skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust relies on a newer version of LLVM than Emscripten is based on (as Emscripten-fastcomp is based on the PNaCl fork of LLVM, which is lagging behind). Once the PNaCl fork is updated and Emscipten rebases, or they rebase onto LLVM proper, then it should be doable fairly easily.
You think that Antisemitism started with Christianity? Read the Old Testament.
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I'm talking about experimental alternatives. This is not for production code. And it's still better than just out-commenting code to deactivate it.
You don't win just by having google's pocketbook. I know some projects who wished that was true and I'm sure you do too.

You can complain about dalvik or webviews or the shitty ide or whatever, fact is there isn't a SINGLE company in the valley or Seoul or anywhere in the tech world who doesn't want to be in control of Android. How are those FB and MSFT and AMZN efforts going?

That tells you all you need to know about why Android has been and will be a "success" to google.
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>...so when Apple offered fingerprint ID in place of a PIN to access its iPhone, what hipster could resist?

Stopped reading after the first sentence.
Matt, thanks for the feedback!

I'm not sure this app would get official support from DO, since it's a bit hacky. I imagine DO would add their own install-button support at some point in the future (at least I hope so).

This app does set a referral cookie whenever someone chooses to install an app using it.
The problem with the YogaGlo patent is that covered basically what you would do if you wanted to film a yoga class and thought about it for five minutes... and there was plenty of "prior art" using the same strategy.

If it was a truly novel thing involving (say) a camera rig for capturing more angles, or using 3d modeling to highlight specific body angles and positions, I might be sympathetic, but this patent was approximately "put a camera in a yoga studio".

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/octobers-very-bad-no-g...
You would also have to vacuum all the space between the cannon and space, and at that point you have a space elevator you can just climb up.
Yes, since it doesn't seem like something that costs billians in R&D and needs a patent for a government-enforced monopoly to make back those costs.
From the abstract:

Abstract: As a math-loving teen-ager, I got swept up into an intense and almost indescribably intoxicating binge of mathematical exploration, all of which was centered on the discovery (or invention?) of integer sequences. The very first discovery in this binge came out of an empirical exploration of the way in which triangular numbers intermingle with squares, and the discovery of the strange hidden order in the sequence that reflected their intermingling was extremely unexpected and exciting to me.

This huge burst of joy instantly gave rise to the desire to repeat the experience, which meant to recreate essentially the same phenomenon again, but in a new "place", which meant to generalize outwards, and I carried out this generalization by exploring all sorts of "nearby" analogues, where the words "place" and "nearby" of course suggest (at least to mathematically inclined folk!) some kind of metaphorical, but perhaps objective, space of ideas, and in it, some kind of metaphorical metric.

Over the next few years, analogies and sequences came to me in wondrous flurries, giving rise to all sorts of discoveries, some very rich and inspirational to me, some of course less so, but in any case, these coevolving discoveries constantly pushed the envelope of richly-interconnected ideas outwards, revealing new and unsuspected caverns in this mysterious idea-space that I had stumbled upon. Some of my explorations gave rise to patterns that I could fully understand and prove, whereas others gave rise to mysterious, chaotic behaviors that were far too deep for me to fathom, let alone prove. After a while, I started hitting up against the limits of my own imagination, and thus, sadly, I gradually ran out of steam, but the several-year voyage had been incredible one of the greatest voyages in my life.

The talk will thus be all about the very human, intuition-driven, analogy-permeated nature of mathematical discovery, invention, and exploration not at the immensely abstract level of great mathematicians, to be sure but hopefully, the essence of the mental processes mediating the modest meanderings of a middling, minor mathematician is more or less the same as that of those that mediate the marvelous and majestic masterstrokes of a major, mature mathematician.
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But it's so convenient!
It makes me think of https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/giroptic/the-worlds-fir...
This piece originally appeared on Medium, and has been reprinted with permission.

The original article is much nicer to read:

https://medium.com/@blprnt/the-hypercard-legacy-e5b9eb273b6a
is there a form of transport that is _not_ limited by the rocket equation?
I think most handheld navigation aids infer direction of travel from position information. An electronic compass gives the orientation of the device, who knows how it is being held.

I guess they use a compass when it's available, like for trying to display a map oriented to compass north, but I don't think it is dependable as algorithmic input.

