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> I'm not a mathematician, but I heard that math is most frequently written on a whiteboard. If that's true, then optimizing for speed and space efficiency of hand-writing suddenly makes sense.

But a lot of math is read from papers as opposed to written. Math and logic papers employ the concise notation we're talking about. You'd think mathematicians would have evolved a better notation for paper-writing if one was lacking (there being already many conventions and style guides that apply exclusively to paper writing and that are odd for everything else).

> The exact same thing can be said about PERL programmers. But why stop there, take a look at APL, J, K languages. J, for example, ships with all standard verbs aliased to words, like "under", "behead", "curtail" etc. Of course, nobody uses those, they write "&.", "}.", "{." instead.

Indeed, the same could be said about other languages. I was even going to write in my original post "of course, Haskell programmers are self-selecting". There are problems with the syntax of some of the languages you mentioned, probably because they require a special keyboard, which is an obvious hurdle. Others may not have prevailed because they were jarring to programmers that also had to program in mainstream languages (therefore, the familiarity argument all over again). Yet others are arguable -- PERL for example is joked about as a "write only" language, but how much of that is truly because of its syntax? Maybe idiomatic PERL merely leads to barely understandable programs. Maybe PERL is simply not a good language, no matter what (note: I'm not arguing this is the case, not being a PERL programmer myself). And maybe it's not true that PERL programmers find no fault in its syntax; maybe they have trouble reading their own code, which would put them in a different category than Haskell programmers!

In the end, all of this amounts to: a language syntax is aimed at its intended audience, programmers using that language and familiar with its intended degree of abstraction and with the problems it aims to solve. Programmers from other languages will often find it weird (and in Haskell this problem is increased by the fact it seems to belong in a different category than languages such as Java/C++/C#/etc.). It is a mistake to say that, because of this, language X has a "harder syntax"; the more correct claim would be "language X has a syntax that will likely be harder to learn for programmers used to F-inspired languages". This is probably related to the Blub paradox :)
I'm working building a UI library in swift that uses OpenGL for all rendering, etc. A page about this project is here:

http://photovivaapp.com/SwiftUI/

This runs on iOS for now, but it would be nice to get it running on android. I'm wondering how to call C code from Swift and how to call Swift from C for this project to work.
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iOS 8 finally allows dynamically linked frameworks.
It's not that crazy.

A $1000 bundle of 20's is 50 bills. Usually they're wrapped up like that. That's only 15stacks. You'd only really have to count one of the stacks, if you didn't trust them.
The difference is mostly that the owners of said breasts have expensive lawyers.
What's the alternative site?
Reddit is no different than anything else here in America. If you want to post pictures stolen from phones? Totally OK[1], unless the people in those pictures have money and thus lawyers. When the lawyers show up, Reddit will happily pull any material pertaining to the people with money, and leave everything else as it was.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/photoplunder
Brilliant! This made my day!
Advocate the engineering principle fault domains to isolate the problem with L2 broadcasts with L3 routers between the L2.
Not sure, I never had more than myself uploading. 4 or 5 downloading without issue.
most people don't
That's not the same thing. The argument is for choice, not replacement. A more appropriate example would be a single arXiv article written in Comic Sans without detracting from the message.

As for the wider debate, people have pointed out that it's a matter of form vs. function, but there's another aspect, which is intention. If you do not intend to convey any extra information by using Comic Sans, then discussing the font choice is irrelevant. It's only when Comic Sans is used to signify something that the whole form vs. function argument comes into play.

I, for one, am glad that there is a popular font that pisses experts off, Comic Sans is the punk rock of the font world, I hope others will make an impact.
Is 4chan hosted in the United States?
I use roundcube and it (usually) works great. Good choice.

[tangentially related] I love seeing a new TLD in the wild.
Seconded. Here's the link http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_t...
I used to carry tens of thousands of dollars in cash when I was a professional poker player because cash is the only accepted form of currency to buyin to a game or tournament. And getting large amounts of cash out of your bank when you need it can be really difficult, usually impossible.

I don't know why each of the people quoted in the article was carrying cash but I'm sure they had their reasons. And even if they were dumb reasons it doesn't matter. Making dumb decisions doesn't grant anyone, even the police force, the right to take what is not theirs. That is so basic and obvious that I wonder if you're just trolling.
This was not the case. The subreddit moderators were actively removing all underage images, just like any other subreddit.
There's actually a museum for miniature engineering, for anyone interested in the subject.

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/
38 comments and no McSweeny's link?

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg...
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Censorship precedes demise.

