skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Esperanto is a "failure" only if help up to standards and goals that are completely unrealistic.

Compare English: Britain spread it throughout a global empire for centuries. America is the world's fourth most populous country, possibly the most powerful and prosperous country in the history of the world, and nearly entirely monolingual in English. India is the world's second most populous country, where English is the major language of intercommunication. Nigeria, the Philippines, and other large countries use English in an official capacity. English is now the dominant language of science, and increasingly the language of intercommunication in Europe.

And yet for all that power, prestige, and influence, English only has 1.2 billion first- and second-language speakers, and is far from the world's only interlanguage.

So by those standards, English is a "failure" as the world interlanguage.

Edit: To be sure, Esperantists can be pretty off-putting. They are nothing if not...enthusiastic!
Vampires: Biology and Evolution
> and they were at least convinced that restaurants do their dishes the same way - open the tap, rinse the dishes...

They are both right and wrong. Restaurants use the tap to wash food off of plates (no soap). Then they sanitize (not wash) the dishes with bleach, and minimal water.

> I'm still baffled ... with my coworkers to this day.

I hope you do not consider them representative of Israel. Israel has lots of people, with lots of opinions and ways of doing things. I get that they were who you knew there, but I hope you'll categorize them as "that's how they do it", not "that's how Israel does it".
I have to completely disagree. Generation GC beats malloc/free in the case of 'all objects allocated on the heap' when: sizeof(survivors) + cost of traversing survivors pointer fields + rewriting the remembered set < traversing malloc/free trees for allocation/freeing.

Freeing objects in Generational GC requires computing the transitive closure relation of the stack and any "global variable" for the set of objects in the generational allocation arena so that all live objects there can be identified. I. E. For the stack, all "Global" variables, and the set of marked cards/(The record of objects updated with old to new references) : Find all live objects, copy them into the next arena while rewriting references.

Oh, were write barriers that not mentioned? Generation GC requires write barriers. Every update through a pointer unless provably required by a compiler turns "a->b = c"; into "if(b is in generational region) { record update of b;} a->b = c".

If you want to be able to move objects arounds cheaply, writes through pointers transform into small subroutines. For some GCs, reads through pointers are also small subroutines.

And some Generational GCs do card marking over object marking. Let's traverse $CHUNKOFMEMORY on the probabilistic notion that if something was updated, something close by was updated. (Otherwise we can have Sequential Store Buffers which record exactly which objects were changed)

Stack allocation (either explicit or deduced) is probably the fastest method of object allocation there is. Generational GC is on average going to be fast but can suffer horrendous worst case scenarios unless you GC is designed/engineered to switch between thread local allocation arenas.

Full disclosure:
Despite my whining about GCs, I did do my Phd in them.
Privacy.

Fuck enumerating the apps that users have installed.

That's not what the API is for, and no user in their right mind would want that to happen.
Hard-g won, it's yet another name of an invention that got away from it's inventor. (See: the crapper)
Lucky! NYC's subway has complete radio silence.

But people in NYC know that the late party might not have cell phone coverage. Conventions adapt, life goes on.
!UNPOPULAR OPINION TIME!

I was triggered. I do my best to stay away from Apple altogether. I believe in a world where companies are shamed into oblivion for not allowing their software to run across all platforms.

Apple doesn't work for the people, they work for the shareholders. Since I don't own any shares I'm dirt under their feet.

A lot of people on HN like to talk about power and privilege but when it comes to companies like Apple they make any excuse for their blatant platform discrimination.
So why is this kosher? https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172069
You forgot the part where he wanted Curtis Green dead because of a theft of --- not sure why I need to read past this point.
I had no idea torrents had that limitation. Could torrents be tagged with versions and then old ones could be removed from seeders?
I think your complaints are disingenuous. [edit: what I mean is that you've pointed out problems with small components of the overall article and used them as an argument against the article as a whole, which I think is unfair. I don't think the components' validity affects the overall idea.]

His argument may have some holes, and people are probably mostly ignorant of those holes so they can't critique them, but I don't think they're in awe of the idea because their awe hasn't been dispelled by identifying those holes.

This is a very neat idea, and none of the issues with the setup argument dispel that.

"using bittorrent for a protocol that's already distributed and already pretty saturated with github competitors; well it just seems redundant."

no, no, it doesn't seem redundant. DHT based distributed indexing is so incredibly fundamentally different than a mirror list for files in FTP or from a series of GitHub clones. It's owner-agnostic. It just exists, by virtue of having participants, with no overhead. I don't have to select a target host or find a server or even identify where my particular file (or git repository, or username, or whatever) lives. It's .. unification. It's elegant and reduces complexity and makes the whole ecosystem more simple.

Maybe I'm blinded by my own awe, but, I love this idea.

