skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose demanding more from the compositional process can be considered glum by some; it's not for everyone... There is also the aspect of making a living from creative coding and that path is a bit more circuitous than banging out the next algorave.

I've already commended LC on immediatism aspects and this also includes community development. I question if large audiences have been found.

Technically I'm not against LC or experimental electronic music... I'm against folks elevating the technique as a thing beyond just another basic tool in the toolbox.
Thanks, that's really fun to hear.

ACK on the command substitution not working, with the current lexer that I have in place fixing this isn't easy and might take a while. But it's definitely up there on my todos.

Yeah, long pipelines are somewhat of a problem. You can currently navigate the commands with the buttons at the top, maybe they're not visible enough.

But I like the idea of being able to pin a particular line by pressing it, but I fear it might be a bit subtle and easy to miss.
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We've had a surprising amount of difficulty maintaining this over the years, since FreeBSD's NFSv4 implementation kind of sucked for a while, and it doesn't support mounting a memory partition (tmpfs). But you can trick it by mounting the memory partition using nullfs, and then nfsmount-ing that.

We used that memory-partition-over-network thing for a while, but actually switched to SSD-over-network because it was faster than the memory partition. I spoke with a FreeBSD maintainer about it and he said what we were doing was so unsupported/unoptimized that he wasn't surprised.

We run into weird FreeBSD edge cases pretty often where there are few people, if anyone, who can answer our questions. Sometimes I wish we'd gone with Linux, but after ten years the hassle of switching doesn't seem worth it. Thankfully 9.2-RELEASE has been pretty good to us.
In related research, the Filter Bubble problem itself is exaggerated: http://messymatters.com/bubble
Yes, you mention 'safety issues'. Can you imagine the liability insurance you'd need to have in order to run a business where you have autonomous flying robots with packages suspended from them flying around? Holy crap. There are so many possible points of failure.

Call me a Luddite but I will be perfectly happy to never see this become a reality.
I think that's in the legal context: the US government is bound to the 1st Amendment, which has usually been interpreted broadly to apply to (almost) everything the government does. So when the US government does the censoring, it's often questionably legal. However, private organizations aren't usually bound by the same rules, so there's no law against a private organization doing the same thing.

I suppose we can call it "censoring" in both cases, but usually only one of the cases is an actual violation of the law.
He states that H-M is not used because of the lack of reified generics, which is completely irrelevant. (Hint: type systems perform analysis at compile time; "reified generics" means having type arguments available at run-time.) H-M is not used because it is not compatible with subtyping or method overloading, which are both critical for Java interop. There is no particular reason that Scala needs to use exactly the H-M system.
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WTF C++11 - WTF -

http://cppquiz.org/quiz/question/38

The answer is in the C++ name.
Now, what about the extra DNS lookups? That adds 1x roundtrip time for the user, plus 20-40 bytes of IP header (v4/v6), plus 8 bytes UDP header, plus ~25 bytes for the query and ~100 bytes for the reply.
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Well it's a single kilobyte, but 100 KB in aggregate.

It's almost entirely Google Analytics, unfortunately. Our ads are served from a different domain (4chan-ads.org) for specifically this reason (user privacy and cookie bloat).
It's also too big.
GIL isn't a language feature, it's an implementation feature — in Ruby, at least, this is a significant difference because there a major implementations (Jruby, most notably) without it even though it is a feature of the MRI implementation.
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I do a lot of driving to get around, and Google Now has been a huge help in the very simple things I need my phone to do -- navigation, scheduling, and so forth.
Set a header where (on which request from whom to whom?)
I'm pretty sure that picture was not taken for this article, since the photo credit is to Youtube. So it may very well be a much more recent photo.
> Maybe you should first learn the language?

Is it actually possible? I've been using Scala for over a year and still have to spend more time learning about the language than writing code in it.
Curated:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/07/1214314/-World-s-La...

A remarkable statement from the largest coal company in the world. Coal India produces more than 80 percent of India’s coal, and not only is it turning to solar as an efficient business practice, it understands India cannot power itself by coal.
It doesn't feel the same. Unless one is nearsighted and/or crosseyed, it's easier to focus and converge on a more distant object. It also provides for a lot more desk space in front of the monitor.
The fact that Erik Meijer says that imperative programming is the way to go for the "real world" is deserving of attention, but it doesn't empirically mean "all 'real world' software is better created with the imperative paradigm".

