skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't stop reading there, I stopped quoting there. Big difference.

The poster they replied to said "we control the rules of the system in which all this stuff happens" -- this is true. To then respond that we can't bend every single physical law isn't a point, it's so silly I wouldn't have bothered responding to it, hadn't I noticed smsm42 contradicted themselves later in another post.
It's also possible to conjure up a scenario where any given preferred feature would be a marginal improvement over the state of things...
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I wish I had this much confidence in any one language.

I'm productive with Python, but it lacks many useful things and I'm no longer comfortable with the rampant mutation.

I like Haskell and the type system is extremely useful (typeclasses ftw), but I haven't managed to become productive using it.

Scala scares me like C++ does, through sheer size.

Rust is very interesting, but not yet mature enough. I'm not even certain that level of abstraction would generally be the one I want.

Clojure is perhaps the closest (especially with core.typed and ClojureScript), but the dependency on the JVM is unpleasant for me to say the least.
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It's not even close to dying, it's just not focused on faster cores or x86 alone. Now is the time to parallelize everything, over x86/ARM CPUs and/or GPUs.
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On the flip side, though, Seeking Alpha is extremely handy for stock alerts and earnings call transcripts.
if its about $150K a day - let's compare that to other world-wide power wasters:

- Old type base load power stations run with coal or other fossil, nuclear e.a. 24h/day but only contributing energy a few days a month (high estimate). IMHO they are only running because it's such a great business for the large power supplier conglomerates (otherwise they would have long replaced them with more efficient, quick starting solutions) - rough guess 2-3 are wasting comparable electric energy per day and there are 1000+ of those power stations around the globe.

- 100M+ people having their office computer(s) running at least 8h/5days-week but rarely using them or using computers 10-20 times more powerful than their applications are requiring. Alternative approach - using operating systems that require the latest, high powerful computers just to display some glossy windows, but are solely used for text processing e.a. - rough guess 3-5M of those equal to the amount of energy used for BitCoin production.

with these two examples alone you already have at least 400-500 times the energy used for BitCoin production each day just puffing away into hot air and I'm sure there are plenty more examples available.

We are wasting energy (and depleting limited resources) on a very large scale every day and only because it's such a great business today (not calculated at true cost) seemingly nobody needs to care about tomorrow.
worth checking out this discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rvuh0/the_way_...
> ...oh... do you remember Steve Jobs was suggesting all apps for iPhone should be web apps? He was way ahead of his time.

He only suggested that at the time because iOS had no app store. It was one of his cunning moments of misdirection and the sentiment didn't last.

As a developer of both apps and web applications, I still don't think web applications are anywhere near the user responsiveness, capability and ease of development of native. And the supposed advantages of write-once, run-on-all-platforms is a total red herring. The amount of work required to ensure a web application written for, say, iOS works as smoothly on Android has in my experience dwarved that of writing native apps for both platforms.

This could change in future, but at the moment it really feels a long way off.
the post you link to seems quite sensible, I don't see what's the problem with it
Well, that might be because you prefer typed languages, which then leads to Haskell in that case. You can't cherry pick one of the two options I mentioned and then act as if that invalidates the whole thing.

I also said not that Clojure and Haskell were vastly superior in every way, but that they individually represented their language niches better.
Hm, I have an issue with the absolute qualifier "best". Best in what respect?

I'd personally say Python is best.. for general data manipulation. But it's slow.

Go is best.. for network and concurrent programming, but it's rough around the edges and comparably low level.

C is best.. for precise control of the hardware. No hand-holding here. But that's also it's weakness.

C++ is best.. has all the bells and whistles you can think of, and more. More of the later probably.

PHP is best for.. masochists and people used to it. It's also one of the quickest ways to create a web application by completely abstracting the low level stuff away.

C# is best.. for religious people and people who buy into the Microsoft ecosystem. Strong library selection.

Java is best.. for people who are looking for a job. As boring as enterprise is, they have money and look for Java devs.

VBA is best.. if you are on a locked down corporate environment, just because it's almost the only option.

<insert language> is best.. <advantages>, but <constraint>.

So, you want to tell me that Scala has all advantages and none of the disadvantages? I don't buy it..
Blogging is fine, but submission of posts to a news aggregator is opening the door to judgments as to its usefulness, veracity, and/or uniqueness.