Surprisingly, it seems like people never learn. Censorship never is a solution, yet it eventually gets used by even those with the best intentions toward free speech.

I wonder what will need to happen for people to realize that censorship is a band-aid, not a cure. Whenever we try to censor/hide something, we should instead find ways for the world to still function properly once that knowledge is made public.

In any case, I respect what the "leakers" did (transparency is good), and I respect Reddit's choice to do whatever they want with their property even though I don't agree with their decision.

Like others have mentionned, time to find a platform that is not so sensible to censorship.
From what I understand, Reddit admins were getting tonnes more takedowns than usual (for underage pics etc), which was becoming a cat-and-mouse game, and took the pragmatic approach of just banning the whole subreddit.

The Reddit communities reaction this whole thing has been pretty sickening - enough for me to block it in my hostsfile. This was just the law straw I guess.
It's not unreasonable when it's written in the official language of the country in which your office resides.
> Except that we don't know how well this 'focus group' forecasting performs relative to voluminous reporting by analysts at State, CIA, RAND, Congressional Research, think tanks, etc.

Actually, we do. Philip Tetlock, who is mentioned in the article, spent more than a decade collecting tens of thousands of predictions from geopolitical experts. He found that humans are terrible at making predictions about complex phenomena; typically we are stomped by simple linear models or probablistic random walks.

Some humans were slightly better at predicting outcomes, but compared to simple models, they still sucked.

It didn't matter what other variables were involved. Education, access to classified information, experience, seniority, nationality, profession ... none of them mattered. A Russian politics expert is about as likely to pick Putin's next move as a financial economist who reads the New York Times.

Tetlock's book, Expert Political Judgement, is comprehensive. I reviewed it here: http://chester.id.au/2012/07/29/review-expert-political-judg...
You signed a contract you didn't read and then blamed someone else for it. Sorry, but all of this falls squarely on you. Especially for major decisions, understand what you're doing.

Not reading the contract and understanding it shows naivete and a lack of common sense. This also makes me question how much of your opinion of unbabel should be attributed to your naive worldview.
> I respect what the "leakers" did (transparency is good)

What? You're not being serious are you? Are you actually saying that no one should have any sort of privacy?
Civil Forfeiture: How prosecutors seize the assets of the innocent (2013)
I am in London and just don't see who the target customer was meant to be.

If I wanted to buy some ingredients, I would go to the supermarket or (usually a better choice) one of the many different foreign grocers that are 5 minutes away.
The Jewish Hand Behind Internet – Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo (2009)
Now that this subreddit is banned, no one will ever be able to see those pictures ever again, right? ...Right?
How the hell is taking down private photos obtained through illegal means censorship?
Yeah... radical transparency isn't leaking nudes. That's just breaking the law.
They weren't hosted by reddit, only indexed. Same legal argument made by The Pirate Bay. (Not a lawyer but) I think they would have been within their legal rights to say "not our problem", so it became an ethical consideration. Then they're in the game of saying "we won't takedown any content, except when we do."

Here's a good example: there are a few assisted suicide subreddits, do you feel those should be removed? Do you think the reddit admins are the people who should be making that judgement?
Guilty before proven innocent, right?
The specs may forbid NAT, but lots of companies are using it with IPv6 in exactly the same way they did with IPv4.

Not everyone wants to expose their internal IPv6 address space to the outside world.
I think the competitions are structured to show the difference between distinction and calibration. Submitting outlier predictions constantly eventually gives you the former but not the latter.

The easiest prediction in the short term is "Yesterday's Weather". Most of the time, most things don't change much.
"Since I have no internet - I don't know how to surf the web, but there seems to not be another one"

And that's probably why he's the only one.
In protest you should all switch to using digg.com.
I don't think an IDE is the answer to the problem.

I think making Scala more correct and more modular is the answer.
Hygienic macros and syntactic extensions are more what I had in mind. Rust seems to be a solid contender here but it's much more of a systems language.
What is good doesn't necessarily correlates with what is legal.

I'm totally aware that it's illegal, but that doesn't mean I can't support it.
Yes. Its also routed through Cloudflare [US company] and owned by a US citizen [moot].
Just to further this point: AFAIK, The BitTorrent protocol was not designed in order to stream content in any kind of order. I think the emerging P2P web technologies is good opportunity to iterate on BitTorrent and design a better-fit protocol.
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Absolutely not. Why would I want to pay in cash? It's neither convenient nor safe.
It seems Hunter Moore would disagree with you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Moore
No, it doesn't. Think about the mechanism a little more.
We both know these pictures are now public knowledge for good.

