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They're mainly just warnings stemming from dependencies—it compiles just fine in Xcode 6.1.1 after running git submodule update --init and force-unwrapping a bunch of optionals.

Interestingly, it appears to do everything BUT display web pages at this point! Looks very preliminary.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o5kmot2fg6i7wmx/Screenshot%202014-...
Javascript has sweetJS. It isn't lisp, but it's about as close as most infix languages can get (with the exception of Dylan).

The let in ES6 cannot be expressed in the same terms as a let in lisp. Mozilla proposed that kind of let with the let block ('let (<assignments>) { <statements> }').

The issue is that other idiots (in some quest to turn JS into Java or C#) decided that a block scoping kluge was a better. After all, it makes interoperability harder (old code using var), makes scoping rules implicit (blocks without let are still bound to function), adds unnecessary cognitive overhead (leading to more bugs as code gets harder to reason about and visually parse) and generally adds a whole new set of ways for new and old JS programmers to screw up.
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Yes, Zyring will be primarily online, unless you choose to meet with your mentors in person.

Our primary focus is on hands-on projects, not so much teaching you how to actually do the basics. So our collection of resources will be curated from the web as we believe there is an abundance of premium level education material already online for free.

Does that answer your question?
It's a huge issue on mobile. Multiple rendering engines requiring the world to write software to a spec is what prevents people from writing code dependent on a particular browser or, in this case, a rendering engine. You see it all the time in the mobile web: plenty of sites just plain don't work when using other rendering engines.
I feel like whenever I read discussions about this on HN it's all about the JS engine.

Chrome was on webkit but used V8. And unless something has changed all non-safari browsers and webviews use an inferior JS engine.

Edit: (Something has changed, WKWebView now has the Nitro JS Engine, cool beans)
Ethics are an invention of the human mind, they are relative and therefore really hard to understand. From a pragmatic point of view the best way to understand ethics would be getting deeper into neuroscience and understanding at higher levels what do the chemicals in our brain activating synapses do in order to have effect in this thing called "ethics". Machines are also an invention of the human mind but the difference is that they use circuits, algorithms and other stuff that we can control and understand perfectly. Adding such an "unknown" characteristic to such a "known" thing might sound like something incompatible, but it's actually an important question.

I strongly believe that machines are not a suplement, but a complement to the human race. However, I don't ignore that really smart people who I admire such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are warning us about the future of AI.

In order to make machines the perfect complement (not suplemenet) we need to grow their capabilities in a smart, sustainable way. I think this article is making us ask a really important question. If this question is answered, it will be a great step towards achieving the perfect human-machine complement.
> As we've seen with the attempts to discredit Snowden with his past as a college-dropout.

I haven't heard that one, actually. It's probably the same anti-intellectual assholes who will praise e.g. Gates or Zuckerberg, et al, for dropping out of college to do some 'real work' too, rather than staying in the ivory tower or whatever.
They are an amazing company and they still party like it's 1999. Obscene source code is the least of their transgressions against good taste and reason. Google youtube for stainless christmas parties... and current codebase is just as sweary.
Not sure why Bootstrap bloat is a problem if it's just going to be an internal app. I'd rather go with a more familiar, and well known framework, and not have the overhead of learning yet another framework (not to mention others who would maintain or contribute to the internal app would have to pick up this new framework)

That being said, I do like the look and feel of Flakes. Also, given that graphs and charts are key to internal business apps, would be awesome if there was some easy charting integration / capability.
I disabled JS and the page looks fine. Either way, this seems like a complaint unrelated to the content of the page, your personal preference, while valid, doesn't make this content any less interesting.
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The one I've found that I like the most so far is:
http://designshack.net/articles/css/make-it-snow-on-your-web...

But I'll have to add start and stop buttons with javascript to toggle the classes on and off.
I suspect there is no theoretically perfect solution to CAPTCHA. Bot must get good at emulating user and software must get better at identified users. None of our interaction with computer are non-emulatable so the war would be indefinitely ongoing.

But what we can do is to make it expensive for bot to emulate user. One way to do this is creating ID system which requires some form of payment and thus creating an ID and expensive proposition. For example, Amazon can make their user account as open ID for logins and provide the target system a flag IsVerifiedPurchaser. Payments don't have be strickly in direct monetary forms also. For example, Facebook can estimate ad revenue generated by an user so far and provide some flag as to whether user is active and trustable as not being a bot.
Should note that R wasn't really designed for "programmer" programmers. It's largely used by statisticians, analysts, etc, so a lot of the syntax will vary from a C based language.
A windows install disk is $90. Between "I can't use my operating system" and "I wish I were using Windows", did it not occur to her that one solution to her problems would be to install Windows on her machine?
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HN is a technical news site, and technical commentary on the aspects of given sites are fairly common.

