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What? That's what this post says:

> we will also be upgrading to recent versions of the Mono C# compiler, base class libraries, and runtime for use in the editor

> We will continue to use the Mono C# compiler (and perhaps later, Roslyn). We will continue to use the Mono class libraries. All currently supported features and 3rd party libraries which work with Mono AOT should continue to work with IL2CPP. We are only seeking to provide a replacement for the Mono VM and AOT compiler, and will keep on leveraging the wonderful Mono Project.
No one said animals are not good enough to do it. It is not homo-centrism, it is consciousness-centrism if you wish to name it.
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Regardless of whether zero rating is a violation of network neutrality in a legal sense or not, it is in any case discriminatory.

There are over 800 telcos in the world. Even if zero rating was free to the app/service provider, just negotiating with each and every telco would be a huge burden.

Zero rating is, however, neither free nor available to all app/service providers. Thus zero rating creates both a toll booth and a gatekeeper who gets to discriminate against app/service providers and pick winners and loosers.

Zero rating is a pox upon the Internet and should be killed with fire, regardless of any perceived short term benefit to some end users. In the long term zero rating is always toxic.
Like everything else, the more you get into something, the more serious and deep you think it is. But for most people it isn't deep. I'm a bit negative but sushi is something I enjoy standing, seating, at home, in a restaurant, with a fork, with chopsticks, with salty soy sauce, with sweet soy sauce, etc... Don't be a snob, just enjoy the food you like the way you like it.
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GNU, of course.
> The last de-facto LTS compiler we have had was gcc 2.7.2.1, and it is too old to compile modern C and C++ code.

Wont any LTS compiler be "too old" quickly?
TypeScript support in XamarinStudio and MonoDevelop
I authored this report. Glad to take any questions.
January 1st 2016
The name lives on in python "wheels".
Common stuff between Linux and wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside.
This sounds similar to 'z', except z remembers your common directories automatically.

https://github.com/rupa/z
I think there are a lot of people in our government who fit that description. I don't believe that explanation makes sense in this particular instance.
Think Stats – Exploratory Data Analysis in Python
I'm thinking about implementing in either CoffeeScript or Python.
The book is released under Creative Commons and is free to download.

Link to pdf: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats2/thinkstats2.pdf
Tales from the Trenches: I was SWATed
It's not just the fact that they're low-cost loans. They're almost zero-risk loans (you can not declare bankruptcy on student loans), which benefits lenders and encourages schools to increase prices.
Yeah! now as people haven't responded on the thread, I'll have to march around Chronic.

By the way! Chronic is not a Probabilistic Parser by definition.
Except that quantum mechanics does say there is "underlying stuff"; it's called the wave function. And it's in no way mental.

I'd like to recommend the QM explanation on lesswrong. Unlike most other explanations out there, it attempts to take away, rather than add, mystery.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/pc/quantum_explanations/
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I'm from India too, live there presently, and what follows is anecdotal as well.

I first heard of lactose intolerance when my son became lactose intolerant at age 1.5. I also discovered then that the pharmacies were stocked with lactose-free milk substitutes (soy milk was comparatively harder to get hold of). They'd apparently been stocking this stuff for years.

More surprising, the first time I heard of a nut allergy was when a friend (around the same age as yours truly, born sometime in the decade of The Emergency) said he had one.
It may have had an effect in the long run, but i think that in the short run the Marshall plan did more by getting Europe back on its collective feet.
Ever Felt the Pain of Selling Out Too Soon?
And here is a JS x86 disassembler: https://github.com/indutny/disasm . It is incomplete, but shows how the basics works.
Having looked at this, I presumed this is the start of a money laundering operation ... Maybe. It seems a quick way to get cash into a semi legit form. But it seems pretty dumb.
Ask HN: Newbie app development ideas
I am learning windows universal app development (windows + windows phone).So far I have created calculator, vehicle fuel tracker and a basic mapping application. What are some real apps ideas that help me in learning and later I can upload them to the store.
Complains about the science behind existing fasting regimes, then combines his fast with additional exercise.

