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A bit surprising that Jean-Louis confused Itanium with PA-RISC. Itanium was started at HP as a successor to PA-RISC and provided an emulation mode for PA-RISC legacy users but it's EPIC (VLIW) architecture was pretty much a clean slate.
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The QBasic help system was really, really good and I don't think it gets enough love. I was seven years old when I really got started with it and it was perfectly comprehensible and super helpful.
I'm no insider, so all i can say is that i suspect http://ewontfix.com/15/ holds the key.

Existing pppd would have to be using one of simple, forking, oneshot or idle to indicate that it is up. And quite possible they have deemed that too unreliable for whatever use case they have.

The other options would be to modify the existing pppd to use dbus or notify. And at that point they may well have gone with reimplementing the parts of ppp they need for their existing use case.
It compiles to AST, so he could just do the same we did in Hy, write a import hook and stuff the compiled AST back as an module. Then python should be able to use mochi without many limitations.
Is HN allowing duplicate submissions now? I don't see a difference in the URLs for this and [1].

I am glad this is getting some attention. One of the authors is a former coworker of mine and told me about it a couple weeks ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8724655
Generally you'll be doing this anyways (as you'll be storing it with a bit to tag if it is a pointer).

However, it is... interesting... that a language that is so low-level does not have any simple construct for doing this, especially seeing how trivial it is in x86 assembly (add the numbers, then check the overflow flag).

And saying "just don't used signed arithmetic" misses the point. If a "general-purpose" programming language cannot do something that is trivial in the next layer down, and that occurs as commonly as wanting to do something if there would be an overflow, I am inclined to blame the language, not the coder.
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>> "pseudo-artistic details like "immediately noticed a tense quality in the ambulance driver’s voice""

You mean storytelling?
Sure - and some opiates (including ones with dangers of addiction and overdose morphine) are themselves prescribed, carefully. But they're not safe on the same level that, say, marijuana or LSD are.
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You know you're an introvert when you call in sick or plan your vacations to "coincidentally" fall during an office festive event. True story.
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Thanks everyone -- good things to think about.
I'm really glad we're starting to see compile-to-Python languages crop up. Don't get me wrong, Python is a great language, and the community around it is fantastic, but it's missing key functional/concurrency features that would make certain problems much less tedious to solve. For instance, I love the built-in use of persistent data structures in Mochi--that's something that's sorely missing from the Python standard library.
I've seen some of these claims before and find them interesting.

The TM quote is pretty hilarious/strange - "they" either means the government or whatever tryptamine fueled fantasies he encountered in South America.

Could you cite something regarding the Eleusian Mysteries ushering in the Greek Dark Age?

Cicero supposedly said:
"Among the many excellent and divine institutions that your Athens has developed and contributed to human life, there is none, in my opinion, better than these mysteries, by which we have been brought forth from our rustic and savage mode of existence, cultivated and refined to a state of civilization; and as these rites are called "initiations" so, in truth, we have learned from them the first principles of life and have gained the understanding, not only to live happily, but also to die with better hope.
"

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/e/eleusinian_myst...

Of course, since I can't read Latin or Greek, I can't really verify that this quote truly was written by Cicero.

Regarding the strain of opinion that thinks modern entheogen advocates are being systematically manipulated by government agents - there might be some truth to it, but I feel like it must be an inadequate explanation.

Entheogens have been used well before modern USA governments. Governments in general seem to expend much more energy trying to prohibit them than they do covertly advocating their use. I just find the whole thing to be very implausible.
"Well being" and "life satisfaction" don't necessarily build boats...

The idea of psychedelics for mind expansion is not new nor is it novel. But as civilization became complex, the idea was largely discarded or relegated to arcane corners (and on occasion persecuted). I'm saying I believe there is a reason this happened and in those societies in which it didn't, complexity didn't develop.

