies.

In my opinion the solution is almost always more consumer choice.
The code is open source, but last I heard there isn't a spec for PNaCl/PPAPI.
Most places will give you a discount just for asking. It's totally normal. Just make as many calls as you have bills. Worst case scenario, you'll get a payment plan.