FWIW, 5:2 has worked for me. 10KG in 9 weeks with only positive side effects to date. It feels sustainable. Would recommend.
The Elegant Universe contains the best introduction to special relativity and quantum mechanics for a non-specialist audience that I've ever come across. Not modern but hard to see what could be more mind-blowing if it's new to you.
This is flippant and not very HN, but I did upvote it. I get more nuisance and spam calls than I get legitimate calls, and that's with getting on any do-not-call register I can.

I pay $40-50/month for the privilege of getting mostly time-wasting phone calls at my office and it's infuriating.
Caltech wants to equip phones with built-in 3D scanners
> The secret is that many elite colleges give such generous financial aid that only the extremely wealthy are paying full freight. But it still makes the college looks good to have an astronomically high sticker price.

Unfortunately, this is not at all true for grad school. I'm from India and a large swathe of my friends from college are studying in the US without any sort of aid.
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I was please to see that the list contains the two science books I recommend to everyone.

The Elegant Universe (1999) Brian Greene
The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins
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> The ecologist's "museum earth" view, that picks some moment in time and strives to preserve or restore all ecologies as an exact replica of that state (ignoring the red queen effect that probably makes this focus on "sustainability" itself unsustainable).

It's worse than that. If I read the literature correctly, 15,000 years ago, North America had elephants (mammoths, mastodons), giant sloths, llamas, and horses[1], now all gone. And it had a much greater variety of some categories of animals that are not quite all gone: large cats, pronghorns.

When the first European explorers looked at North America, they thought they were seeing a pristine wilderness, looking more or less as it always had. But they were really seeing wildly out of balance ecologies still reeling from the recent loss of most of their large animals.

Basing wildlife management strategies on the idea that what the early explorers found was a sustainable steady state is a very problematic idea.

Also, I would really like to see a living mammoth. :-)

[1] The wild horses in North America today are an old-world species that was imported by Europeans not too many centuries ago.
The article seems interesting but I am afraid I do not understand quantum physics well enough to understand it fully - could someone more knowledgeable please try to explain it like I am five? How would quantum mechanical perception of the world for common people look like?
Artsy it is.
Similarily I like to eat sandwiches by cutting them up into pieces with a fork/knife. I don't think it's so much hipster though, seeing as "finger food" is quite common.

On those metal chopsticks though, I couldn't disagree more. Ever used them for noodles? It just doesn't grab stuff as well as the wooden ones.
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I'm a bit confused about what you're objecting to. Isn't this just a standard sponsored article, the sponsoring having no relation to the content?
Firefox. No google stuff for me.
DM's Esoteric Programming Languages – LenPEG
I think you shouldn't take these specific rules as a general advise.
Don't use your hands directly untill you are sure your hands clean. Even most Japanese don't do that.
And a rules imposed by a restaurant may be acceptable but a rules imposed by you to your acompanies are often uncomfortable.
Japanese calls such kind of people "x-bugyo(奉行)" (e.g. nabe-bugyo, sushi-bugyo) as irony. bugyo means a person in a high position in Japan's feudal period.
I thought it was a serious introduction for foreigners for the first few minutes until I settled on it being sarcasm, which is heavily punctuated towards the end.
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I agree with you about purecss and I also like Skeleton. I had a look at the Web-starter-kit page and have never been more confused about a sites design. I checked twice I had not zoomed in to 200%, and I could not follow the page structure at all.

I do hate the look of Material Design as well, so maybe it's just me and Google that need to learn how to communicate.
I did not mean that it's best option. I meant current defacto command line minimum is cleartext.
>I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. As I understand things, Mono is still keeping its runtime - JIT, garbage collector (the release notes here mention optimizations to SGen), etc.

So? Who will still use those, if there's a fully supported MS based (+ some open source effort for some edges) alternative?
That's a 15+ years off slogan from the Desktop/Browser wars era...

Nowhere near as relevant or enlightening as you think it is in 2015 (wasn't much of an analysis in 1998 either, but still...)
What Boys Do When They're Home Alone
y? PM's need a lot of social skills to protect engineers from a lot of the politics.
I think it's more like a testament to anti-trust systems not working as they are supposed to.
People who want to learn some details about this upcoming release before it happens?
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You don't have a clue about what a ponzi scheme is if you think bitcoin is one.