Reddit, in this case, just makes communication more difficult, which is a bad thing in my book. But I can't directly blame them without knowing their motivations or if they were coerced (which I think they were).
In what was is this good for anyone?
Prior to this, I've also seen them take down specific subreddits that linked to CP, so I don't think this purge is that out of the ordinary for them.
The idea that because some Federal agents have lied therefore we should discount anything all of them say is farcial.
In fact, the Reddit admins notified the moderators of that particular problem long before they banned the subreddit.

Can you spell "the moment you lose DMCA safe harbor provisions"?
/r/watchpeopledie /r/CandidFashionPolice /r/greatapes /r/whiterights /r/sexyabortions

and more are all reasons the admins there are hypocrits. likely its that they want celebs to like them thereby convincing themselves they are on equal footing, not an usual mental leap for people in the press or similar
Simply not true.

The subreddit mods had already told people in a announcement not to post anything of McKayla Maroney and that if any posts containing images of her existed, that they would delete the posts and ban the people posting that.

The subreddit ban came after all of this.
"Private photos" shouldn't be a thing in the first place.

I'm not arguing whether or not what they did is legal. I'm simply communicating an ideal.
> The contract was presented to me on paper and in Portuguese, 7 pages in total.

Given that Unbabel is a translation company, it is ironic that they didn't bother to translate the contract for you, knowing that you don't understand the language
Talk about Orwellian double-speak: they call it "asset forfeiture" and the "Equitable Sharing Program." It's theft and everybody knows it.

> "despite warnings from state and federal authorities that the information could violate privacy and constitutional protections."

It's illegal, pure and simple. No need to sugar coat.

> "Police can seize cash that they find if they have probable cause to suspect that it is related to criminal activity. The seizure happens through a civil action known as asset forfeiture. Police do not need to charge a person with a crime. The burden of proof is then on the driver to show that the cash is not related to a crime by a legal standard known as preponderance of the evidence."

Cops in the story act like the mere existence of a lot of cash is probably cause. This is the opposite of one of the major reasons for law and law enforcement: to protect people's property. We have police so we can feel secure with our property, not to take it so we have to fight back for it.
Pretty appalled in the larger communities reaction during all of this. /r/thefappening is a subreddit whose sole purpose is to host copyrighted pictures, some of which may be underage.

It's amazing and disgusting to see the lengths these people are going to do defend their so-called 'right' to shame and embarrass others online. Just because something isn't strictly illegal doesn't give them a free pass to go at it.

Edit: If you're going to downvote, please comment and explain why. I can't think of why a sane person (or, one that's been on HN long enough to be able to down vote) would disagree with Reddit's decision to ban /r/thefappening and it's content.
You should read the update here

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_t...

which explains the decision in greater detail. I think the reddit team is being held to an unreasonably high standard here. The subreddits were banned for generating a huge amount of legitimate DMCA takedown requests and not correctly moderating child pornography content, not because the subjects in the posted images were celebrities with money. There is a correlation, but not a causation. It's hard to run a media enterprise with millions of users, and I think reddit's ambition to be as hands-off as possible is almost unique and commendable.
It's silly to force an unnecessary third party into a business transaction if you dont need to. Money exists for a reason. Cash is king.
What you are saying is people with a voice can defend themselves which bothers those that want to do whatever they want, but dis-empowered people, too bad so sad.

I really don't get why anyone thinks this whole event is even remotely okay, they should have banned it from day one, the pictures were obtained illegally and definitely not posted with permission, and yes they should apply that rule to all of Reddit.

Reddit doesn't owe anyone imaginary "free speech" rights, they aren't a government entity but a privately held company.
Sounds like one of the concerns was logistical. There were so many DMCA takedown requests, reposts, etc, that it was taking up too much of their time/effort. If this actually was the case, do you say that they are obligated to just 'tough it out' or can they make a judgement call that it's not worth the extra effort?
I don't think that's what he's suggesting at all. We shouldn't automatically discount their statements, but we should start scrutinizing them very carefully before we make a call.
Then private communication shouldn't be a thing. In that case we should just allow all wiretapping and ban encryption
Were there not any demand for these? Demand alone demonstrates it's good for at least a few people.

Generally speaking, transparency makes the world better and more efficient. You might not be able to see what good it does, but the positive effect is certain.