From the sound of it this is his first job in the "real world"? If that's the case, perhaps he just hasn't seen patterns of applying his current functional knowledge in a way thats better than the best practices from the imperative realm.

How do we know after a few years he won't switch (provided he was a fundamentalist functional programmer) back to saying "now that I have a better understanding of 'The real world' I can see patterns applied with the functional paradigm are better than the best practices I've been using from the imperative paradigm."?

I believe this is the reason to keep an ear open for authority figures, but not to take everything they say empirically, especially when it's in contradiction with a position they've held much longer.

Apologies for the rambling, I was just typing out what came to mind.
When Americans use the word 'censorship' they seem to explicitly refer to censorship in the context of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. By the general meaning of the word, of course anyone can censor anyone else but in America it is meant to be "censorship that violates the First Amendment".

I'm not American. It's just the best explanation I can come up with why this view is so common.
Does a tour called "Without Their Permission" really need to be invited?
Wikipedia is a great place to publish your views with little real oversight, as long as you get seniority, make a few external sites to link to, and squat the relevant pages. The best part is that your message can be taken up well because even adults think they can rely on it (no adult relies on Britannica for anything, few own it anyway).

Maybe you were wrong and your father was right.
Good call. I just yanked this comment from an old reddit comment I made on a similar post.
I liked one idea submitted: having the command pin to the top of the screen on scroll down. It would be tricky to make happen with the hover effect for the boxes, though.
That's another thing YSlow and PageSpeed have complained about for ages, but hopefully the local resolver cache mitigates it somewhat.
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> You want to borrow bit coins so that you can improve your business and then pay back the coins with increased profits due to the improvements.

That doesn't really answer the question. Grandparent wasn't asking "Why would you want to borrow BTC?". It was asking, "Why would you want to borrow in a deflationary currency such as BTC rather than a traditional, inflationary currency?"

As others have pointed out, the most obvious practical reason why a borrower might specifically desire a BTC-denominated loan is in order to short sell Bitcoin. For something like a business loan, it seems intuitive that choosing BTC over a traditional currency would accomplish little aside from maximizing the interest rate on your loan (in real terms). Admittedly there may be plenty of unwary buyers who'll happily enter into a loan like that without doing any math first - the entire payday/title loan industry is built on this fact - but an operation relying on that unfortunate fact doesn't jibe too well with the stated goal of behaving more ethically than the existing financial establishment. So hopefully there's something else to it?
We wanted to do this at a news site I worked for (since we had way too many cookies) but the problem was Google news.

On Google news thumbnails would not be shown unless they came from the same domain as the other page.

So our content was on "www.example.com" and pictures were on "media.example.com" but the cookies were for "example.com" so got sent with every image request.
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Because the janitors are absolute garbage. I see more illegal shit on the "worksafe" boards stick around for hours and days on end without going answered by any 4chan staff or volunteers.
If the urls are guessable then someone could harvest images without having been given urls by authorized users.
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It's a way to take the wind of of Google's sails when they announce delivery by self-driving car, which would have seemed futuristic until now.
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The beauty of OpenSCAD never ceases to amaze me .. minkowski as a built-in?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Transforma...

Wow, its just so .. elegant ..
Hi, I love this. I bookmarked it and plan to use this often.

Possible additions:

- Something that users of the service could add commands to and the community could up vote for grading on technical difficulty.

- Also a "shell command of the day" type of mailer service would be amazing :)
True story. Here's an excerpt from the book about just that: http://news.rapgenius.com/Alexis-ohanian-without-their-permi...
"history is rife with inequities" is not going to mean anything to any developing nation.

There are plenty of developing nations with their own histories of conflict. India and Pakistan come to mind. Much of Africa. Much of SE Asia and (take your pick) Japan and/or China (I'm omitting the colonial cases of Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the US here).

So: you're wearing LDC blinders. And my broader point is we need to get over this. Not ignore it, but get over it.
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I agree it's a little counter-intuitive. But if it's top to bottom then all the lines would cross each other which would ruin the UI. If there's a way to make it top to bottom while keeping the UI useful, I'd love to hear!
Maybe not Alexis, but YC might want the invitation to come and do their Office Hours @ the event if they are interested.
And we're still a long, long way off from the "information superhighway" dream of the 90s. Wikipedia is good, but it barely scratches the surface of any area of knowledge.

There's nothing technically stopping that (except for copyright), but the fact remains that it hasn't really happened yet.
Can't agree more.