There may be benefits for certain people at certain times and places. But I believe psychedelics are not a magic bullet for out of the box thinking and enlightenment which everyone should take. Not if we want to the trains to keep coming on time.
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It may look like shouting, but the brand-name is upper-case singular. I was almost more surprised that the OP uses the name correctly, as the transliteration of LEGO to legos is as common in North American English as Los Angeles is to the awful 'Los Angelease' in the typical British pronunciation.
"I think the limitations are not main reason why these 8-bit computers produced many good programmers. It's the fact that they booted straight to BASIC. In many cases, that was all you had. That invited people to start experimenting."

More than half the kids I knew who had computers growing up just used them to play games - there was no experimenting with BASIC or anything else. It was a games console with a keyboard - that was it.

OF those who did program, I think many were forced in to getting 'better' because of the limitations. You generally couldn't say "just add another meg of ram to run this" - there really was only one configuration in many cases - you had to think of interesting ways to compact more info in to a program (compression, page out to disk, etc).

Yes, having a programming environment as the first thing you're greeted with probably did get many people involved, but the limitations also produced a mindset amongst many devs of learning how to do more with less.
No you don't. Evaluate the statement independently of who is making it. Just because someone calls themselves "feminist" while making a claim doesn't mean you should invalidate their claim.
I was a little surprised there is no mention of the Burmese script. The distinctive shape of Burmese (limited number of straight lines) is due to palm leaves being the standard medium on which it was written. Straight lines are more likely to split the leaves.
Interoperability may be a factor. Everything that enters your world will tell you nothing about the possible ranges and you pretty quickly have to assume the worst case everywhere or add range limiting assertion early. It still sounds like a good idea but maybe it's harder to do than it seems.
Why are Flashlight plugins written in Python? (I'm asking out of curiosity; I like it.)

JS and Ruby are bundled with OS X as well and Apple started offering some JavaScript APIs in 10.10 for stuff that could previously only be done with AppleScript.
I noticed this too, and thought it was especially funny considering both names are linked to their respective Wikipedia entries.
Range checking early doesn't strike me as a bad thing at all.
Which "huge vested interests" are you referring to specifically? I can understand that if the Khan academy were to really take off, it'd shake quite a lot of educational institutions. Everything from universities, state-funded schools, teachers unions, the works. And I don't think a lot of them would like that, as I it would appear to the individuals running/manning them that their jobs are on the line.

The reason I say state-funded schools wouldn't like this is because they work on a false premise. Supposedly that education is not free/cheap enough, and that government funding is required to make it work for the masses. You take away that, and public/state schools become glorified daycare so that the parents can stay productive instead of having to babysit their offspring.

One addition: I've just setup a recurring donation to the Khan academy. One small step at proving that society can function without state-coercion.
Another commenter here, but I can relate - I like my coworkers and I'm sure they feel the same about me, but these birthday gatherings, christmas parties and other special occasions...well, I don't hate them, but comfortable is not a word I would use to describe them. It may sound like a cliche from the "introverts' manual", but when it comes to me, social interactions are preferred in small crowds, or even better, one on one.

It doesn't have to mean the he doesn't like other people as you seem to imply.
False positives or false negatives in this type of fuzzy correction could be very detrimental to students. Khan Academy is doing an excellent job at what it is currently aiming to do. Doing less well by trying to do more would decrease its value.
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The last half of his statement is especially invalid in roughly half of the world. Bill Gates isn't very strong, and he's more useful than any 'strongman' I've ever heard of.

See: Einstein, Newton, Aristotle, Tesla, Edison, Stephen Hawking et al. Brain has proven to be vastly more important and useful, than brawn, for thousands of years.

Bill Gates being particularly strong would not add anything to his overall value proposition, in fact I'd argue it's entirely irrelevant.
I'm going to guess you've never had an extreme problem in communication throughout your entire existence.

For some time, for me, the grammatical structure of my sentences formed such a weak relationship to the interpretation of meaning of language, that a single word of a single sentence in a single paragraph could compose many meanings, and that doing this over and over throughout the paragraph could compose many more meanings, until all comprehension of what was intended to be expressed seemed to be completely lost. Communication had distinct dual meanings often, sometimes many, many more. The grammatical structure serves as an abstract form, then each word relationship is applied and toyed around with until associations that have nothing to do with the topic at hand are formed. I would be lost in attempting to speak back to someone. When I tried to speak, I would run off on a tangent that received blank stares at best. I was convinced people were purposefully messing with my head, but it was only the extraction of a single word from a single sentence that projected itself into my imagination and then distorted itself into a web of intricate knots that continued to build one after the other.