Privacy and secrecy is just ignoring the problems. We must see them in order to fix them, and that's why transparency and communication is so important.
nice, but there is really no need to mention your age, especially if it is more than e.g. 13 ;)
This has no place on hackers news.
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nice try, hitler
The ephemerality of its content significantly eases the pressure to censor there.
Come on down voters! Don't you read SF?
The top comment in the thread is absolutely, 100% correct.

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_t...

(lists of disturbing-to-absolutely horrid subs follow in the replies, subs that have been allowed to be part of reddit for a very long time).

The thing that bothers me more than any other thing is that they "haven't figured out" what to do with all the gold that was purchased. Really?

Based on the communications form the admins, I think the problem is that they're making these decisions by committee rather than setting a policy and having a benevolent dictator enforce it. This makes the decisions like this seem arbitrary, hypocritical, unethical and bending to pressure from rich victims while not doing anything for poor victims.

Reddit has serious site wide moderation issues. I think the manpower needed to meta moderate a site as big as reddit has been greatly under appreciated. Every time a sub gets shut down, 3 pop up to replace it. Without full-time admins tracking this stuff, it's just going to continue to house and distribute this kind of stuff and the every once in a while decision to shut something down due to legal pressure is just going to continue to inflame the users.

edit so here's the answer from the admins as to what should happen with the lists of reprehensible subs, like pictures of dead children, or people fucking dogs

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_t...

I'd probably suggest they contact the image host to see if it violates their TOS and can be taken down. Some (but not all) image hosts may honour such requests, depending on the circumstances.

edit here's an AMA with the mod of the fappening sub http://www.reddit.com/r/casualiama/comments/2foon3/on_sunday...
But they are not hosting them, but only linking to them on other sites (e.g. imgur) which under US law is fine.
In the US, at least, there are money counting machines in, well, the two bank branches I've been using for a decade. Different banks, one small, one medium of size, in "flyover country" (Joplin, MO). The tellers don't entirely trust them, but they're at minimum useful in getting a double check of amounts. And quite fast, > 10 bills/second.
This is by no means a justification for these seizures, but in reading this I can't help but wonder in what legitimate situations one would actually need to carry such large amounts of cash. Would a money-order or bank-certified check not do the job, or would those be seizable by the police as well?

Again, I say this more in a "how can I avoid this type of situation" sense, rather than implying that there was any wrong-doing on the part of the cash carriers.
You know, quite a lot of people running Oracle are dreaming of replacing it with Postgres.

(At the day job, we're finally proceeding with this next year. I'm sure there will be many a tale to tell!)
Post all your accounts and passwords right here, right now, or you are a hypocrite.
They host thumbnails.
> The general idea is that the integrity of the criminal justice system is at least an order of magnitude more important than the outcome of any particular case.

If for some reason only one lesson on civics were taught in 12 years of schooling, this would be a top candidate for that lesson.
Anyone who writes software to deal with unicode really better care about unicode normalization!

You are going to have all sorts of edge case bugs and unexpected behaviors if you don't, definitely not limited to Hangul. There are multiple un-normalized ways to write all sorts of on-screen glyphs, including Latin alphabet ones.
That's true for almost any NSFW subreddit. Those images are copyrighted and most often the person posting the link doesn't have permission. Occasionally some underage pictures might be mixed in, but the mods remove them. What's exceptional about /r/thefappening? It was following the same principle. Except that it was pictures of celebrities, received a large amount of traffic very quickly, and was denounced by many media outlets.
We should allow all non-coercive wiretapping.

We should not ban encryption, although I see no reason to use it for anything.
IPv6 will allow them to track you down.  Not
Instead of demonizing an entire race/religion/whatever because you feel oppressed or victimized, you could instead look at what decisions they made in life that brought these particular people to have successful positions. This article starts off on the wrong foot, and I agree that it has no place on HN.
Don't you Americans feel ashamed of your country? Your country is beginning to stink. In many respects it is worse than third world countries.

How is this different from some third world country where police stop cars to collect bribes from drivers?

Well I'll tell you. In America the whole administration, the judiciary, the legal profession, the government at federal,state and county level are in on it. It seems that it succeeds basically because it is too expensive to get justice through the courts, this means that the courts and legal profession are in on it too. In third world countries is just the police and their superiors who get the money, and it generally petty cash.

It looks like it is not terrorists who are going to destroy America after all. Your corrupt governments, banks, judiciary and law enforcement will do it on their own.

A justice system which only the rich can afford is not a justice system in principle or in practice.

The funny thing is that it has been going on for decades and it looks like the Washingon Post just noticed, as though they didn't know about it ages ago.