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The work started when Wirth saw the same Xerox setup that Apple did. Wirth couldn't buy one so he just built his own lol. The first system Wirth and Jurg Gutknecht designed was Lilith [1]. They improved Pascal to make modular software in the form of Modula-2. They made a P-code-like assembler language called M-code to make compilation easier and raise assembler abstraction slightly. They then wrote most of the system in Modula-2. They had in about 2 years a computer, OS, compiler, and some apps. ETH used these day-to-day and they later morphed into Oberon system.

The brilliance of Wirth was keeping things simple. I think he overdid it but it served him well in many ways. He also kept things consistent where possible. Just having a simple language, compiler, libraries, and consistent + simple bytecode target would be better than what I've dealt with coding. Each iteration, he tries to improve the language and platform with lessons he learned from the first. He also ensures the lowest common denominator is easy to port, compile efficiently, and produce efficient code for.

A lot of inspiration. He's recently put Oberon on a custom, simple processor running on an FPGA. The latest incarnation of the system is A2 Bluebottle [2] with downloads here [3].

[1] http://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/Lilith.pdf

[2] http://www.sage.com.ua/en.shtml?e1l0

[3] http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/downloads/index
If he wasn't explicitly offering child porn then how can he assume people who visited his honey pot were looking for child porn if they didn't explicitly state it? Sure the guy offering pictures seems like a pedophile, but what about the others?
This makes me wonder, what would this look like for plan9?

http://aiju.de/misc/plan9-syscalls
> Nicotine is directly harmful to your heart.

Yes, but it's worth noting that the increased risk of heart disease from smoking is due to more than just nicotine.
Good catch! I've edited it to correct it.
Also terrorism and hackers (of the black-hat kind.) I've even been called one when I tried to argue against the proliferation of closed, walled-garden systems that seem so common today.

That reminds me, Freenet has an interesting stance on this:

https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#childporn
Smells like False Flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
If you enjoyed this I would highly recommend picking up a copy of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. It's a great read.
Exactly. I see the question on Stack Overflow all the time and just keep dropping a whole list of counterexamples. Too many myths in IT that hold mainstream back.
I have already shut down the VM but I believe there were around 550-650 registered users in 14 days. Around 40-60 new registrations per day. Total registrations for counterfeiting+drugs sites: 8. Since the article went out, someone pointed out to me that one popular pedo .onion site has 90,000 registered users.
That makes sense. I am surprised why anyone would want to choose S&P500 in this case.
Yes, that’s what swannodette said in the talk. Skip to 33 minutes, or see https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Google-Summer-... and the blog posts at https://mneise.github.io
Their argument doesn't appear to be "Tor is bad because it can be used for bad stuff" but "Tor is bad because it is overwhelmingly used for bad stuff today". That seems to be a meaningful distinction to me.

(I don't really care about the argument/premise itself, I just find your sloppy attempt at a counter-argument to be weak)
If you're looking for a shoddy metaphor you should probably use swords instead, because the legitimate uses of knives vastly outnumber the killing-people uses of them but swords have it the other way around.
Careful, money supply is not at all the same thing as inflation, see:

http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation/Money_Supply_an...

Because we are in a big "liquidity trap": http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/monetary-policy-...

The fed printed money can only be loaned, not just given away. This limits its direct impact on inflation. On the other hand, it certainly would cause inflation if it made it out of the banks. But banks will only loan if they think they can make money: only if there is economic growth to take advantage of, otherwise it just sits.

At this point we should not limit growth based on lack of liquidity, so it's probably not a bad thing that the fed is pumping money into the banks.

I read that some in the fed suggest that interest rates should be raised. The expectation of future higher rates might encourage people to borrow and spend now: https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/a...
The only advantage of public-keys over private that I can think of would be to reduce the number of servers with the private key.
It was a great project. Still faster than Javascript if run through an optimizing compiler. Combine that with today's best security schemes for browsers and you have a lot of performance for a better level of safety. Not going to happen, though. Not enough overhead & buzzword compliance to make it into a web stack. ;)
That just doesn't match reality. If anyone is helping small business owners, they're a colossal failure. The whole 99% thing. We can agree they some folks want to appear to be helping small business owners.
Sorry, it's under an insane load right now. I fully expect to find a dead server when I wake up in the morning.
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Sure - the harm is is going to be greater when you add in all the other nasty compounds in tobacco smoke.

It in not only smoke that is harmful as people who chew tobacco suffer an increase in mouth cancer. While vaping should have a lower risk than smoking, it is not risk free. Since it is so new we won’t know for sometime how dangerous it is.
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Time gives the money a chance to grow if there is anywhere that offers a safe return. Lending at a negative interest rate is paying someone to keep your money safe. Borrowing at a real negative interest rate may not make sense if you aren't sure you can do that.
You have to implement it yourself. For some apps, you may need to do this anyway for perf reasons, because you don't want to parse the same HTTP response body more than once.
"but if you really want to help children you need to go after the people producing/hosting child pornography."

Who says the people viewing it aren't abusing children?
"Also, is it so bad to have more farmers?"