Something mounted in a vehicle can directly factor the compass data into directions though (just saying that to emphasize that I'm talking about handheld stuff above).
That's why some people have thought about sending a fuel factory to the Moon, refining the fuel there, and using mass drivers to send it to Earth orbit for serious interplanetary missions.
If you work out all the time, would steroids have no effect on your body? Of course no one would say no to that, the steroids would enhance it even further.
Pretty much any large rocket today has an explosive self-destruct mechanism to cover failure modes where the rocket goes in an unintended direction. So that's one reason a nuclear rocket might explode at low altitude.
DigitalOcean does have an affiliate program[0] – is there a way to include that with the button?

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/referral-program/
Massive drill bit nearly skewers New Yorkers in packed subway car
Role models are hugely important. I never found Joan Rivers particularly funny, but I noticed on Twitter how her passing truly upset many female comedians. It turns out that funny or not, she was a pioneer as a female comedian and in turn managed to inspire a whole new generation of female comedians who felt, as you aptly put it, a sense of possibility.

That's why if we want to be successful in diversifying the world of programming we need Tim Cook to come out, we need successful women and minorities to be vocal about their passion and work in our field (much more so than the usual narrative of "tech discriminating against X").
Fagsworth is correct in a semantic sense, however there needs to be respect of the process of healing.

It isn't a magic bullet, where you take them, have a trip, and are suddenly a different human being.

This can, and certainly does, happen.

However, psychedelic experiences leading to profound introspection can sometimes exacerbate the symptoms. The ego, when exposed, is a very sensitive construct and can sometimes take a while to re-establish itself.

An example: You are a nice, caring person... But you can be a supremely arrogant jerk on occasion. You take mushrooms, and have an hour of uncomfortable dissonance on the negative effects of your arrogance.

You discover a new way to look at yourself, that completely alters your outlook on yourself as a human partaking in the human experience. But, this hurts a little because you feel ashamed and embarrassed.

This isn't something that may help you somersault out of bed the next day, but once you understand what you learned you may find yourself being more compassionate in the long run.
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It's amazing how quickly and clearly KSP makes this line from the article quite evident:

>> The giant leap for mankind is not the first step on the Moon, but in attaining Earth orbit.
As you get more experienced with Scala, you begin to develop better habits and notice more patterns and you will throw away a lot of the unneeded complexity.

Scala can be complex (on paper), but in practice it doesn't have to be.
I agree, this is why I placed: Rule 0.1 - MUST NOT follow advice blindly (and I meant it)

> get something working first

Yes and no. Getting something working first introduces technical debt. If the developers are responsible enough to go back later and fix it, it's OK, but in larger teams (over 3 people) this tends to not happen, then you're left with shitty components that become a liability and for which the reasonable thing to do would be to throw them away and restart from scratch, which also never happens because management doesn't agree.

In the context of a startup or personal projects, of course, things get shipped fast, mistakes are made, components are fixed later or rewritten, etc... but btw, some things are easy to do once you get used to it (e.g. immutable data-structures) and some choices are more natural to make once you know what you're doing (e.g. Actors vs Future vs Rx).

This is what I'm trying to pass on to colleagues - do stuff, but don't be superficial about it, because there's nothing worse than slapping an "if" in there that will fix a bug and cause 3 others. As in, if you need to do compromises, do them, but at least know why you did that and have a plan for fixing it.
Yep, it already does! Whenever someone clicks to install, a referral cookie is set on DO.
The rocket equation still applies, but the propellent velocity is so high that you don't a large mass fraction.
> and is that due to butterfly effect ?

Yes very much so. The initial condition and the differential equation were not that different for the two countries. The trajectory however turned out to be drastically different. The statesmen in charge during its formative period did not take steps which would have otherwise made such a scenario less likely. Small changes in courses of their actions early in its history, a decision here and there had major influence on how the country would shape up. They were not thinking ahead.

It was a mistake to put religion in the center of politics. It was a mistake to cultivate this identity of the wronged population. Likewise for the now popular narrative of competing to be the better muslim, the roots of that narrative go farr back in time. Although Zia is the popular choice to ascribe the blame to, it had started way before. Bhutto (the father and the golden liberal boy) was for example very much in the business of deciding who is a true Muslim and who is not, deciding that Ahmadias are to be persecuted for not being pure enough Muslims, passing parliamentary laws to that effect. Check out why does Abdus Salam's grave in pakistan says

"...became the first <defaced> Nobel laureate for his work in physics".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam#mediaviewer/File:Gr...

If Indian politicians play the same game, the consequences would be no different. We would get a non-muslim pakistan.

> And still you are more worried about fascism in India!

Yes and for a reason, because history does rhyme.

> Muslims in Pakistan regularly kill minorities

Perhaps you have a very cherry picked view of Indian history... since when has Hindu's in India not killed minorities. It seems to be a mandatory right of passage to take charge of national politics.

