skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if it was your intention to imply so, but neither Clojure nor Haskell* eschew side effects. However Haskell provides tools to manage side effects. I'm not sure about Clojure since I haven't dove into that pool yet.

* I mention Haskell since there is a lot of FUD going around about Haskellers not using side effects.
I can't help you with the specifics, but I do have a suggestion: look into how people learned how to read pre-mass literacy via the school system. Before 19XX, a sizable portion of people learning to read were adults. You might be able to glean some ideas from their experiences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
What gave PHP its boost was a pervasive mod_php, and an instant change-file/see-change cycle.

mod_buildpack?
How the implementation compares to SBCL?
"Got Your Back" https://code.google.com/p/got-your-back/ is a pretty awesome python script that downloads/backs-up all your gmail to your hard drive. I've used it to backup 6 years of work email before leaving the job - then created a new gmail account and used GYB to push all those emails back onto an archive account (for easy indexing just in case I ever need to reference an old email).
Two, well, issues from my experience with gitit (great software by the way): compilation may take huge amounts of RAM compared to what the webapp itself will later use -- it is likely that one will need to use some other, metal machine for building. Also, Haskell is doing idle garbage collection which eats CPU even when nothing is happening, and this may become a less or more painful surprise. It can be turned off, though.
What do you wish you knew before graduating from college?
People don't sit around on their bums for too long - it's just not in our nature. If they weren't slaving away in factories they might end up as a society that primarily produces cultural capital (huge social stability there) or they might develop a service-based economy. In the wider scheme, Chinese manufacturing is probably more important to the west than China.
.ppt? Really? Is this not available in any other format?
I think the problem with real creativity is that it is difficult to measure. And schools are all about measuring.

With regards to creativity, I think the infamous assertion about how to distinguish pornography applies: "I know it when I see it."

The problem is, you can't standardize on subjective measurements.
It isn't satire.
Ironic, what with claiming to be "modern".
woh woh woh hold on....20k to give birth? I am amazed the US is still breeding.
You can set passwords for guest/root, so I think they might run mkisofs on the fly as you download. I'm sure they could cache the ISOs for more popular options without passwords though.
Ability to be successful while functioning like this is wholly dependent on your role and the culture of the company you're working for or leading.
The norm is 36%, if you earn a lot you'll get taxed more. But your income never has a say in you wanting to have a child or not.
Linq queries in Javascript
"What else was taking up his time?"

Critical listening to others, building and being part of a community of practice, developing and challenging research students. Possibly informal communication, although I'm not sure of that. Teaching.

Basically dialogue rather than written papers.

Downvoters: please specify your knowledge and experience in academic research. I know what mine is.
Perhaps showcase and documents section may answer some of your questions?
Not true. You forgot the submerged part.
First day of freshmen programming class our professor made everybody go on this site when students came in late... One kid literally walked in, turned around, walked out and dropped the class.
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And people in America stating that healthcare is not free is a rant-trigger for me.

Everyone here knows that it's not "free" but subsidised by taxes. That's what "free" means when talking about healthcare, free at the point of service, and free as equally available to everyone.

How else would it work? Are the doctors without pay and with no equipment?
Poetry, art is our only umbrella in the shitstorm that we call life, how can you say it is a pointless distraction?
Should you still own a Facebook brand page?
Pope Francis has revealed he once worked as a nightclub bouncer
Oh please, don't get me started on this.

Bash is much more powerful than it's usually thought of (I wrote a decent chunk of bash code, there are middle-sized projects like DKMS written in bash, etc), but still it's a language for a narrow niche (file-management and gluing other tools) with a lot of limitations:

- very weak data structures support: no trees, no decent maps (`declare -A` seems to be searched in linear time), no arrays-in-arrays;

- no typing at all, everything is a string;

- it does not have a complete standard, very much behavior is implementation-specific;

- heavy dependence on external tools (they're like libraries in modern languages);

- stunning amount of pitfalls in syntax and corner cases, escaping hell (e.g.: `scp host:"File\\ name\\ with\\ spaces" .`).

Although I have to say that multiple jobs orchestration is amazing for a language from 70ths.
Air Traffic Control Problem Delays UK Flights
HDI Projections
2010: Japan is 8th in the world
2015: Japan is now 5-7th in the world
2025: Japan is now 2nd in the world
2030: Japan is now 1st in the world

Shut up you cunts.
Cool. Does Haskell have a great web development tutorial out there that could use this?
ACA is a step towards single payer, which enables capitation model, vs fee for service. Meaning paying to keep people healthy vs profiting from disease. It's all about the incentives.

Medicare is already transitioning to capitation.