I don't expect all here to agree with my viewpoints, or even agree with the statements I make (though I'll reassert: the page failed to load until I allowed JS temporarily from the primary domain). But I'll comment on:

⚫ Sites which fail without JS

⚫ Sites with horribly broken UX/UI

⚫ Sites with poor contrast: http://www.contrastrebellion.com/

⚫ Sites with poor privacy or other features

⚫ Sites with crippled access (e.g., Quora or Scribd)

⚫ Sites with broken or unusable multimedia (I've just spent more minutes than I care trying to view a WashPo-related science video...)

Thanks for your kind thoughts and concern.
It's a bit sad that Firefox is caving in and shipping a browser using WKWebView. The rationale is that by using WKWebView they now get Nitro, and they have to "go where the users are" -- but a few years ago, it was a lot less clear that Android would be more prevalent than iOS.

Also, iOS seems like a fairly hostile environment for 3rd-party browsers since it's not possible to change the system browser -- that's probably why mobile Safari has such a large usage share on iOS.
Well it's obviously doable — both the JVM and CLR are equivalent to Turing machines, so it follows that they can run the same set of programs. It just, uh, might be non-trivial. :)
And that's why we use HN.

Moore's law is showing this asymptotic behavior because we focused on improoving hardware for so long, apprently leaving everything else pretty much behind. If the correlation coefficient towards Moore's law is the only metric that defines if this is an industrial revolution or not, then this guy is 100% right. However, there are other technologies: Biotech, clean, software, etc.

We do live in an age with higher distractions and therefore lower productivity, but the true question should be hwo has human welfare increased thanks to technology.
The same can be said about a lot of embedded projects. The fact is they all have custom hardware, which require custom drivers, etc.
To me writing tutorials for teaching R these days is same as writing tutorials for Fortran (and I'm sure Fortran still has some nice goodies not available elsewhere). It misdirecting people eager to learn something to a wrong thing. As you can see in this article, every 3rd section of R book or tutorial is often dedicated in gotachas to deal with. We have iPython, Notebook, sci-kitlearn, numpy etc and massive number of R-packages already migrated. I hope there is little need to take trouble of learning R for most people new to it.
Its true that before then, Polish, Irish, Italian (German not so much, AFAIK, but possibly) were ethnic identities often viewed as distinct from -- and frequently discriminated against by -- the dominant white-identifying group (in the same what whites of Hispanic origin have continued to be since), but white racial identity existed before then.
Not linking the original location is a fair point and I've fixed that. --Immo
Reducing a network problem to a file problem (fuzzing)
I started working at Microsoft in 2007, and so have never been exposed to Winforms. It seems archaic to WPF, which can do almost anything. I don't bother with high level WPF widgets however, and mostly just roll my own because it is so easy to do (plus my interests usually require custom widgets).
I suspect a lot of us had the ideal, and it got beaten out of you somewhere during your first job.

In a sense, Woz was incredibly lucky to be able to success that early, and never lost the childhood sense of wanting perfection and playful. And as someone else mentioned, Jobs is also a perfection-seeking type of personality, which helped alot - most of the "business guys" nowadays couldn't careless about that. At best you'd hope that your business partner care about how the product looks like, let alone the code behide it.

It's hard to keep your head down to produce good code, when the business side constantly remind you that customers don't really give a shit about the code, they just want it to run.
Those are all very important comparisons (and I would add that both Lua and JS got the global by default thing wrong0. I would note that ES6 requires proper tail calls and that trampolining can accomplish tail call elimination (tail call elimination is different than proper tail calls).

The major issue to me is time. I know quite a few languages, but have only mastered a couple. JS is everywhere and the browser makes sure this will be the case for a long time.

The issue is that these advantages do not outweigh the ubiquitous nature of JavaScript. If I already need to learn all of those JS quirks, why learn Lua too?
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I did not realize that the email is not publicly displayed. I have put in the about section now.

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Fair enough, my main point was that it looks like it loads exactly the same with JS disabled compared to without it being disabled, my additional commentary was tangential, but if we're all complaining about stuff, can't I too? :)
Perhaps I had low glucose when making the post and impulsively did so vs. better fact checking.
The main one for me is portability to mobile devices. I've recently built a web project with python/flask where the meat of the logic was done in serverside JS in V8. This needed to be offline capable on mobile, so when the time for that came we only had to port the Flask shell and DB logic to Obj-C while the renderer / update mechanism etc. would just work in JavascriptCore.
Submitter here. Sorry about the layout problems. I hate usability issues like these and I just did some quick fixes. Should work a bit better on narrower screens.

