skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meta-programming is great to have, having access to a credit card is way better than not having one if you have the discipline to use it properly. It's essentially why I stick with Ruby rather than move to a statically-typed language, reflection and duck typing are tremendously useful when you don't really know what it is you're building yet but need to execute quickly. You can move at the speed of thought.

I used to have this view (though I used Python rather than Ruby). But since discovering Scala I've found I can move just as quickly, without having to sacrifice safety. When I really need extreme dynamism (which is rarely), typeclasses are a bit more cumbersome than just doing it in a dynamic language, but they can do everything I ever did in Python and while maintaining full safety.
Is this a real thing? This conversation feels like a window into an alternate universe.

I'm with you there.

I've helped organize a couple of small regional meetings, and I have literally zero idea what the political leanings of the speakers or attendees were. Nor did I care.

If someone were into radical politics in his free time, that would be his own business. If any of the speakers had veered off into unrelated violent or rude speech (e.g. racism, calling for war, political uprising, etc) at the podium, for a technical talk, that would be addressed on the spot. (I've never seen this happen.)
American sports fans are not violent in the same way that Football Ultras are.
Macros are not needed. You only need the UNWIND-PROTECT special operator, which is the generic feature you are looking for.
I wonder if they have anything planned for in-app ads, as these seem to be trending.
if there are problems compiling, it worked for me with this unrust-patch:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-hask...
Really?!

> But why would graal depend on sumatra for integration?

The other way around. Since Sumatra depends on Graal, it being integrated, means Graal also has to be.

Pity, since I learned about Maxime and JikesRVM back in the day, I have looked forward to the day the reference JVM would be meta-circular.
What to consider before buying a van?
From what we can conclude that: water is very common

(Of course, most likely not in liquid form)
The major problem with function calls in most languages (ie. not Haskell) is the call-by-value evaluation order.

Another problem that keeps us from replacing macros with functions is that function arguments can't be the binding position that introduces a new variable. To use an old classic example,

(let ((x 3)
(y 4))
(+ x y))

could be translated to ((lambda (x y) (+ x y)) 3 4), but no function could introduce new names `x' and `y' into scope. Scope is a compile time notion, and a function happens at run time.
> there are still security issues with containers no?

In Linux, perhaps. However FreeBSD jails and illumos zones are rock-solid. There's this crazy hype around containers these days and people just ignore the stable, secure, and tried technology, I don't understand it at all!

FreeBSD and illumos are not Linux, but their still Unix-like, it's not like you'd have to use OpenVMS. Plus you'd get other benefits too, like DTrace and ZFS. And on illumos now you can even run Linux binaries in a zone.

So why do people simply pretend these secure technologies don't exist? Can someone explain?
Screenshots here: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap-gui/wiki/Tarsnap#screensh...
> the last two blocks as I write this had .09 and .02 BTC in transaction fees respectively

What's that in real money?

Less trollishly, how does it compare to the mining reward? To the mining reward 10 years from now?
Extreme conservative opinions like Mr Yarvins are actually shocking to me. I don't think his particular writings should be banned or anything like that. However, are they so reactionary as to represent to the organizers a position that they don't want to even tacitly or obliquely endorse?

Given that the reaction of the organizers was to remove Yarvin's talk, with extremely vague justifications, I think both sides could agree that the answer to this question is "yes".
> IT is so much quality over quantity that effects like this would not happen easily.

I hope you are joking.
Millenials: The Most Vulnerable Generation to Cyberattacks
One quote comes to mind

-I'm from the future, learn Chinese.
Rosetta Stone pull in that much per quarter.

And manage to run at loss, with it.
Different strokes for different folks. I have never been interested in physical sports (Unless my partner's dad is around, then yay, rugby, best sport in the world), or e-sports that much, but my friend had a spare ticket to watch the LCS Cup finals (League of Legends tournament) in Wembley Arena, London and I've never experienced anything like it. You get so caught up in the hype, the baying crowd and the insane technical skills of the players that you can't ever look at e-sports in the same way again.