Also, yes, some people have thought of components of this before, but I haven't really seen the full stack laid out vertically like this, combined with a narrative that makes me so excited about it.
Nice rejoinder to 'Canadians overdose on maple syrup' - a page about a generic disease that never mentions maple syrup nor Canadians, nor dosage.

Here is an in-kind rebuttal to your link: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-like-turtles
No. Intent and context matters. USPS/FedEx/UPS are businesses that primarily perform legal services, and follow US laws when its discovered that they were used for illicit purposes. On the other hand, Silk Road was built from the bottom up as a black market to service illegal goods. The idea that they just provided an anonymous marketplace and that unfortunately had illegal stuff happen on it is transparent lie that ignores the work Ross and his team put into promoting it as a drug marketplace.

Context and intent are important and laws aren't computer programs.
Wouldn't be surprised if they pay for the privilege.
Good lord, Google Translate is even worse with Japanese than I remember. Sorry! This is a very common phrase in Japanese, that comes up all the time. It means something like "Please work very hard", but it's meant to be very encouraging!
It very much was a part of the sentencing.
I guess jazz is too fuzzy, I heard Miles Davis never played the same note twice, not sure if conscious or not. Roy Haynes says he's not a metronome and everything flows with almost no structure.

All in all, it's hard to say if it's controlled or not. These guys have highly refined skills, even when they change course almost randomly, they know how to bend time and harmony, nothing is random.
By "random pretrial documents" you are in this case referring to the indictment itself, which is the premise of the entire trial.
It's clear, though, that there are aspects of 'distributed' that Git does not accomplish. This gives you a global namespace and a global identity, just like a website, without a single point of failure or a corporate interest, and with a closed source system and a trivial option for forking the whole structure into your own [friend group|company|private cluster|etc].

An argument could be made that git ought to be augmented with something like this: why run distributed protocol A on distributed protocol B; maybe we should just run distributed protocol AB from the get-go?
one guess

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second, some partners are more equal than others...
The evidence in question, Ross's journals and chat logs, were presented in trial and subject to rebuttal. He wasn't being tried for those crimes; those charges are still pending, but they were material to the case and the defense failed to dispute them. At the present moment, it is highly probable that he intended to have 6 people, including the innocent roomates of his targets, murdered.
According to Wikipedia: Blackmail is an act, often a crime, ... Essentially, it is coercion involving threats of ... of criminal prosecution.

Similar searches for the legal distinction between extortion and blackmail consider blackmail a form of coercion.

Given (A) that blackmail is coercion (psychological pressure), and (B) coercing someone into committing a crime is entrapment. Would (A) and (B) then not imply that (C) blackmailing should count as entrapment?

DPR did not come up with a hitman as a solution. Law enforcement made the suggestion. They did not use the words, just had their fake identity offer to take care of the situation.
A friend is already doing some of this.
http://androidspin.com/2015/05/25/aria-for-smartwatches-brin...
Clamp: create aliases with variables for your long curl commands
Except that, with Uber, you are simply trading one incumbent for another.

If Uber were simply an app that connected people and handled payment (for a fee) without exerting any other control, that would fit the parable.

Instead, Uber exerts all kinds of control over the drivers and is simply replacing one incumbent with regulatory capture with another incumbent.
I agree. I think the biggest issue is the type of audience that visits the site
"$0.10/hr, people would be still lined for blocks to take the job when the alternative is nothing."

Are you serious? You could find more money on the floor than work at a job like that.
From my understanding it's not unreasonable that someone whose goal is not "reduce CO2 emissions" but "reduce CO2 missions to a sustainable level" might see natural gas as a waste of time, diverting energy that might be better spent on a long-term solution.
This is not the slightest bit amazing. You're being purposely obtuse by removing any and all context here.
They still do, even though in typical writing they are used quite sparingly.
replying to self -- over here [1] people are discussing apple shutting down an app that uses url handlers to scrape the other installed apps on an ios device. The crucial difference: android just lets you query this.

While Android has an API for fetching a user's installed applications, Apple
did not include one, and even removed the ability to access a device's
UDID--steps clearly made with the intention of preventing the profiling of
users and the leaking of personal information.

Tell me again how google and apple are the same on privacy :rolleyes:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9625916
openscad (http://www.openscad.org) which is mentioned elsewhere in this thread is a much more direct descendant of POV-ray.
No, I'm not. Where are you coming up with this? Just go read http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc768

There's four fields in the UDP header.
I've worked on TCAS (collision avoidance for airplanes) in the past. The system will alert the pilot and ask them to do a specific route (such as climb, descend, do-not-climb). It's up to the pilot to respond (est. 2-5 seconds reaction time). The route decided upon by the airplane is in conjunction with the other plane.
Big surprise, a book from the early 19th Century has a silly linguistic view. By this logic English is a romance language because it has a lot of French borrowings, despite not descending from Latin. As for Chinese characters, well, do we consider Vietnamese and English part of the same language family because both are written with the Latin alphabet?