If I wrote some random post about how great I thought C was and I've been coding for a couple weeks, I shouldn't expect it to get good reception here. In addition, you add some pretty blatant "donation" crap at the end and its clear the subtext of the article is self-marketing.

tl;dr. Yes I can and will dismiss this story because it isn't unique.
I LOVE the job openings on SpaceX careers page, they are literally looking for rocket scientists :-)

http://www.spacex.com/careers/list
Or 12 year old's who work 60 hours a week in a mine to gather Coltan with a pickaxe in the Congo. http://bloodinthemobile.org
and here I was thinking I was the bitter cynic :)
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I wouldn't wonder why there is only 4%. There are thousands and thousands of languages allover the world.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Every time bitcoin passes a major milestone there seems to be at least 5 posts about how it's a bubble that will burst at any second. It's not looking that way IMO.
That's it, I'm out. I'm dropping node for dart.
Bitcoin might fail but it's not a waste. It's inspired a whole wave of alternate crypto-currencies and gotten the public excited in general for them. And wallet and exchange service and a general ecosystem of services have sprung up that could (and do) support any virtual currency. That's all value that can't be lost at this point.

As far as wasting people's time and effort, my hunch is that most people are devoting their hobby time to this and in the process learned a little bit about economics and computer hardware. That time would have probably been spent on computer gaming or aimless web surfing anyhow.
I don't think there's any contradiction. That one can change some rules to a limited degree doesn't mean we can control the rules, anymore than building a plane means we can control gravity.

smsm42's point is that one can't say "this is how the economy shall work"; that doesn't contradict the possibility of tweaking certain aspects of the current economy.
I'm constantly refactoring my code. Yes, not all of them are solution-wide changes, but it would be a huge drain on productivity to check in my code between each refactor. I need to be able to trust my IDE that it will refactor properly and not destroy my code
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Your argument (or the sense I can make of it) works on the assumption that in the absence of an army any country will be automatically conquered and the money repudiated. That assumption is undermined by the growth of trade, but is not totally unwarranted.

What's backing the Somali shilling? It's not even approved by any governing power in Somalia.
I agree, a similar system is put in place at Quibb, it works quite well.
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There's a paper published by sheerwind, detailing the principles of operation - http://sheerwind.com/wp-content/uploads/sheerwind/2012/10/Al....
There's no mention of any valves, too. But there's a more interesting claim they make: "(...) INVELOX captures the wind kinetic energy
and uses the pressure differentials to increase the kinetic energy
available to a turbine". I wonder how they manage to increase the kinetic energy of air flow without any external energy source.
Flagging for the editorialized title.
Reddit written Backbone and the reddit API.
That's a fact. But there are languages you are more screwed in than others. Even a tiny amount of refactoring in a dynamically typed language makes it easy to break your build, while it's much less risky in a statically typed language. And if your hypothetical team has this codebase without unit tests, we can likely assume that other best practices, such as the notion of separation of concerns, is also considered a waste of time. If you can start refactoring the existing codebase with a more modular design AND be (relatively) confident that you're not breaking your app, you'll make it possible to introduce unit tests.
This was the key theme of only the second episode of the new cop drama Almost Human. I agree with you. However, I think there is a more immediate market in industry, and one that doesn't require nearly as complex robots.
Shouldn't iOS be present in this tree too, as derivative of MacOS?
Almost. The JavaScript bytecode is turned into JVM bytecode which is then turned into CLR bytecode which is then JITted and runs as compiled native code. I think. Did I miss something?
don't worry, i can't do this across /all/ code anymore - some lazy ms monkeys were unkind enough to dump dynamic casts in library headers sometime around 2008.

C-style cast at least doesn't make you pay through the nose in debug time or performance overheads - even if it is easily confusing :)
Do you realize your post sounds like nothing but complaining? Please spare us by clicking delete.
Partially, but at least with strong typed languages, if the thing builds, it might actually run.

With dynamic ones, it is always a guessing game.

Been on this game for quite some years now, the corporate world gives zero value to unit tests, regardless of what gets discussed and presented as success stories on conferences.
True. I tried that last month, it works.
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> This is not the case with standard wind turbines that just rotate only faster.

Standard turbines are not left to rotate in high winds -- if they would be, they would destroy themselves. There's a link to a video of this happening in this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9uRSVun30

Instead, they are feathered and locked in place. That is, the angle of attack of the blades is reduced to zero so that wind hitting them won't make them turn, and then there is a huge brake in the system that keeps them in place.
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Legally, best is a vacuous term, meaning "as good as anything else." So if you say "this is the best tire ever" you can't be sued, at least in an English speaking country (unless they spell it tyre).

Critically, never take a "best" statement at face value since these things can't be measured anyways.
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The way it looks really gives you the feeling like this d'ni engineering. Except this is real! Ok, back to playing Myst
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They paid around $500 million in 2013. With 24 million users, that's $20.883 per user per year.

To check this: According to Spotify, their 24 million users listened to 4.5 billion hours of music in 2013. This gives us 166.667 hours per user per year. If you take an average song length of 3.5 minutes, this results in 2857 plays per year, which, if you assume Spotify's number of $0.006 to $0.0084 (let's take 0.0072 USD) per stream, this results in 20.57 USD per user per year. Wow, very close, it indeed looks like a user generates around $20 per year.