Been given a ticket to watch New Zeland All-Blacks play this year, maybe the same thing will happen and I'll enjoy rugby more, who knows.
Would be interesting to see a comparison to Druid: http://druid.io/

They both seem to cater the same use case: scalable real-time analytics.
Yes, much better. For anyone interested, here's a link with background information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1196586/calling-remove-in...
Almost every problem that containers solved, was solved with EclipseBSD http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.8... way back in 1998
Clojure has always been slightly disappointing for me...

The principles behind its design are all sound and Rich Hickey deserves credit for putting in the hard thought behind it.

... but.... the reality seems to be of a really under performing language. The forums are consistently full of people with 'why is this slow?' to which the solution is always 'Give it more hints' or 'do it in a more Java like way'.

Unfortunately the Clojure stack seems not to have much mechanical sympathy (despite its best intentions). It seems the natural/idiomatic way to use Clojure results in far too much dynamic behavior to be performant.
Clojure may scale well, but its inherent bad performance (without lots of work) is a major downside.

I forget who said this, but it seems very appropriate to Clojurists... "Show me you can use one machine well before you get another..."
Blendle(http://blendle.com) is trying to be the 'micro'-paywall for content providers. After launching in The Netherlands, they have contracts with major German publishers now as well.

Micro-payment system which actually works.

Disclaimer: Dutch
It's a mix of both.

A 220 story building would be an engineering marvel, and at the same time not a threat to civil engineers. The bread and butter for engineers are much smaller buildings, which are less technically challenging and acceptable for new construction techniques to be tested out on. You would expect to see a lot more civil engineering resistance on the smaller targets, not the biggest ones. The biggest issue facing such a monster building is the safety of even going that high, considering wind shear, earthquake risks, etc.
For some reason I don't feel compelled to spend time in such a building...
Thanks for the link. My guess is that this is what most people are after :)
10+ Reasons Android Phones Better Than IPhones – AnsMachine
You could have a "what is mob programming" link somewhere. The time picker says AM for me as well.
Er, yes. What is your proposed alternative? Ads have the advantage of being anonymous and the "tracking" is optional (you can block cookies and see worse ads, if you like). The alternative is to pay for things. On the internet paying for things requires an account and (modulo bitcoin) a credit card, neither of which are anonymous or private.

So far we cannot have our cake AND eat it. So you have to pick.
Then they'll have to start implementing workarounds. The EFF made an interesting tool [1] a few years ago to show how easily you can be tracked from your browser configuration and installed plugins/fonts/etc. There might be more advanced tricks nowadays.

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I think you raise very valid point. Historically it just made business sense for content creators to put up some ads. It works like a feedback loop: you put some ads -> you can offset your production costs and lower the price or produce more content -> you increase your audience -> you put more ads. And unfortunately for content consumers the equilibrium is near the point when they are irked by the ads but just not enough to leave in droves.

So now when general dissatisfaction with ads seems to rise the choice for content creators is to install paywalls/raise prices (public won't like it either) or accept more surreptitious kinds of ads (morally dubious). Or maybe go freemium?
I read lots of great ad supported content every day.
Since this is such a big problem, I think we should do something about it immediately. Just like powdered alcohol. /s
Did it though? Is music "better" or "worse" now?
Anyone looking for remote devops, let me know. We are creating some healthy bench for Devops. Drop me an email at gaurav.pant@trantorinc.com

Also we are hiring across Ios and Android app development and Hadoop/pig/hive.
Extending “Let It Go” with recurrent neural network
The simplest, most obvious explanation is: Israeli intelligence wanted to spy on Kaspersky because they are the best at finding and analysing state sponsored malware, they were over-cocky and they eventually got caught.
Doesn't this scare you a little bit ? Because it does scare me a lot.