I acknowledged, in the post you're replying to, the large body of borrowed vocabulary, but that's not how languages are classified/made into families. Chinese and Japanese do not have a common ancestor and have very, very different grammar and phonetics.
> If anything should be open and free, it's art.

Wrong. Art really deserves copyright protection. However, that protection should not extend past the author's lifetime. Twenty years on a work is probably about right--maybe forty if we consider extended lifespans.

The social good of copyright is to incentivize creation. We tolerate the social bad--the monopoly--in order to get more works.

The problem is that copyright law no longer carries out the social good.
Looping MP4s are not GIFs
By "other health issues", you are might be referring "Jordan M", who was found cold to the touch with Silk Road open on his computer, a looped belt by his dangling arm, and an open express mail package full of heroin on his desk, who was found at autopsy to have died of intoxication by xanax, heroin, and valium --- all three of which he ordered on SR. The "other health issues" here are the fact that "Jordan M." was, as Ulbricht's lawyer described him in his sentencing memo, an "overweight 27-year old black man".

It's interesting to note that even if one of these overdose victims had health problems that predisposed them to overdose mortality --- something that is pretty far from being established --- there is actually a legal rule that contemplates this circumstance directly: google "the eggshell skull rule". The prosecution memo invokes the rule.
Pwning is easy for a skilled attacker vs an unskilled defender (the current situation).

With the focus on automatic evaluating and healing, it could seriously help out unskilled defenders.
It really bothers me that Google hijacks Jacquard's name for their own project. In the future the Google search engine will bury Jacquard's innovation in /dev/Internet/dustbin

With decency, they could at a minimum have acknowledged his existence, creations, influence, and inspiration.
Certainly it is much more valuable to teach kids language early on, beginning in primary school. Dual immersion schools seem to be very successful at teaching bilingualism. The problem is that in the US, the status quo is instead minimal classroom language education very late.

Arguably, you could say that about many bodies of knowledge as much as Latin. The question is really: What percentage of people take that mandatory one year minimum of high school language and really build it into something valuable? I think it's pretty low. And,

bad German < bad Latin < good Latin < good German

U.S. school systems generally are simply unwilling to invest the resources needed to get kids really bilingual.
Firewalls today are able to filter at line rate for a single flow on an interface. If you want to allow 100G by handing 10 10G flows in parallel this is completely possible, but not quite the same thing.
> When one side of the argument is based in real-world impacts, and the other side has nothing but an appeal to existing rules, it's a pretty good indication that the rules need changing.

One side is based on a "claimed" real-world impact. Its somewhat plausible but ultimately isn't backed by real evidence.
The loudness wars were about CD changers. Radio always normalized anyway.

You didn't want your CD sticking out as "quiet" when put in a 5 CD shuffle.
Well, also, empirically, adults who learn a foreign language can become quite good at it but even after decades of using the language often have accents or fossilized incorrect grammatical uses or uses of vocabulary. That doesn't really happen to children either.
Data from the BLS:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HtrOZSmjUEM/U2nEwmvNm5I/AAAAAAAABM...
I did see one comment that made me laugh on Emojis-as-a-Service (which is the epitome of how bad this site has become imo):

- I find this to be wildly unappealing
> No more than water does

The poster above me implied that Ulbricht's actions did not hurt anyone. Hence, harm from drugs is relevant, because Ulbricht was selling drugs.

Ulbricht was not selling water, so whether or not water is harmful is completely irrelevant to my point, which is that Ulbricht is not going to jail for "running a website".
Hello! I'm an iOS dev at Smule, and also develop my own apps on the side as an indie. Here's my thoughts:

First, I probably wouldn't use a framework like this unless it was really compelling. There are plenty of free versions of most of those components on cocoapods or github. I'm sure yours are better, but I can just pod install one of those and not have to worry about buying a license and get my task done. Would strongly suggest that you have some way to use parts of the framework incrementally, and maybe have some of them free and others of them "premium".

Also, cocoapods. If I can try out a component from a cocoapod, that means I can probably drop it into my app in 5-10 minutes, then if it's interesting spend a few hours seriously evaluating it. If I have to run some kind of installer, and then start a new app with a strange xcode template, I'm just not going to do it. Maybe that's just me, maybe other devs will.

I would suggest a non-invasive, per-app license, along with an expensive option for the perpetual license for enterprises or very prolific freelancers (or agencies).