I think they should all be held accountable, no doubt, and I don't think that was lost in the discussion here on HN, thankfully.

I personally find it more contemptible the more power those involved have. This chemist likely felt pressure from her higher-ups. No excuse for her, but disgusting of them to exert their power in that manner.

I hadn't thought much about your last sentence before, but it's very valid. It's a lottery because you're not always caught (and then in some cases, white-collar-crime, you're likely to get a slap on the wrist). I imagine that most criminals are dumb enough to convince themselves they won't be caught, making their odds to "win" seem even higher.

I think crime & punishment is such a complex problem, and our current system is barely passable, and has incredible room for improvement. I just don't want to be the answers guy, because I don't know how to improve it, and the risks are high.
His biggest mistake is failing to understand that nothing is stationary, especially technology. One must draw a distinction between the limitations of technology in the moment and their fundamental limitations. Within only 5 years after the author's rant against the internet much had changed. The number of people online grew by a factor of over 20. Computers became much faster, broadband internet access became much more widespread, and the internet in general became much more sophisticated.

By 10 years after his statements the internet was a much different and almost completely unrecognizable place than the internet he was familiar with. The same is probably true for the internet 10 years from now. It makes you wonder how many "never"s, "can't"s, and "won't"s are bandied about today among the cognoscenti about the possibilities of the internet which will be outrun by the pace of innovation and change over the next decade.
"In all three cases, note that the economic activity involves something that is either outright illegal or in a legal gray area"

I stopped reading right there. This is nothing more than just another article by somebody who doesn't understand bitcoin and couldn't be bothered to do even basic research. There's over 20,000 LEGAL retail merchants already accepting bitcoin, and this is just the beginning.

TL;DR: Troll article, author doesn't have a clue about bitcoin.
Wikipedia says "Intel 64" is the new official name, but yeah, IA-64 looks wrong. Sorry. IA-64 feels like it should be the 64-bit-ified IA-32, but no...

Hard problems in CS: Naming things.
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Some of these questions cover really really dark corner cases, no practical usage unless you are writing a C++ compiler.
I see this becoming a trend now, where long lines are used to make it easier to do diffs. I'm on the fence about this since there are pros and cons.
Places that accept bitcoins: https://www.spendbitcoins.com/places/

And not just listing web sites, but physical locations too.

For a map of physical store that accept bitcoins, http://coinmap.org/ is a great site.
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What is a farm?
I also wish 4chan would switch to open source, self-hosted CAPTCHA and analytics solutions. CAPTCHA especially, because while analytics scripts, tracking images, etc. can easily be blocked, you cannot participate on the site without allowing ReCAPTCHA to constantly phone home to Google.
Rules for fully autonomous commercial flight might not (and should not) changed the rules for hobbyist, noncommercial flight.

Manually but remotely piloted aircraft (RC planes) are still a huge hobby and the FAA does not currently care how automated the flight is, only that it is noncommercial and that you can see the aircraft from the controls. It's doubtful that the FAA would amend these rules rather than create a separate category for unattended commercial flight.
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and yet it accurately states facts in a majority (if not all) matters I've looked up in recent years.
I would consider the implicit reason why a vendor might accept bitcoin. Accepting bitcoin is akin to free advertising for ones' company since bitcoin has so much buzz.

The business-logic-related reasons for accepting bitcoin are far and few considering how volatile it is and the non-instant transaction verification delay.
I'm not sure what lambasting this guy for being wrong adds to discussion.

Really, I want to see a sensible critique of the final paragraph. It is the most interesting one. I see the Internet as fostering community, but never replacing it. Most social sites today are atrocious, quality-wise, and suffer the exact same symptoms he ran into.
Yes, I had this suggested on numerous occasions and gave it a go a while ago and it's indeed not trivial.

If a JS wiz would like to hack on this I'll gladly help and accept it.
sudo defaults write \
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist \
DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool true

... and then reboot. I run my main screen (a 27" iMac) at native and my secondary (a 27" Thunderbolt display) at ¼ res HiDPI. It's a good compromise.
I have shopped there. My father currently works at a Walmart in his vicinity. I also grew up in a "rural poor area." I shop at my local discount grocer rather than Whole Foods.

Is it ok for me to criticise now?
Thanks for the offer, I can't find your email in your profile.
Ask HN: How are you authenticating rest service clients
I've been playing with asp.net webapi and basic auth header (with user:pass in base 64).