Meanwhile, while not ideal, ACA has already significantly slowed down the growth of costs. Amazing what just adding some price transparency can do.
Unless, or should I say until, Congress caves to the lobbyists and extends the patent life again, no?
How to sync Gmail for Business with iOs 7?
Now that Google no longer supports Exchange for iOs, what's the best way to sync your calendar between your G-apps for domains and your iPhone (5S/iOs7)?
Aha I remember him talking about that problem in a talk at Google! He got that question in a screening interview for Google itself, and be got nerd-sniped :)

Apparently he now this ks about it every time he uses public rest rooms.

His xkcd talk at Google is we worth googling :)
"Projections"

It's currently in n.10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Deve...

And IDH doesn't tell the whole story.
amazing! can i use dvp layout by default?
There should be a iphone cover that blocks the power button
My girlfriend's iPhone was stolen in a subway station. She immediately rushed home to track it in Find My Iphone. However, the phone had been switched off immediately of course.

If there were an iphone cover that cannot be taken off easily and blocks the power button, you could trace your phone for much longer. And who needs the power button anyway? You could of course take it off with a special screwdriver or a small code lock or something.
To me, he just sometimes lacks tact. And there are way too many overly-sensitive people out there.

I think DeRaadt is in the same position (although I'll concede that he is more tactless than Torvalds).
>Needless to say that this American hospital would not even have admitted us without a certified check in advance

Well you ended up screwing yourself. Maybe you have never spoken to an American who didn't have health insurance and so didn't know, but, medical bills are settled later for less than half the insurance price and all hospitals have to admit you regardless of ability to pay by federal law championed by Kennedy.
Spelunky Procedural Level Generation
"The FBI's elite hacker team designed a piece of malicious software that was to be delivered secretly when Mo signed on to his Yahoo e-mail account..."

Quote from WP article referenced by OA

So the next Mo does not use Yahoo, alternates laptops with different OSes, and runs some kind of process monitor.

Arms race: as the techniques get more invasive, the targets get more careful. I don't know what the answer is.
FWIW, Groovy also has those smart asserts. They're nice. Not a big enough deal that i'd start a feature list with them, but nice.
Completely agree. I recall when I first saw the nosql craze and asked myself, what does this offer over and above what berkeleyDB did decades ago? Answer is very little.. Yes some features that the nosql packages add are nice, but they are not game changing.
This is it really. Who doesn't have a car that wants one? Who doesn't have a tv? Who doesn't have the Internet? Who doesn't live to a good age? And moreso in europe: who doesn't have free health care? Who doesn't get a living allowance and shelter when they're out of work? Who can't afford to fly and stay in other countries(£20 flights if you're not picky). Hell, you've even got a country debating whether or not to give every citizen a salary, for free!

The fact is that the poorest people have things that kings couldn't have a 100 years ago. You're going to have a hard time persuading people to rise up under these conditions. And really, why should they?
That's an interesting link. I always assumed that Rich Hickey came from academia, given that he made a successful programming language. Are there any biographical articles talking about his background?
I can't hear anything?
Something both parties will agree on...
This looks nice :D
Now it's 176+
> idle garbage collection ... Eating CPU when nothing is happening .. Painful surprise

Wait, what?
LMDB isn't discussed much on HN. Sounds too good to be true, what's the catch?
Better than your "ill-informed delusional ramblings".

I'd advise you talk about things that you understand, else the comment quality of this place is only going continue slipping. Not sure why this political piece is ranking so high here in the first place. Or has the site degenerated so much so quickly? (haven't checked HN for ages..)
Hi, this is very interesting to me as I am currently picking up PHP.

Can you point me to some resources which don't fall into the trap you highlighted?
Back in 2009 Microsoft sued TomTom[1] over what appear to be US versions of this patent[2][3] (EU version here[4]) and won. There were subsequently efforts to work around this patent in the Linux implementation of FAT[5].

1: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/micros...

2: http://www.google.com/patents?id=bUohAAAAEBAJ

3: http://www.google.com/patents?id=cLAkAAAAEBAJ

4: http://www.google.com/patents/EP0618540A3

5: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/vfat-l...
What do you plan to do with it??
I figured out how to get free music in iTunes
if you subscribe to the channel you have a chance to win a $25.00 Amazon gift card when we get to the 100 subscriber mark!
The Happstack tutorial [0] is pretty great and I just put together a bare-bones compiling Happstack server [1]. That might be a great way to start. Happstack is a fairly unopinionated web package, so there's a bit of elbow grease needed still, but it's my favorite.