If the entire US population would use Spotify, this results in roughly $6.5 billion per year.

Of course, that's a bit rubbish, let's use the amount of households in the US. Around 120 million. So that's more like $2.5 billion.

If we assume an average household income of $45'000, this would support around 55'000 individual household incomes in the music industry (artists, studios, engineers, right holders and so on).

Of course, since most money flows to the mega stars. It would support much fewer people. So let's take 31'400 people. Why? Because it goes well with the US population figure of 314 million. It's exactly 0.0001% of the US population.

Still thinking about making a living with music?
Amazing site. Bookmarked, and I will go through it properly when I get the chance. As someone who has a poor grounding in many areas of maths in general, but deep understanding of specific areas, this resource seems excellent for catching up.

I did not experience the slow loading times others did. Maybe the slowness was from the site experiencing a HN hit.

Feedback: when I click the Facebook like button, it tries to fit a text box in the area assigned to the button, and simply does not fit.
Except I didn't make this up, I survived a few of such projects.
I have to say, I don't really "X is just a library" arguments. Is it a way to say "language L1 is so much more expressive than language L2"?
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As a fellow Dutch native speaker, let me shed some light on this. Here is how Ben explained stuff:

" To me as a non-native speaker, the difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but hey (...)"

The difference here is not so much in language as in culture. The Dutch language has similar gender distinctions as English. Subtle differences are that:
- Our nouns are male/neutral or female, similar to French 'le' or 'la'
- We cannot make neutral possessive ('its') and are limited to 'his' or 'her'

For the rest it is pretty much like English, including 'him', 'her', 'they' and 'them'. Also Ben should have good knowledge of English as any young and educated dutchman.

The difference is more likely cultural. Americans seem much to be much more easily triggered by signs of potential gender inequality or racism. The Dutch are more tolerant/rude and the humor often flirts with political incorrectness. In short Ben (and I) would not have sensed this as a potential agitator.
I think that's a problem of still using text and the filesystem as our codebase storage format. Databases have transactions, query languages, backup capabilities, and a number of other extraneous features which can be removed or replaced with generally simpler versions (clustering with version control for example). If code is data, why arn't our codebases databases?
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Scala is best.... if you want scalability and modularity, but some parts of the language are complex and take time to learn
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Değerli Müşterimiz…
Isıtma sektöründe hizmet edebilmek üzere, 1997 yılının ilk çeyreğinde imal Ettiğimiz ve ısıtılması zor olan büyük ve geniş hacimler için dizayn edilmiş HALI ALTI ISI Sistemlerinin pazarlama, satış ve satış sonrası hizmetlerini yürütmek amacıyla ayrı bir kimlikle TOZANLI MÜHENDİSLİK bünyesinden doğmuştur.
Kurulduğu günden bu yana, TOZANLI Isı Sistemleri, ülkenin gelişen ihtiyaçlarına cevap vermek için yapılanmıştır.
Kuruluş amacına yönelik olarak konusunda daima lider olmak ve bu konumunu korumak için müşterilerinin ihtiyaçlarını kendi ihtiyacı, sorunlarını kendi sorunu olarak gören TOZANLI ISI Sistemleri, tüm hizmetlerinde profesyonelce mükemmeli aramakta ve müşteri tatmin ve memnuniyetini en üst seviyede tutmaya çalışmaktadır. Bu düşünceyle genel merkezde konusunda uzman kadrosuyla tüm ülke çapına hizmet edebilen bayi ve servis ağıyla ihtiyacı duyulan cihaz, ekipman ve hizmeti müşterinin kullanımına sunmakta ve bunda da oldukça başarılı olmaktadır.
Lütfen ekli sayfalarda sunmakta olduğumuz mal ve hizmetlerimizi inceleyiniz. Bunlardan yararlanmak veya detaylı bilgi almak istediğiniz konularla ilgili bize danışmaktan çekinmeyiniz. Sizlere yardımcı olmaktan memnuniyet duyarız.Karbon ısıtma filmi , parke altı ısıtma , kış bahçesi ısıtma , cami ısıtma , ayna ısıtma , buğu önleme ,Zeminden/tabandan Isıtma, Duvardan Isıtma, Tavandan Isıtma faaliyet konularımızdır.
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Thank you very much. Your script does the trick. I was able to read the blog without enabling JavaScript for that site.
Man, corporate political games in an open source project.

I don't feel like I can possibly have an informed opinion on this, but I certainly feel played for having voiced a less informed opinion on the original discussion.
journalists reporting widespread abuse of anti-terror laws are being charged for terrorist offences. /irony
Jesus. Take a look at this "patch":

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015/files

Ousted the guy because he referred to "user" as a "he" in the comments? Are you fucking kidding me?