As I get older I feel like there's a peak amount of knowledge that I can load into my mind and the areas of technology which used to be green pastures are now filled with young brilliant minds doing incredible things.

There are more devs in the ecosystem of a javascript framework than there were people in the web space just 15 years ago. Or at least so it seems.

Now when the AI is going to come, it's going to take it months if not weeks to raise to the top and make everyone obsolete.

So suddenly, all these highly intelligent, highly educated people have their rugs pulled from beneath them by a service which improves itself and uses 5 minutes to write code which is orders of magnitude more superior than what a team of 100 could accomplish in 1 year..

What will all the humans do when this happens ?
I would be tempted too!
What caught my eye was the oscillation in the abundancy graph, there is a tendency for even atomic number elements to be more abundant than odd atomic number elements. Looking at the original Wikipedia article leads to the Oddo-Harkins rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddo%E2%80%93Harkins_rule. There is more discussion on the stability of even vs odd atomic number elements here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_and_odd_atomic_nuclei. From the latter link, roughly 60% of stable nuclei have an even number of protons and an even number of neutrons. Only 2% have an odd number of protons and an odd number of neutrons.

It would be nice if someone could explain any of the exceptions to the Oddo-Harkins rule, such as the dip at atomic number 44, Ruthenium.
> “The biggest problem we face in the world right now isn't terrorism or world war. It's climate change,” he says.

I really like seeing this quote from a Chinese business man.
I just don't get why people who watch normal sports get all up in arms about "nerds playing video games". Why can't we all just like what we like and leave it at that?

As for me I used to be into League of Legends tournaments, but every match I watch just feel the same. For me esport of choice is CS:GO, while the maps are the same the spots differ quite a lot and there is a lot more action since the rounds are so much shorter. I still do play both of the games, but I prefer to watch CS over LoL
I think in cases where the original comment appears to be made in good faith, it's OK to explain what's wrong with it/what to do instead. That's how people learn.

(Obvious spam/flames/etc. should just be downvoted, ofcourse.)
But why do you think Graal wouldn't be integrated? They've already started the process with Sumatra or without.
If you are ripping content and distributing it, aren't you engaging in copyright infringement?

The argument for infringing copyright has never stood up. "Music wants to be free" etc. etc. is all a load of rubbish. "Food wants to be free" is another slogan we could all adopt but nobody would accept it because food has a cost, the same way that creating content has a cost.
I think Java 9 paves the way to (or actually includes) JIT caching.
Can I ride a bus/affordable taxi back home at 11PM after having a couple of beers in a pub located downtown? If you're living outside a city the answer to this is in most cases a "no".
Why is "Scala in Vim" such a famous tutorial topic? One of the best tutorial guys on Vim also made a video about that: https://vimeo.com/83065681
Snapterms – Terms of Service as a Service
> Hydrogen bomb tests are estimated to have created several hundred kilograms of tritium, the bulk of which went straight into the oceans. No impact on sea life has been measured.

This is just wishfull thinking. A clear and well documented impact on sea life with a lot of local extinctions can be easily checked still 50 years later, in fact. Nothing growing in the island is safe to eat currently.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080415101021.ht...
The EU is the only thing stopping the UK surveillance state becoming even worse.
Aging is a software bug
Equation Group was very clearly the NSA, given that actual NSA codenames appeared in the binaries.
'Clean slate' urged on spying powers
It's worth noting that Colin blesses this as a public beta in a reply – http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg01124.html.

But I would be interested to know more of what (if any) the commercial relationship is?
We built our own library to manage transactional email, you define an HTML and Text template, a meta file and then the library inject your data and automatically inline css, it's for NodeJS but you might take some idea from it
https://github.com/FGRibreau/node-transacemail
Interesting to note that the required 3.7 oz converts to roughly 100 grams. Quite a lot of mass to impose on gun designs, I imagine.