Some people call this telling stories. For me, it was the way I perceived my reality, even though my perception held in thought never matched my reality.

I have a habit of escaping into complex mathematics, so at least I have the illusion of intelligence (although it turns out, I am very good at complex mathematics, and this is useful). But it's very difficult, living like this. The single and the many is a real problem. You can think you know what you are talking about, but until you actually become convinced that every sentence can be interpreted completely differently by the listener, and by some form of magic I call compassion of others noticing how completely aloof I am, you manage to exist in society as member that actually contributes something. Also, when you intersect with people really frequently over short gaps that are spaced out by really long gaps of 'misunderstanding one another', then it's freaky and causality gets all tangled and you can sometimes get convinced that people can read your mind.

You may say cloud, but when I first read this article, I thought of the internet clouds, instead of water clouds. Now, this is only a small delta change between word choice. Imagine that a single sentence can be interpreted in millions of ways, and it can be continued on in conversation, in other sentences in millions of ways, and no one actually has a clue of what is being spoken about, but we all think we do. This is why I prefer to stare at my whiteboard with complex mathematics.
You probably saw Dell's 28'' 4K monitor, that uses a TN matrix.
No particular reason. The API currently involves importing `plugin.py` files and calling functions in them, which makes it a bit simpler, but it should be possible to bridge with other languages.
I've considered using Javascript for Automation, but there isn't a huge amount of documentation around it, so it hasn't been that valuable.
I think it is you that has missed the point. Its not about who gets the money, but whether the initiative would have survived at all in a corporate environment.

Sometimes the only way to jump over the heads of the paymasters is to do something for free.
I find this one of the most depressing articles I've read for a long time.

If the upper rate values are true, we're headed for an extinction event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event on the level of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in within centuries (75% species loss)

Already 41% of amphibians face extinction.
I think a large screen with large text at a greater distance is far more comfortable. Is there a good source for any reason why closer would be better?
Fair enough, pardon my previous skepticism, I hope things are going better for you now!
A 12 hour peak can definitely be described as uncomfortable. It was certainly interesting, at least. The DOX class of drugs are weird.
> good at math and passing math tests are orthogonal concepts.

What good is being good at math yet being unable to answer any questions about it? Would you get on board an airliner with a pilot who flunked the flight certification tests but assures you that he's really good at flying anyway?
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." - Fran Lebowitz
As usual, this is a philosophical "problem" caused by overanalysis of language. A cloud exists when someone can say "that's a cloud" and a listener thinks "yes, that is a cloud", or that fact is somehow meaningful to them in their life.

If you're a pilot, a cloud is a way to talk about something that reduces your visibility and causes turbulence. If you aren't carrying an umbrella, a cloud may be a sign you're about to get wet. The fact that these phenomena share the name "cloud" is only meaningful to the extent that they arise from the same sort of physical processes. But trying to rigidly assign a particular arrangement of physical processes to a single entity "cloud" leads to the nonsense you see here.

Nobody using the word "cloud" cares about this assignment. They care about whether there'll be turbulence, or whether they're likely to get wet, or whether the cloud looks like a bunny rabbit or whatever. The solution to the paradox is to realize that not all concepts are analyzable to this degree, and that that's OK.
I used to take a lot of psychadelics, I don't anymore as there's nothing left to learn from them in my humble opinion, for myself anyway. I experienced sensory disturbances for a couple years afterwards, only every now and then -- but I then remember experiencing those same disturbances as a teenager in various circumstances. I agree, taking psychadelics can make you more aware of your mind and senses, and this is what I experienced.
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> "the professional compiler engineer dialect of English is not very approachable to the layman."

We compiler guys do that on purpose in order to keep our salaries high!
> There is purescript but its a large layer over javascript and even a simple hello world results in a 2000 LOC compilation of javascript.