I'm all for gender equality, but the amount of drama that came out of this is just insane and disturbing for the hacker community. I can not see it as anything more than pure politics and gender issue as a convenient pretext.

Joyent has lost all credibility for me. And Ben has taken the place of the tech drama queen of the year.
IIRC it is actually a certified Unix.
How do you have an objective measure of "social worthiness"?
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It's not the first time it happens - I remember seeing this problem before in HN.

IIRC from that time, this is a bigger problem when you consider that Kickstarter doesn't have any mechanismo for flagging suspicious backers, so even in the (unlikely, IMHO) case that this is an honest mistake from the backer, it will only increase once 4chan and friends hear about this.
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Hey,
I will try to send work your way. What skills do you have?
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Saw this on the new "financial HN" site, thought it might be interesting here too since it's a technology startup.

http://www.finovate.com/fall13vid/tipranks.html
Yes, this looks interesting. thanks.
Haskell's options for nominal subtyping are incredibly limited; Scala goes much farther (lets not get into O'Haskell). Much of Scala's power is missing from Haskell, or at least, is quite differently directed. As for dynamic typing, Scala is definitely not trying to compete with a dynamic language.
The deal with the Fine Bros. calls for Fullscreen to allot an unspecified fund toward producing new content with an eye on migrating formats off of the YouTube platform.
No. It is exactly the right time. People really need to stop trying to bring scifi to life without considering that most of those scifi books/movies resulted in the extinction of mankind, or something near that.
Almost Human has been on my list of things to watch, I suppose I should move it up a notch. The industrial market will undoubtedly be served first by this (and Google's probably carefully avoiding any hint of what I suggested -- heck, I already got downvoted for merely mentioning the possibility), but I'm pretty sure it will happen. The ethical implications are interesting to say the least. Complexity is interesting, too. Historically, it's always been better to have specialised programming for the domain of use. Industrial/manufacturing purposes would indeed be a nicely delineated area. Once you make androids that have to deal with humans on a human level, pretty much all limits are gone as the entire gamut of human behaviour needs to be dealt with and a portion of it simulated. I suppose a sexbot of some kind is possible without being too complicated, just don't expect it to cook you dinner afterwards. Perhaps too much complexity would actually be detrimental in this case, as no sane person has yet worried about whether their blowup-doll likes them or has a good time. Moral and ethical issues will arise. But that hasn't stopped humanity in the past.
"memcpy should be fast"

you know memcpy is my 'classical' example of why you should never trust library code to be well optimised. its almost always a dumbass byte-by-byte copy - its pretty much the worst case performance unless you go out of your way to slow down your implementation.

the speed improvement from good register usage and appropriate cache hints was >35% the last time i had to do this (iirc against the VS 2008 implementation)

MS provided a special memcpy variant for 360 that did this for you using the PPC dcb* instructions and good use of the wider registers.
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It's called a racket for a reason:

0. Complexity allows bullshit to conceal the capture of additional money. Case in point: Enron.

1. Goldman Sachs is way too fucking connected. How else would the "non"-double jeopardy prosecution of Sergey Aleynikov and S. 3642 be even remotely possible?
Music streaming (be it Spotify or otherwise) is not the only source of revenue for musicians though. Touring, Merch and so forth also generate revenue.

That said, most musicians obviously cannot live off their music.
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7. Type aliases
Is there any other programming language that ever thought of this awesome feature??

Um. To name a few: C has typedef; Go has type; Haskell has newtype.
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Right, and how well do subtyping and implicits get along?

This is the problem, everything and the kitchen sink is tossed into Scala without any consideration for how well things work together because they've let it be a PLT grad students playground.

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1pjjy5/odersky_the_...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg

The Scala community didn't lose one its best core developers for nothing.

I mention Clojure and Haskell in the same breath because FP and immutability are what I care about and Scala fails to be a nice functional language.
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> You can't cherry pick one of the two options I mentioned and then act as if that invalidates the whole thing.

I'd also use Scala over Haskell in a lot of cases and I don't think Clojure necessarily represents FP better. Either way these arguments are still pointless.
Is Scala the true heir for Java? The creator of Java seems to think so
Small suggestion of the bikeshed variety: I think you should strongly consider to make the top bar height the same as the one on HN. I believe there are design reasons for why it is the that specific height - symmetry, contrast, margins, leading your focus etc. That is: if you are not a professional designer and have a good reason to make it otherwise, leave the top bar as it is.
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Why the sudden Scala love/hate on HN?
Not sure what you mean. Isso does not authorize authors, hence an author URL does not necessarily list comments actually posted by author xyz.