I was more excited about the content and getting that right that I just didn't test the layout before posting (I have large monitors so my defaults were not geared toward small screen sizes). I had an eye exam today so I could literally only now see these comments since my pupils were dilated.

I hope you can now get to some of the quantum mechanics stuff.
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Welfare is Y Combinator for the masses
It's great when politicians show a spine after being unelected. We should unelect them more often.

The attention Wyden gets as being the anti-surveillance guy in Congress says more about Congress than it does about Wyden. This guy sat on the Intelligence Committee for years, and knew exactly what was going on, and although even he probably learned a thing or two from the Snowden leaks, it's a sure bet he learned a hell of a lot less than the rest of us. Yet, before that, he did precisely fuck-all about any of it. He's still done about fuck-all, besides sort of vaguely indicating that he might exploit some Constitutional provisions to reveal a few more secrets on the Senate floor before leaving office. I'm not holding my breath.
Without entering the details (which I don't have anyway, I'm not involved in this version of Firefox), yeah, it's very preliminary.
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That could also be overturned by a future congress
Is there any anti-competitive laws they'd have to adhere to to take away that "advantage"?
> since waiters aren't tipped, they don't care so much about the efficient part, sometimes even the cordial part.

I would say this could be due more to other factors apart from tipping.

I don't find hospitality customer service any ruder in Australia and we're not a tipping country.
The desire to control or at least oversee the money that you earn is, as far as I know, not a specifically libertarian desire. Do you not understand the desire?
When Firefox was version 0.9 (2003?), I said it would take a large chunk out of IE's 95% market share and IE would become an also ran browser. I also said, later, that iPhones and iPads would take over mobile and dominate the internet and Google would be more important than Microsoft on a day-to-day basis.

In both cases I was made fun of and downvoted into oblivion.

So listen to what I'm saying now. In three to five years, none of you will be using .NET anything. Well, some of you will be maintaining legacy stuff but, new things? No. Especially in five years, no one will think of doing any new project in .NET anything.

As I said back in 2003, write it down. Check back with me. I'll see you then.
In regards to (3), you don't... people have made functional containers with the scratch or busybox images that are less than 10mb in size.
It is not 10^7 FPS. It is 10^11 FPS.

And they do collect that scattered light on a streak camera - that performs shearing operation in the temporal domain (camera moves during capture). Without it it would be impossible to reproject the data into these 10^11 FPS, you would only have your regular 10^7 FPS, achievable by CCD/CMOS.

edit. The temporal / spatial resolution probably can be increased by using larger sensor :) & Anyone wants to hack a DIY version of it? Take a Lytro camera, place it on the piezo actuator, do some fancy math ;)
https://bit.ink/rss :)
I just measured, about 27" from nose to
screen. With my chair, where my keyboard
is, and, then, where my screen is, all about
as close together as I can get them, that
27" is about it. Sure, I lean back in my
chair and have my feet up. Sure, with
a book, the distance is less.

But, really, it doesn't hurt to use larger
fonts -- just use more space vertically.
Don't try to make so much use of the
horizontal dimension -- that's the one
that is more constrained. Or, when
reading, it's easy to scroll down
but a pain to scroll left and right once
for each line read, when the scrolling
is available.

If have lines with no more than 60 characters,
then Ctrl+ can adjust the font size, and
horizontal scrolling can put the 60 characters
all on the visible screen at the same time --
then just scroll down as read.

For good UI/UX, mostly I don't care;
instead I just want to be able to use
the Web page and, in particular, read the
text.
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Reading this thread almost leaves me the impression there's room for a rideshare service that matches riders and drivers based on Myers-Briggs type...
Good end, to a great set of lectures.
Thank you.
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Well, first, I'm talking about DrRacket the IDE here, not the Racket language. For context, at the moment I'm just using DrRacket in Racket mode as I try to bash out naive turnip-truck Scheme to generate some XHTML. DrRacket is certainly not bad, and it's perfectly usable for my purposes, but it has obvious shortcomings.
They have no other choice; Apple won't accept apps with custom web rendering engines.
Almost an "architectural easter egg". I'm sure there must be other prominent examples of such things. Are there?
Why not just "flynn"? Should I really be typing "docker" before every command for the sake of someone's branding?
Unless Lyft didn't charge for rides then regardless of how they describe it, fundamentally it is still a pay-per-ride service (i.e. taxi) and still subject to the taxi industry regulations (which I don't necessarily agree with but exist nonetheless).

I 'm curious if companies like these could legally operate by not charging by time or distance but instead operating as a private club wherein someone purchases a membership that grants them free time or mileage (up to a certain limit) or some system based on pricing sort of like how NYC MetroCards are set up).
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I would love to see that.
There are efforts at Java/CLR runtime interop
> It's a bit sad that Firefox is caving in and shipping a browser using WKWebView.