Whether some people who invested in bitcoin advocate for it, share similarities with other people who invested in other things and advocate for those other things, including pyramid schemes, is completely unrelated.
Great story. Perfecting a craft for a living is one of the greatest things in life.
I'll be impressed when Netflix finally opens up enough to allow it to work with Kodi without having to jump through mindless Chrome hoops to make Netflix (barely) work with it.

Then again, Kodi already works great with pirated movies, maybe I should stop paying Netflix and just use what works minus all the needless hassle?
> But yeah, I think it's okay to say "it never really worked."

I don't. I mean yes mono <4.0 has a lot of problems, but it works well enough for me to shell out money for applications running on mono and be happy about it.
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J# definitely did not win. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp#Future_of_J.23
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Marijuana is a fat-soluble drug. When you start consuming it, it gets stored inside adipose (fat) cells in your body. When your body needs to burn some of that fat, the drug will get released. So you never really get off of it until months after you stop using it. In contrast, alcohol and its byproducts are quickly metabolized and leave your body in a few hours.

Neither alcohol nor pot is good for developing brains, but alcohol doesn't hang around. Pot does.

Alcohol is certainly a more "dangerous drug" in the sense that it's easier to overdose on it than pot. Of course, if that's our measure, paracetemol (Tylenol) is more dangerous than either. It only takes a small amount of Tylenol to cause liver failure and death. And unlike alcohol, you probably won't throw up on an overdose.

Honestly I get tired of these articles comparing pot and alcohol. They always miss the point. Yes, they're both drugs, but that's about where the similarity ends. Pot is a lifestyle drug because it hangs around in your body. Alcohol is something that you can take or not take on each day as you choose. It would be a lot better to legalize MDMA, or maybe some MDMA analogue that didn't have the neurotoxicity issues. Incoming downvotes from pot advocates in 3, 2, 1...
I explain quantum physics (or at least the underlying principles) to myself this way:

1. Quantum fluctuations are the random number generator function of the universe. Without which, the universe will be utterly uniform and lacking detail. All detail (or information) is born through quantum fluctuations.

2. The universe has a finite resolution -- you zoom in enough and you reach a point where you 'see' the 'pixels' of the universe and see no further. This applies to matter, energy, space and time.

I may be oversimplifying or even understanding it wrong, but to me, denying either (1) or (2) eventually leads to a reductio ad absurdum -- 1) a universe that is a uniform, featureless soup, or 2) infinite information density.

* As a side-note, denying (1) also results in denying free will -- all future states of the universe becomes classically predictable, including the thoughts and behaviors of conscious beings in it.

EDIT: sorry, I know you asked about perception. I've never quite been able to explain waveform collapse to myself. Intuitively, it feels like the universe does lazy evaluation -- all variables are in flux until read?
Thanks to you and awhitworth! Very interesting stuff, kept me reading. (And soon searching to understand some of the ideas. And thinking of Linus's puzzle about `call` being faster than a `push` before a jump. Seems to be one of those cases where higher-level abstractions can be optimized better than lower-level ones. I suppose because lower-level ones are too general-purpose, while higher-level ones are constrained.)
I would say quantitative easing has a lot to do too. It didn't create the broad inflation everyone expected. Instead some sectors went into high inflation: housing, stocks, tuition fees, etc.
Closing in
In the generation teenagers live in nowadays isn't at all what it used to be. People underestimate the power one has over another.
Where being forced into a box by society because people believe in higher powers.. They believe that one isn't eqaul to another. Just because someone is "more equipped" for a situation there greater.
Society labels individuals from an outside appearance.
Because that's the generation that we live in, they care about what's visible. They never care to see what's inside the outside appearance. Children are getting bullied because they want people to see what's not always visible to the human eye. So they feel as if there stuck unable to contribute something so beautiful and unique that no one cares to see. They feel as if there traits aren't compatible with society check list. So they stop , because they feel as if the "higher" power has won. They stop caring about those beautiful and unique traits so they think if they can change those traits society will be more excepting. We change ourselves because we're tired of being put into a "box" we're tired of being classified as documents.
I'm tired of getting told the dreams I dream of are too "BIG" for society's standards. That its incompatible for the generation I live in. I'm tired of feeling like a closed case no one what's to re-open.