If you have a angular or knockout front end, are you storing the login details in a cookie and passing in the header, or via a token? Where are you storing that token?

I am new to this sort of api / javascript front end and want to deal with security according to best practice.

What do you recommend?
Actually 78.75% of our users are on Chrome/Firefox!

SSL is forced on our domain you post to (sys.4chan.org) with redirects and HSTS, and we set cookies with proper Secure and HTTP-Only flags. Maybe some day we'll force SSL site-wide, but I don't think that's the right decision for now.

I definitely encourage people use the EFF's wonderful HTTPS Everywhere extension though: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
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I don't agree that 60 Mins loses its credibility. Some of my friends and family didn't believe me until I told them it was 60 Mins. Then they believed. If that isn't credibility, I don't know what is.
Yeah, politics could definitely use a lot more of "sanity checking" and "unit testing" ;)

But in all seriousness, it's shocking how many people turn a blind eye to inconvenient contradictions/conflicts.
http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates
Skipping out?

Georgia Tech

University of Georgia

University of Florida

University of Central Florida

UNC

Duke

Wake Forest

Vanderbilt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_United_States

Did I miss some?

I know we aren't hitting them all, but we are going to 77 schools (150+ stops) over 5 months, which is already unprecedented for a book tour. I wish we could go everywhere folks have asked, but there's only so much time I can take my team away from their lives and loved ones.
What do you work in? I'm not looking to judge, just curious, as I've been having similar thoughts lately.
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Ugh, don't read to much into the comments here. HN is full of whiners... or maybe I'm just getting old and the young crowd seems to whine a lot.
I've been using his http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ to read HN on my phone for a while (is it years yet?) now. I try others as they appear and so far continually go back to his.
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You mean brain plasticity? Because it is one of the only things that the brain starts with. Among very few others are vital reflexes and, examples from a little higher level, fears like fear of snakes and fear of spiders. Skills like logic, pattern matching, analogy building and others are acquired while observing world for many years before they can be used for tasks.
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What? I had a packed house at Georgia Tech:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.607940125907956.10...

Are you not seeing the full schedule?
http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates
> V8 does this for some pretty obvious reasons, you wouldn't really want to allow threading at the JS level in a browser, now would you.

I'd really like to have Erlang-style actors at the JS level in a browser, which is predicated on having threads.
I'm holding up 27" monitors with this cheap little thing: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10828&cs_id=...

Plenty of free desk space!

(Also, in the pro-sub-30" argument: it's difficult finding affordable movable arms and mounts for 30"+ monitors)
What do we who are closer to tech than the average person see in the same light now that people in our role saw the web in the early 90's?

My 5c goes to Bitmessage, the web (still. Biggest distributed computing platform ever), Bitcoin, drones and 3D-printers. Preferably them all combined.

It's not like technical revolutions are uncommon anymore.
Ain't nobody got time for page 1.
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Saving 3+% in credit card fees is good for buyers and sellers alike. There's always the option to pay 1-2% for voluntary escrow for eBay/Craigslist/etc, but for purchases from reputable companies (Amazon), it would be unnecessary.

There are other advantages to crypto-coins, but that one alone is non-trivial. I don't expect that fiat currency is going away, but if the price and perception of BitCoins becomes stable enough (a big if), we'll see more and more trade, probably with BTC discounts to account for its deflationary nature.
UPS also charges, but IIRC it's less if you have an account with them. Pickup is free with USPS.
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I think you are overlooking the same thing the author did in 1995. It just hasn't happened yet. There are also somethings where I expect a healthy equilibrium to be reached between online and physical.
Lulu for guys, can you see that?
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Events are scheduled at every stop: http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates
You gave up too early. How about the question that tests your knowledge of std::async behavior, in a way that has very real practical results? (very real in that if you don't understand the behavior, you're almost certainly using std::async incorrectly and with no benefit to your code).

Or the one that makes sure you understand that, if a function isn't declared virtual, then you get static dispatch instead.

Or, heck, the one that ensures you know that floating-point literals default to double, and that this fact affects function overload resolution.
> Insertion into the book is then largely O(1) as few people bid/offers are exactly the same price.

This is very much not true in my experience. Automated trades of any sort often hit the same prices, and trading strategies such as Iceberg which put many, many small orders will nearly always overrun with existing orders.

Which markets were you building this order book for?
That's what interests me about 4chan's story... How you do that is amazing.