I don't have any experience with gun-smithing so I don't know how much metal is strictly technically required, but I imagine it to be less or the legislature wouldn't be necessary to begin with, of course. Also, the minimum metal mass is probably a moving target (heh).
19 days to -assemble- a 57 storey tower. Four and a half months constructing the modules for assembly.

> Broad Sustainable Building spent four and a half months fabricating the building’s 2,736 modules before construction began. The first 20 floors were completed last year, and the remaining 37 were built from 31 January to 17 February this year, Xiao said.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/chinese-constru...
First they came for /r/ShitNiggersSay, and I did not speak out--Because I was not an asshole.

[...]

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

I feel like you're skipping over a lot of slippery slope in the middle there.
No we can't. If it's not molecules, it's not water, and there's nothing here to indicate whether the hydrogen and oxygen are found bound together.
I don't know if I would rant on Twitter, but I would be as frustrated as well. Those 'tests' are very academic and I am not an academic person. I've not even officially finished high school. This test will not properly judge how well I can code or design software. I've been doing just that for 20 years now, and launched a few start ups, but I would fail that interview at the door.

I interviewed once for Google (at their request) and failed. For some reason they interviewed me for a networking position instead of a code one, so questions about TCP internals were not really my forte. I was just launching my second start up at the time and would have declined the job had I gotten it. I admit it does sting a bit to be declined - not just for Google, but for any position - even those you would decline yourself.
A Question of Trust – Report of the Investigatory Powers Review
Surreptitiously racist and full of prejudice. Thank you for leaving our country.
I suppose the difficulty is that servers on the Internet are available publicly and therefore people expect free content from them. The problem is that people put content on there for £0.00 and we have expected it to be that cost (ie, nothing) ever since.

It is obvious, however, that hosting servers is not without cost, nor is creating content without cost.

The solution would therefore be to:
a. not offer content free,
b. attempt to support it with adverts

Since option B is disliked by so many, the only logical option is A.

I believe we should probably have a reintroduction/introduction of HTTP 402. I think that would make sense.
I came here to ask for a comparison between the two. I'll add the request here instead instead of starting a new top level thread.

Both look really interesting!
Resurrect HTTP 402 perhaps?
Russia censors VPN and Tor advice site
This is pretty neat, but I wonder why not download an epub or pdf version of the book right away as well:

var downloadurl = 'https://www.packtpub.com/ebook_download/'+getBookUrl.split('/')[2]+'/epub';
request(downloadurl)
.pipe(require('fs')
.createWriteStream('./books/book_'+getBookUrl.split('/')[2]+'.epub'));

Oh and btw, for those not aware of this yet, if you use gmail, you can use example+spam@gmail.com and it will arrive in your inbox, but more easy to label as spam and auto-delete if they start spamming.
Ukrainian largest bank launches online authorization via selfie
I was talking about Apple this time. If we were talking about Android, I'd say the same thing. Me not seeing myself as an ideologist means that ideology is not what drives me to use Google or Apple - just pure aesthetics. I would gladly use Apple products if I found them aesthetically pleasing or technologically advanced above anything else. Same goes for any other product or way of life. In other words, I rather not let ideology dictate my life as its restricting. I prefer to deal with things on a case by case basis.
European Commission opens formal probe into Amazon's e-book distribution deals
Early on in the article I wondered about how steel was going to be CO2-efficient, given the amount of coal involved in its production; but then I see it's as a replacement for concrete, which is much worse.
Tell me more about the creation of the elements that "come from cosmic rays".
The standard behaviour for a while has been to open the action overflow (the "hidden" menu with three dots on the right hand side of the action bar) menu. This menu affordance was supposed to appear on devices that didn't have a hardware menu button.
The second ones are not permanent toilets, on that same spot we do have permanent ones now that stay in the ground for most of the day and come out at night (in a nightlife area):