I'm Haven Knott and I DON'T want to be defined by society's checklist.
What kind of sorcery is this? :|
Throwing TypeScript away and making room for this shiny new thing
It was not a problem for nearly 45 years since epoch. Shell is not intended for high level data processing.

Also there are repls or shells intended to have common data structures for input and output. (look into powershell)
info itself is merely annoying (to me).

But the one thing I hate about info is that they often change the "see also" near the end of a man page from a list of similar or related commands that you might want to also read, to an invitation to use the info chapter for that command. Aarrrggghhh!

man less
...
SEE ALSO
lesskey(1)

man ls
...
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for ls is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and ls programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'ls invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

Why hijack a useful section? Why not just add a "SEE INFO" section?
It's like doing a paper on whether buying Facebook stock or buying Gold or buying foreign currency (i.e. the entire, gigantic, Forex market) is a ponzi scheme. It's simply not. No need to do a paper on that.

People saying bitcoin is a ponzi scheme is simply ignorance on the topic. That's not a cuss word by the way, just literal ignorance, the lack of knowledge. And hearing from them is like hearing from someone who thought dinosaurs and humans walked the earth simultaneously at one point, just completely wrong and with no basis in evidence. But easy to throw around as a truth in some communities that care not to explore the topic properly and thoroughly.

You'll also not find any government or bank reports on bitcoin being a ponzi scheme. And most modern governments have put a task force on it, most regulatory bodies like say the SEC, and most central banks like say the Bank of England. Bitcoin being a ponzi scheme hasn't come up. For example the World Bank released a report last year saying it wasn't a ponzi scheme.

Thing is, bitcoin has at various times in its life been a speculative bubble. Just like stock of Internet companies, housing etc. That bubble can pop (it did in 2014, from $1200 or so down to below $200), and it can continue trading at a more sensible price (about $250 today). It's inherent to bitcoin because it had to start at 0 value, publicly, from day 1, when it had 0 owners and 0 users and 0 investors. And that eventually grew to millions of owners, users, investors, meaning that it grew by a few million x in the past 6 years. That drove up the price. And if you see a price momentum, there will always be times that people buy because they predict the price going up, which reinforces the momentum through speculation to beyond its supposed value. That's when you get a bubble, and then the bubble pops. And 1-2 years later it starts all over again. Over time, as bitcoin becomes more used, its growth rate slows down, and these insane bubbles happen less and with less magnitude.

So if you want to write a paper on how bitcoin has had several speculative bubbles, it's probably true. Just look at the past few years. But a ponzi? It's simply not, it's a ridiculous claim.
What I think is far more interesting that the CSS/JS framework, is their framework for Hack, Facebook's statically typed PHP derivative: https://github.com/titon/framework
Maybe they just got news of its existence.
If you want high quality man pages go look at openBSD base, truly exceptional.

Even then, man pages nowadays are massive compared to what they were intended to be, complexity is the bane of all software.
Could this be done with jpeg and gif compression?

For example, could Adobe's apps export jpegs laced with patterns within the compressed pixels that could be traced back to the owner of the app?

And, has anyone checked for this behavior?
Thanks, I've been using it for two months - I know how it works.
I take the "don't check voice mail ever, and disable it if possible" [1] approach to phone ownership. These are broadly incompatible in the same society.

[1] Oddly, on my last phone, with T-mobile, disabling voice mail wasn't possible through their internet account management. I did manage to get my voice mail disabled, but I had to call them and complain until they agreed to disable it.
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The real reason college tuition costs so much=because they can!

(Most schools found that students/families will find ways to
come up with the money. These schools will blame everyone, and everything, but they still raise tuition. When questioned, they brag about the scholarships. I understand some state schools, but really question schools like Haarvard
with a billion/year coming in through endowments.)
It seems way more stupid to admit to abetting counterfeiters by not "mak[ing] a big deal out of it" than taking a harmless photo in the vault.
> the rulers remained earls, probably because 'count' was too similar to a rude word.

Shakespear's plays often have characters talking about "country matters", as well...