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

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

For those who are not very familiar with India, if you look closely you will see that some regions are regular and repeat offenders in post independence India whereas others are not affected.
I'm somebody who enjoys tinkering around with Clojure, I really wish that I could use it more at my day job, and I'm not particularly interested in Scala. Still, I have to thank you for this well thought out response. So often we have language wars that consist of two sides each with only a cursory knowledge of the other side's technology.

I like how pragmatic Clojure is, but I think I can understand when you said that it's "maybe a little too pragmatic". The more I learn about Haskell (which is still very little, to be honest), the more I wish that Clojure had more in common with Haskell. On the other hand, the new work on transducers to me seems to solve some of the problems that you bring up about map, filter, etc., in that transducers work with any manner of data sources and sinks.
IntelliJ's Scala plug-in has some support for things like these.
It seems extremely odd to me that this author would write an article lamenting the lack of a HyperCard-like development tool without mentioning LiveCode, which is basically exactly what he's talking about — a modern, thriving successor to HyperCard, based on the HyperTalk language and the exact same concepts as HyperCard, being used by thousands of developers to create applications that run on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
http://d3js.org/ is your best bet
Being that I am a Mac guy, I always sort of wondered about launchd as a reasonable middle ground between the godawful current init mess and the looming all-encompassing Stygian Lovecraftian systemd mess.
Google’s search for life-saving nanoparticles
your analogy depends on muscles being like neurons
Awful Moments in Quarantine History: Remember Typhoid Mary?
I was not aware that cloudflare was hostile to tor users. I mean, I know they apparently bother my friend who uses a VPS with checking if he is human or not.
Tales from the script
ROFL. Gee, what will I use to fuel my car and what will I eat for dinner tonight? Oh, I know! I have some political speeches left in the freezer...

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140906052122/potcoplaye...
Africa’s first high-frequency climate observatory in Rwanda
I started my career in the public sector where salary is published and set in stone before you even apply for a position. Everyone knows everyone's pay grade. I never once saw any kind of jealousy about someone making more than someone else for doing the same job title.

This has two effects (1) Saves me a lot of time on the negotiation front. If the announcement doesn't pay what you want, don't apply to it. Saves me and the hiring manager a lot of wasted time if I were to apply to a post thinking I'll get paid $X when it will really pay $Y. And (2) Since it's all public anyway, everyone knows that if you want to make $X then you need to train into position Y and you have a pretty concrete list of knowledge/skills that you can hack away on to achieve that. None of this blind guess work.
Our (small) team adores slack. I didn't even realize what the pricing was when we first started - I thought it was free forever with some freemium features. Then all the sudden we hit our quota (after a month of heavy, heavy use), and paying for the full subscription was a no-brainer. The product truly is fantastic, and we'll pay for it all day long.
Same here. iOS devices are well past the hipster threshold.

Also, it looks like this isn't the only article trying to spook iOS users out of using TouchID today. PandoDaily is running one as well. They even included some snark about how the writer doesn't know how to make TouchID work, therefore making it garbage I guess.

If anyone out there doesn't know the trick yet, use two TouchID fingerprint "slots" per thumb and one for your main hand index finger. I'm well over 95% success rate on TouchID use with this method.
Isn't Siri listening by default now in iOS 8 whenever the phone is plugged in?
Those are the same things.

If you do not want to financially support pfSense, you can buy hardware from Netgate directly, starting from $299. Even cheaper as a kit or with older hardware, but you decide for yourself whether it will be adequate for you. I'm planning on buying an assembled APU from Netgate for myself; right now I'm using m0n0wall on a separate P3 PC (Celeron 1000), modded for silence. Probably will try out pfSense beforehand, on a separate CF card I just ordered.
Thanks! Any feedback or suggestion is welcome.
Not just the design, please read the article: https://medium.com/@enythingscom/google-doesnt-have-a-lot-of...

P.S. We are not saying that we want to beat Google (that would never happen), however, our website is for people who are not satisfied with Google.
>>> but my guess is that the majority of companies fall into the category where losing a person for a month is crippling.

I'm of the opinion that this is a reason to discourage the growth of small businesses. They are too small to absorb shocks like pregnancy or family emergency that contribute to the well-being of a society.
This.

When I said HTTP, I meant to include HTTPS. Intercepting HTTPS and filtering it is actually rather simple, and avoiding certificate warnings only slightly less so by deploying your own CA.

You're correct that some devices may use certificate pinning to prevent me from doing this, but for those devices my solution is simple: They're denied Internet access entirely.