[0] http://www.happstack.com/docs/crashcourse/index.html

[1] https://github.com/tel/happstack-heroku-test
Agreed, I was surprised how many code Slime implementation has, there are source files about several kloc in size. From what I saw I can say that "lisp expressiveness" did not helped much there.
Sounds like he was taking advantage of the system. I think I would've felt the same as the university: sack him if he doesn't win the Nobel.
http://sourcesofinsight.com/synthetic-happiness/ Apparently even the seeking isn't necessary
Oh yes! My favorite part of Haskell's type system is it's documentation purpose. It doesn't cover intent very well, but it's quite frequent that I can reason about the entire purpose and functionality of a function just by looking at its type. This documentation is guaranteed to never go out of date.
Other information I find have the same consequence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Patent_Convention#Oppo...):

"A European patent is also non-unitary in that it may be revoked in one Contracting State while maintained in another. However, a national court in one Contracting State may not revoke a European patent in another Contracting State."

This is a bit surprising. At the beginning of the Samsung vs Apple trials, also in Germany, it was widely reported that the german ruling would have EU-wide effects. Those were patent cases as well...

Maybe the difference is between invalidating patents and deciding whether a patent is infringed by another party.
The name is not a good choice I believe as Atlassian's CI system is called the same.
This just seems to be a cli app for pleer.com, which seems to have a massive cache of mp3s. Has nothing to do with spotify, and is downloading music from that site is likely breaking copyright laws in the us and other places.
>Why BASH instead of another programming language?

>Is the default shell for all OSs except for Windows

BSD users would very much disagree, as would embedded Linux users and others. In fact, this assumption is a very common cause of portability problems for free and open source software.

I'm as guilty as anyone of assuming every shell is bash but when I had to make my software compile and run tests on both Linux and FreeBSD straight out of the repository I discovered that targeting the POSIX shell was not as limiting as you might think. I have since made it a habit to avoid "bashisms" in most scripts; a good way to start with that is to learn what is and isn't a bashism using a handy list found at http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Bashism.
The cynic in me says that even if the patent is thrown out, it will have little effect on the extortion that Microsoft is practicing against Android. They'll just find another vague patent to threaten manufacturers with.
They also have Stash, which is named after the "git stash" command. I guess we can just call the CI system, Atlassian Bamboo.
OpenSSH makes bcrypt key encryption default
I use the power button to lock the phone (turn off the backlight), to mute incoming calls when the phone is in my pocket, and to take screenshots. It would suck for me (and a vast majority, I think, of people who do the same) to have to take off the case with a "special" screwdriver.

A better option would be to prompt the user to enter their passcode before turning the phone off, if at all the user has set a passcode.
They say memory is the second thing to go. ;) Unfortunately, the OS doesn't know how to remove files or modify database entries that also represent program state, or properly shut down connections to other machines. Proper unwinding is still necessary.
Thank you very much for taking the time to provide these details and tips.
I'm currently really struggling against the limits of my analytics provider(mixpanel) and this looks like it might be a great alternative(we've already built our own GUI on top of mixpanels engine). I don't recall seeing any similar projects, have I missed a good one or is this the first of a new breed?
IANALE, but my understanding is that precedent, though a primary principle of common law legal systems, is of somewhat lesser importance in systems arising from other traditions. That's not to say the ruling cannot possibly have any significance, only that the bookmakers' windows are still open.
Black boxes are never patentable. The concept of patents is that you reveal exactly how your process works and you get a limited monopoly on the totally new and non-obvious bits of your process for the public benefit. It always matters how the process works inside.

I shouldn't have used the term "black box". Assume it's a pair of crystal clear boxes, and inside one is a beautiful, novel arrangement of gears and camshafts which I have painstakingly documented in patent A, and inside the other is a run-of-the-mill laptop, running software that I have painstakingly documented in patent B.

Both devices perform the same function. It's something no device has ever done before, and has substantial practical uses. Let's say it can accurately predict when your in-laws will next visit.

What makes patent A valid while patent B is "harmful to innovation"? Or are they both "software patents"?
Even 3 papers per year would be below average nowadays.
I agree! Can someone upload a pdf please? I cant open ppt at the moment.

EDIT: http://www.viewdocsonline.com/document/b37ou4
When I scanned the headlines, I misread this as Obama Code School, I guess that's where the healthcare.gov developers went...
For those that don't know, OpenSSH previously used MD5 to secure the private keys. They added the option a while back to use PBKDF2 via PKCS#8, but I rarely see it in use in the wild.
Nothing can prevent a undocumented mess, but certain factors can help mitigate it. For example, most people in Haskell write the type declarations for their top-level functions, which certainly helps. Also, because you need to be honest about side effects in Haskell, if you see Vector a -> Int -> a, you know there are no side effects and so you can be pretty damn sure that this is an indexing function.
Printing $20 trillion and issuing stock with neither resource (gold, silver, any rare or precious material) backing it will cause immediate devaluation of the existing currency and rapid inflation.

Issuing $20 trillion in stock with no service or commodity backing it will cause a rapid drop in the value of the stock, as there will be no demand for the stock.