Don't do any complicated nonsense with license keys and BS like that. It's a huge headache for you and for the developers, and pirates are going to get around it anyways. Just let anyone link your sdk, and have a way to identify apps that use your components (e.g. print [Trial Version] or something to the console). If someone uses your components on a popular app, check if they have a license and let the lawyers handle it. If small developers use your components just don't worry about it, it's more trouble than it's worth to go after. Offer a very generous discount for small devs to put your logo on their splash screen, that might convert some would-be pirates to organic marketing.
That seems way too harsh to me. I have strong opinions on the US War on Drugs and it's failure to meaningful deal with drug use/abuse in the USA. And I feel even worse about how it's spilling out into the rest of the world as we go "global" with everything.

The US War on Drugs is ridiculously harmful and shortsighted, absolutely. But the sentencing is consistent with US policy, however wrong it is. People are getting two-figure sentences for carrying small amounts of drugs themselves. Someone who facilitates the selling of an illegal product on a much wider scale should not get a lighter sentence.

The whole concept behind the War on Drugs sucks, but this sentence is consistent. If it were a shorter sentence, then it'd be similar to the legal inconsistency around cocaine: the form wealthy white people tend to use (powder cocaine) is much less penalised than the form poor and minority people tend to use (crack cocaine), because...?
This reminds of that passage in William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive where Mona meets this guy whose job is to check if company's name or brand or product name or whatever isn't an insult in Japanese or something.
Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers (2011)
But there are ways to get a reasonable measure of that, particularly if you at one point did not have them. Yeah, sure, it's probably not good enough to get into a peer reviewed journal, but little of the data you have when running a typical Web site is.
> This is just another way to rephrase the claim that Silk Road did net harm to others, which we were just debating.

It is not. Enriching yourself off of harm to others is a distinct issue from the net harm you're causing in the world.

To use the prosecutor's analogy, a drug dealer who sells an unadulterated product with clean needles does not get a free pass on being a drug dealer.
Interesting. Naturally, that only gives me more questions. Is the effect limited to French? For instance, is it also a good for learning Chinese? Is the effect stronger of weaker than learning a romance language for the same amount of time before learning French? This[1] cite from Wikipedia seems to hint so. I'm not sure how trustworthy it is. But even then, it raises the question of how much of the effect depends on having better motivated teachers.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20040301110515/http://www.educati...
I originally read the parent quote in a non-sarcastic tone and thought you were supportive of their line of reasoning.

(Libertarians say hi.)
This is why Glass failed IMHO. Google spent a bunch of time on the hardware, but just wiffed it with obvious demo software. Then they just put it out in the world "hey developers, figure out what to do with this, because we can't be bothered".

Instead of a new computing paradigm, it turned into a very expensive head-mounted camera and not much else. Something GoPro had nailed at 1/10th the price point and without the creepy factor.
It used to be a cool site but now the top voted products on any given day are sites that just lists things like free stock photos, free icons etc...

It still has a lot of potential they just have to do a bit of quality control.
I guess Molyneux is right in that no, Apple didn't do that--instead, they didn't say anything at all. The original iPhone had no app store, and no way of supporting external apps. Indeed, it was hackers and developers that took it and broke it into something that it was not.

Of course, I was pretty young at the time, so this might not be an accurate recount of events (or I may be mis-interpreting Molyneux's central point), but I think that giving a blank canvas to developers to play with can be just as interesting, especially when entering a new space--you just need to be ready for some turmoil along with the surprising uses of the tech.
I've always thought this would be amazing for file storage in general. A Dropbox that just syncs with the cloud encrypting your content with a private key and you can withdraw it at any time. You simply give back say 5 x as much storage as you use for the data mirroring.
No, quite often.

Not interviews, but position papers and talks and so on from the candidates. Contrary to folk wisdom, politicians for the most part take their work seriously and have put a lot of thought and effort into issues they care about.

In addition to their published material, you can always reach out to them or their staff to discuss in more detail.

That is, of course, on you to take those steps, but they are available to you.
That's just not that true. People rather frequently do things like share articles they only bothered to read half of on Facebook; there's no reason to think they wouldn't want a newsletter or a product. c.f. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/06/...

> Schwartz’s data shows that readers can’t stay focused. The more I type, the more of you tune out. And it’s not just me. It’s not just Slate. It’s everywhere online. When people land on a story, they very rarely make it all the way down the page. A lot of people don’t even make it halfway. Even more dispiriting is the relationship between scrolling and sharing. Schwartz’s data suggest that lots of people are tweeting out links to articles they haven’t fully read. If you see someone recommending a story online, you shouldn’t assume that he has read the thing he’s sharing.
I'm surprised no one has made a here-is-the-right-xkcd-comic-for-this-situation bot.
I think "ARTOS" is a mishearing of "a RTOS".