Edit: As a manufacturer/vendor you have zero expectation of privacy from me the consumer. I bought the device, I bought the equipment that runs the network, I pay to keep the device connected to the Internet, I get the final say on which packets your app receives. Any vendor who believes otherwise is mistaken and should be named and shamed.
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I recently switched development positions for a better location even though I wasn't too sure I'd enjoy the position as much (the position was open so I jumped on it).

My thought process was: Do it for a year and then move into a position that I would be more along the lines of what I would be interested in. The company is growing quickly so there should be available positions.

I've been in the current position for a 2-3 months now and I really starting despise my decision. The project I'm working on is not challenging and I just feel like the return on the investment isn't what I'm used to seeing.

Has anyone in HN ever gone through a scenario like this? How did you handle it? Should I wait it out for greener pastures or look at other farms?
Not really surprising from a legal standpoint.

Fingerprints and DNA can be legally taken from you by law enforcement without your permission - but information, like your PIN #, cannot legally be forced from you.

Just one more thing to add to the "Law Breaking for Dummies" book.
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City Worker Gets 20-Day Suspension for Using Robot Voice to Answer Phone
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Lifting the lid on the ITU’s mysterious treaty conference
I'm working with middle schoolers for the First Lego League competition. The ones with some programming experience either had a Mindstorms kit at home or were playing with mods for games. But a number of the students seem inclined towards programming, but overwhelmed by how to get started.

There's some advantage to a stupid simple DOS computer with a copy of some BASIC implementation and every math textbook from grade 3 on having BASIC programs at the end of every chapter or section.
FCC reportedly close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers
Same here - HyperCard was my first experience with programming as a kid...on my old Mac Plus. I feel like it made a big impact on me, learning that I could create my own applications (I had the later version as well that let you make standalone applications - THAT was awesome!).
It's unfamiliarity with the idiom that makes me uncomfortable, to be perfectly frank. I'll get used to it.

I won't get used to how alien and ultimately weak Scala's support for algebraic data types is, and that's not changing. This comes down to the affordances that Odersky and the Scala team have decided to favor, which is OO flavored in a way that I don't like. I vastly prefer the ML style:

data Foo = Bar s | Baz

to the sealed class/case nightmare of Scala. Again, this is not a technical nit -- this is an idiomatic and personal one.
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I'm not terribly fond of either option in Rust; however I would encourage the formalization of a protocol for handling non-fatal errors. It's the route Common Lisp went when it inherited the idea from the Multics PL/1 OS. It was a huge win and they chose a very user-friendly (ie: programmer-friendly) design.
John H. Conway – Is the Collatz conjecture unprovable?
In my experience and having tried everything since Google Wave, Slack is the first platform to come along that has really significantly reduced email usage while improving team communication.

I predict that it is really going to be huge.
Android founder Andy Rubin is leaving Google
How to Release a Free API and Get Paid Indirectly
isn't ruby touted for 'reading like english' ? I could imagine some beginner-friendly DSL or API to do very similar things.
From the article's description I'd say Rust has exceptions, you just cannot catch them. In Java-speak, you only have try-finally. They are catched at the bottom of the call stack automatically, killing the thread.
I'd kindly prefer that people not litter HN with puerile, psychologically baiting lines of argumentation from out in left field (c.f. "the gay hate brigade", up above) in the first place.
I want it to become the lad bible we can all enjoy instead of hate on haha :) quality content > headlines and spam.

I've managed to gather 3 or 4 content volunteers throughout the day so i'm feeling as if the site has tripled in size (atleast in my head it has)
It certainly makes things more complex for the compiler. However, I don't know an example where it would prevent an optimization.
everyone loves a buzzword :)
Shellshock Educational Materials (Demos, video, labs, etc)
and then.....
Can the NSA 'tag' a specific user using Tor? If so, wouldn't using Facebook over Tor then provide them with a direct link between your FB identity and your other Tor activity?
Just had it issued. Probably going to write a blog post now.
Facebook is not worth $33B (Sep 2010)
This kind of patent is nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do. I'm sure that in the history of filming one could find such setup - for how many decades have instructional videos be produced?

They just, as good weasels, found a weaselly way to patent an not-so-special idea, and patented it, with the assumption that if somebody finds a similar way of filming, say, 4 feet from the ground instead of 3, he certainly not going to have a few million dollars to proceed in court - we're talking about yoga, not android devices (ahem...).

Keep in mind, most importantly, that asserting that this patent is ridiculous doesn't equal or implies that any idea should be free for anyone to copy.