This really depends on which compilation route you take. `psc-make` will include all of the Prelude and compile to CommonJS modules, which can result in quite a bit of code, but `psc` will trim out all unused functions, and should result in about 10 LOC for Hello World.
The pattern-matching, actors, and pipeline operator seem like they were inspired by Elixir. Was that a conscious source of ideas or just stuff you came across elsewhere and thought was good?
In NZ now, the manufacturer needs to be able to prove their drug is safe before it can be 'okayed' by the gov. Saves us from the shitty artificial cannabinoids that was causing so much trouble. It's odd, considering there's so many people selling quality Marijuana everywhere...

I just wish we could follow what Colorado has done.
> And tried to get Intel to consider these "Unix workstation" things and they couldn't see past the risk of harming their Microsoft relationship.

and by not listening they made how many billions?
What about bacon is a problem exactly?

The latest research indicates sodium and fat are nowhere near as harmful as recently thought, and that high calorie + high carb diets are the biggest culprits by far.

Which makes perfect sense. The obesity problem in America skyrocketed with the expansion not of fat and sodium and bacon consumption - bacon had been consumed in large quantities for decades prior to the obesity boom - but with the extreme increases in sugar consumption, carb consumption, and sedentary lifestyles.

I'd argue bacon should be tax free, because it's far healthier than what most Americans are eating day to day. We should encourage its consumption, for it's low calorie, low carb, low sugar and high protein - which is exactly what we should be encouraging.
> It's interesting to realize that it did require human experimentation in order to discover, though.

Yeah, in hindsight it is, but if we try to remember history of pretty much every discovery — it all actually required some human experimentation. Everything starts from accidentally noticing something — something unknown and thus potentially risky. I remember how funny it sounded back then in school when somebody was telling about Volta checking if there is electricity by putting wires in his own ears. Because, — yeah, who does that! — right? But back then there was no other way to tell! (Of course voltage must have been really low, but still, I find it quite demonstrative.)

I like to think that this actually is the essence of science: doing apparently stupid things and foolishly risking even your own health because of sheer curiosity.
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Yes, they should do everything over HTTPS. I assure you they're moving in that direction, but they have thousands of pages and many different rendering technologies to deal with (after 20 years, some cruft and fragmentation is par for the course).

However, this article insinuates that HTTPS is enough to hide from the government. HTTPS only protects data in transit. If the big internet companies are complicit in leaking user data to the government (as Snowden showed) then HTTPS isn't going to be useful in that regard.
Sounds like a normal interview.
I pass no judgement on whether it is or it isn't a "Hush drug for the poor," but why can't it be both?
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One of the smartest people I've known had a long-standing interest in this area -- e.g. coming up with his own grow units for magic mushrooms.

He didn't just want to trip. When he took on the interest, he became a veritable encyclopedia on mushrooms, of various sorts and in general.

This was also back many years before the current "Maker" trend. I guess you could call him a prototype, or an example of a constant -- there has always been a certain number of these highly intelligent free-thinkers and builders.

I was never and am not into drugs. Getting to know him, however, did make my take a closer look at re-evaluate much of the simplistic "drugs are bad" indoctrination I'd encountered and been force fed growing up.

Just as life and current circumstances have taught me to more carefully re-evaluate other tropes such as "paying one's dues" and the "self-made man [person]".

I'm reminded of decades of research into cannabis severely stunted, so I read, by government policy and laws. "It's bad" and "because we say so" does not comport well with open and full-ranging scientific inquiry.
The potential of Emacs comes from the huge number of excellent third-party extensions not from the ability to evaluate lisp code in the scratch buffer. Many of these extensions are not very visible. Did you know that there is a really powerful PDF viewer for Emacs that has extensive support for annotations? It took me a long time to find out about it although reading and annotating PDFs is an important part of my work, which is why I did a fair amount of research into the topic. For some reason, this PDF viewer doesn't have a proper web page or documentation. I had to read the code in order to find out what its capabilities are. I leave it as an exercise to you to find out which extension I'm talking about. Perhaps that makes clearer what I meant when I wrote that Emacs is hiding its potential.
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