They don't have a choice, I'm glad to see them do something pragmatic here. On iOS you can ship a WKWebView browser or nothing. Given how big mobile has become it's sad that it took them 6+ years to do this. Lots of people use Chrome on iOS but that only came out 2 years ago. It could have been Firefox.
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It's worth checking out the new version. All the same old skool fun. It's lost none of its ... 'charm'

http://www.carmageddon.com/reincarnation
Bootstrap bloat has little to do with it, looking at the docs. This gives you a bunch of components for specific data views; Bootstrap is far more general, requiring you to create your own components out of Bootstrap's lower-level CSS. It's a specifically geared framework vs a general one.
At my previous job, I made $25k less per year than the idiot who nearly exposed us to RFI risks before I looked over his code.

Developers are developers. If you're going out of your way to hire extremely untalented people, because they're cheap, you're going to get owned.

If you're hiring people who understand their own craft, you can get a junior developer for under $70k and a senior for under $100k. Unless you're in SF in which case multiply everything by 2 or 3.
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well, they also say things like this, to be fair:
http://view.lyftmail.com/?j=fe5012797d6400747012&m=fe6915707...
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I don't really understand most of your comment. You seem to be reading a heck of a lot more into my comment than what is actually there.

By "my money," I only mean money which my employer agreed to pay me for performing certain tasks. Obviously the philosophy of property rights can get really complicated, but I'm not making some deep philosophical argument. I believe this phrase in this context is pretty standard and likely to be understood by the vast majority of readers: it's money that my employer agreed to pay me if I perform certain tasks.

I never mentioned the word "steal" in my comment. I'm not very interested in a semantic argument over that word, so I'll just describe my taxes very simply: if I had the option to keep everything that's deducted from my paycheck without facing the high likelihood of legal trouble, I would. I'm not making a moral argument about "stealing" or anything else, I'm just stating my preferences.

The stuff about value being subjective and money being potentially devalued through broader economic circumstances is true, but entirely irrelevant. I would still choose to keep my entire paycheck if given the option.

I disagree with your description of my preferences as "a knee-jerk feeling." It's not that, by a long shot.
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I would never downvote such a great comment, sorry.
Forking is the way of the BSDs. The BSD style is to develop the userland along with the kernel. Thus where Linux has multiple distro families BSD has full userland and kernel forks.
A nuclear explosion please.
We are creating Zyring (http://zyring.com) exactly for that purpose, so people can actually put their learnings from courses into practice by implementing hands-on projects. We will have a Frontend development track, in which JavaScript will be utilized.
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Note that they seem to be running a sample size of one. To add an anecdote, my own 840 Pro, after relatively little use, died completely and without warning one random day.
Well, it appears that in both cases you were wrong. IE still has higher market share than Firefox, with Chrome being the clear leader it seems (though some usage stats may show otherwise).

Even today, Microsoft is far far more important than Google for their users - not necessarily developers. If Google disappeared tomorrow, yes it would make it a bit difficult to work in the short term, but people will manage. If Windows / Offce were to say, vanish tomorrow, then millions of businesses will just collapse and cannot function at all.
'Good news day' decimates website's readership
Speaking of the iPhone, input forms in iPhone apps are more or less grid style.
I've taken Lyft a handful of times, and in my experience, it seems like it's only the new drivers that are awkward about this---after that, they usually do a good job of reading my body language and responding appropriately. I think I'd taken Lyft 5 or 6 already times before the first driver ever awkwardly initiated an actual fist bump.
It's funny when you work in a corporate environment of any sort and you read this and you realize that openness is the only way to be safe. Lack of transparency lets people hide corrupt activities which degrade the organization at some point.
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License is likely irrelevant, this would count as parody. Also, why so serious? :)
How can Apple get away with that? I am genuine interested! Sounds pretty much like the same thing Microsoft did with Internet Explore back in the day, except they didn't force you to use their rendering engine, but shipped the OS with their browser as default?
it's unfortunate that the market has spoken - a studio earns more money doing IAP than traditional selling. I don't like IAP model either, but because it simply out-earns the old model, it's either do it or die for most studios.

I really wish more people would paid for a game the traditional way.
I look forward to watching a movie of photons getting trapped in quantum wells during photosynthesis sometime soon!
I mean with all their experience from CD root kit. You think they know how to prevent hackers.
The day has come when I can deploy my .NET apps in docker containers.
fifa 99 is what started it all. fatboy slim
Duktape seems to be based on the same principle of sqlite3. Distributed as one big c file. Really cool.

Another note: Try to do fib(33) in duk, it takes 9s, while lua interpreted mode takes under 2s. So no doubt it's still got a long way to go in terms of performance.
What's the deal with Ruby GC and Copy-on-write