http://f00.inventorspot.com/images/urilift-public-pop-up-toi...
Holus: How to scam Kickstarter backers using 19th century technology
Different groups in this case. According to Kapersky's report, Duqu used a zero-day to promote into kernel space, then loaded the full payload into memory. Less terrifying than the firmware revision from EG as a single attack, but Duqu was unique in that it replicated itself around in the local network, making it impossible to remove short of powering down everything.
That's kind of a different thing. You do not pay google for their service (search). Instead you pay for content using google. Google sits in their favorite position of the all-tracking middleman and uses gathered information for serving you more and more creepy ads.
This fake holographic display already reached 150.000$ of pledges on Kickstarter. Don't fall for it.
If you read the linked article you will find that he means it is resistant to non-bathroom activities such as using it for washing clothes. I'm not sure why that would be a big problem, but the design isn't intended to prevent the homeless from using it as a bathroom.
Intel lawyers blocked golang crypto speedup patch
Considering this is prefabricated module assembly it is exactly like today's development work.

Even more so as people have created frameworks and libraries that you can use freely to compose your application in much less time than if you had to do it all over again.

Some of these frameworks and libraries simplify the process so much that you CAN throw more human power at it and still get good results.
There might be £700k printed and in peoples' hands, but it's an extremely unusual thing to see someone using the Bristol Pound here, despite the huge range of places that do accept it. I suspect that most of the money doesn't move fluidly around the economy.
That depends entirely on the situation, and "affordable" is a relative term. Also, the term "downtown" seems to indicate you're still thinking in terms of a reasonable size city.
I make a webcomic... I also block ads aggressively... I put
my adblocking mouth where my money is: as long as I'm getting
enough money per new page of comics on Patreon, I don't have any
ads on my current project. It's been great to not have anything
trying to distract people from reading my content. Sometime
next year, as the Patreon income rises, I'll turn off ads on
all my comics, new or old.

Sorry to simplify, but I'm not familiar with your work: Is it safe to say that you

1. show exactly enough advertisements to earn what you subjectively feel is a salary commensurate with your investment -- time investment or otherwise

2. block all ads from other sites?

(Disclaimer: I make a portion of my income from ads.)
I've just launched my first comic, Carcosa - http://www.strangecompany.org/carcosa/ . It's made using CGI techniques, but post-processed to look like hand-drawn art. People seem to like it so far.

I'm working on 3 short films - one is literally hours away from completion, one I've just shot, and one I'm shooting in two weeks.

All of them are at least moderately interesting from a technical standpoint: the first is a two-hander between a live actor and a CGI motion-captured character. The second uses practical effects including the quite marvelous "el wire", but was made with a crew that goes beyond "tiny" and into "that shouldn't be possible", largely by utilising the latest film tech (Rode's new frequency-hopping wireless mic really saved our collective ass). And the third I'm using as a chance to really stretch the Sony a7s's legs and get close to Hollywood lighting without the Hollywood power bill, by using complex but very low light at an ISO that would normally be unusable.

I'm also continuing to poke at VR - most recently experimenting with stereo cubemaps, which are amazing. Here are my initial experiments with that: http://www.strangecompany.org/3-new-virtual-reality-stereo-p...
Nordic startups raise $1B+ in a year for the first time, and it's only June
I don't think that's ruthenium -- that graph has a gap at technetium (Z=43), which has no long-lived isotopes. The line actually joins Z=42 and Z=44.

(Might also be confusing that Sn (Z=50) is labelled at the wrong place (Z=48)).

edit: here's a modified version,

https://i.imgur.com/0iQ6vNX.png
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See also the Brixton Pound https://brixtonpound.org/
Yeah, we seem to prefer the "freedom of speech is a responsibility not a right" angle. Personally, I agree.
So basically to you the hype around esports is just as strange as the one around soccer, or any other non-electronic sport? Or do you think the hype around esports is extra strange, for some reason?

I'm not into either, but with my background esports certainly is easier to see as interesting since it's something I enjoy doing myself and can relate to more than most physical sports.