If you use the $20t in stock to back the $20t in new currency, you're looking at a very rapid collapse in the economy. If you do this in the US, which is still currently the base for the global economy, you're talking about tanking everything. Once, or if, China or the EU trading zone become a more stable alternative foundation, it might not cause as much damage, but you're still looking at a sudden upheaval with this plan.

The alternative, of course, is to use the /people/ as the commodity or precious resource underpinning the 20 trillion dollars, but then we're talking about legitimate slavery. No, thank you.

I'm open to alternative ideas on how to back the investment and guaranteed income. I just see a hole in your current plan, that perhaps you've already thought about and covered.
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The syntax is very minimalistic at cost of much more semantical burden. Parsing Lisp code for humans often relies on conscious understanding the words and AST structure, not on reflexes tied to a visual memory of characters and indents. So I think that Lisps are at odds with human perception (someone may consider this an advantage: this repels people who code with their cerebellum instead of cerebral cortex). But once you have a picture of what is the code about in your head, it's not a big deal.
Actually, as soon as I saw Curtis's name on it I stopped reading. His documentaries are egregious narratives with little relation to reality, from past experience.
Sure, but that means setting a valuation. Price = valuation.
For each idiotic patent that expires I would suspect that more than one idiotic patent is granted.

This nonsense won't stop until we abolish patents. And we really need to abolish patents. Completely. The patent system can't be fixed.
> Better than your "ill-informed delusional ramblings".

Then please provide sources.

Japanese birth rates plunge to record low: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-07/japanese-birth-rate...

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/07/21/drastic-change-in-im...
For what I see on the Showcase games, they are canvas, but I really hope it supports webgl also, looks like an interesting library.
Sand is not sedimentation.
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/FormsOfInp...
A lot of plants in an area, room for example, can give the area a fresh or clean feeling. That small change can be enough to see a benefit to you as it's just a more pleasant place to be.

That alone can be a beneficial effect.
Something got lost in translation, no_wave originally said, "stop working for six months". It wasn't a request for paid time off.

And looking at the rest of your (Millennium) comments, it looks like you took it personally and unironically got angry.
Geez. That seems...vulnerable.
Bitcoin Technical Analysis Was on the Mark
From App to Cookie
"The Stage class represents the main drawing area and is a wrapper over the HTML5 Canvas element"
In the United States it is FDA approved for use in men however it still isn't widely used in boys.
Well UTF-16 and UTF-32 are less complex than UTF-8. My point is that codings aside, it's just a big table of characters plus some command codes.
What the...

1. Bash is definitely not the default OS shell for "all OSs" except Windows. Most Android devices, most embedded devices running a variation of Linux, a lot of Unix systems and increasingly more desktop Linux systems don't run bash as a default.

2. Pretty much every shell invokes a myriad of native binaries. That's kind of what a shell does. cmd.exe does that just as easy as bash does.

Don't get me wrong, bash is nice, but the opening part of this presentation is bullshit. Also, what the fuck happened to O'Reilly?
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Because this glosses over the really complex parts. Still, if they are written in Lisp, this would comprise a complete self-sufficient X server (how many lines of code this would take though?).
I don't think it's true of anything but OSX and most desktop linux-en. Solaris, hp-ux, AIX use(d) ksh, QNX too I think.
Most of such rhetoric is just a word acrobatics. The confusion comes from using inappropriate words, because this phenomena needs some new words for a correct description.

We cannot call this a currency because having few exchanges does not make it as such. There are option exchanges and futures exchanges and other specialized institutions.

It the first place, a currency cannot be this volatile, or, if so, it is a worthless currency.

The current observable behavior is alike of futures and options - the price (not a value) is determined by expectations that people are holding about further movements of the price, so, basically it is a commodity futures speculation.

The particular properties of the underlying technologies, such as decentralization and publicly available log of all transactions are just nice (and unique) properties, but they does not magically create any value for a bitcoin, which is just a set of unique numbers.

Therefore, it is not a currency, it is a internet powered and hence globally available digital (virtual) commodity, (as worthless and dangerous as means of legal tender as derivatives) which now is in a stage of a truly global ponzi scheme, where prices are based on the pure speculation about it further movements.

The usage of familiar words in a new context is what makes the ponzi scheme rolling - people make their snap-judgments based on old "rules" about "currencies" which are not appropriate for bitcoins along with peer and bandwagon effects. Very clever.
I somehow have the feeling this is related to:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-apple-becomes-lates...

It seems large companies in the US need to give money to the lobbyists otherwise they have trouble.

Regarding the high standing of Google in the hacker community I wonder why this news article is not voted higher.
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Huge bias towards patents ? This is the guy that launched NoSoftwarePatents.com, right ?
Sounds like a 1st april headline. If this article is accurate, it stretches the "Modern" qualification way too far far