Well, it's not so bad if you're the lord of the manor, maybe.

Being the serf sucks, though.

That's exactly what you're advocating, behind all your rhetoric. Get rid of the tractors and fertilizers and processing factories, and you're right back to unfree laborers working with hand tools.

Quite possibly you've even fooled yourself... you admit that you don't actually know anything about farming, but still advocate some vague program based on feel-good emotions.

You don't want to fuck with the food supply unless you really, really know what you're doing. History is full of utopian agricultural "reform" ideas. It's also full of millions of dead bodies produced by those "reforms".
That's a really good way of putting it by Warren Buffet. This phenomenon of the bottom being ignored happens in software too of course:
http://www.saastr.com/the-simple-reason-why-there-will-be-10...

"Salesforce is now working on as many $100m+ deals as it can try to close. Because once you adding > $1 billion in ARR a year, you need a few Really, Really Big Enterprise deals to move the needle. And a handful of $50m-$100m deals are, by definition, the new target to really move the needle at that scale.

Given that … does it make any sense to pursue the $9 a month market? Or the $2000 ACV market? I mean, not really. And Salesforce isn’t.

So the bottom 10% of this $10 billion market, or $1 billion, isn’t even being addressed by Salesforce."
Can you confirm your medical case?
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Oberon dates from the 80s, so much earlier. But they are clearly kindred spirits in wanting to make whole systems that a single person can understand.
This is the sort of reason why I ignore the advice to put some trifling portion of my portfolio in emerging markets.

That and the high expense ratios.
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When he was younger, and long before I was born, my father used to hang out at a bar in Chicago after work. There was another regular there and eventually, after a few weeks, the two of them started up into friendly conversation and became good acquaintances. My father was running a small business at the time and easily joked about the agony of running a business, the other guy never really talked much about what he did.

One day my father came home, and his wife at the time mentioned that a delivery many had just come by and dropped off an age-appropriate gift for their son (my oldest brother) the day before his birthday.

My father had never mentioned where he lived, that he had a family or a son, his son's age, or birthday.

He never went back to that bar again.
The risk of HN turning into r/anything is orders of magnitude smaller than the risk of getting stuck at a too-narrow local optimum.
so what's gonna happen tomorrow?
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Here is a tweet from June 29th:

"Starfighter progress update: private beta test in "the not too distant future." Watch this space (or your inbox) for more updates."

So, it appears to still be a work in progress.
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Ask HN: Are there companies similar to the Bloomberg Terminal in other verticals?
For example I know Mattermark is for private markets. What about real estate, private equity etc?
The second-hand smoke nuisance has been eliminated in public places

Only in the West. Here in SE Asia you're hard pressed to find a cafe or restaurant that isn't completely engulfed in cigarette smoke during business hours. Public smoking bans seem a long way off here.
"A knock on your door", ha! That's one way to put it.
It seems like the author is emotionally invested in this topic:

> Given my circumstances, I have seen first-hand, the psychological damage a pedophile’s actions cause. The damage done to these children is permanent and no matter how much counseling and assistance they seek – the experience is forever embedded into their self, shaping (and sometimes limiting) what they become as adults.

I can't pretend like I really get this because I've never dealt with pedophiles or pedophilia first-hand but I can agree, however, that people that hurt children are doing something morally wrong. With that said, this kinds of vigilante-esque behavior can be (and often times is) the absolute antithesis of justice.

> On two different occasions I contacted the FBI about the project and offered to provide full sets of data that I had collected.

Since OP tried to approach the FBI on two different occasions, it doesn't really seem to me like this was merely an innocuous "security" experiment (like this one: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/spoiled-onions-tor-network,news-...). It seems like OP really feels a deep hatred towards pedophiles and was, in a sense, out to get them.

Thankfully, we have the justice system that handles this for us. These are people that try to be impartial, fair, and just. When accused, we have the court system -- a system that values innocence until proven guilt. I hope I won't be taken out of context here. I'm not defending pedophilia (or drug trafficking or murder -- a few other Tor commodities). Do you really feel compelled to "get the bad guys?" Great. Go to a police academy or go to law school. Real life isn't like a superhero graphic novel. The law, for the most part, works. More importantly, it provides some boundaries for those that enforce it.

I had to read Mill's On Liberty in a Philosophy of Law class I took a few years ago and Chapter IV, Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual, really stuck with me. I would strongly suggest OP give it a good read: http://www.bartleby.com/130/4.html.
But most Tor users, especially the ones who are using it for disgusting purposes don't run an exit node, so I don't think I understand your point? In addition, Tor exit node IPs are basically public info already.
I think some people's cologne/perfume stinks, but I don't see anyone trying to ban that. Some people have asthma complications due to second hand fragrance.

Should we mandate showers too? I've known some people who didn't practice proper hygiene and had a rather repulsive smell. Maybe we should forcibly scrub them down.
Hermaphrodites are both, creatures who change sex start as one gender and become another. I don't see a problem.
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I guess they had a look to the key performance numbers at Reddit after the blackouts, and finally understand that Reddit with new regime control kills popularity, sub-reddits going black can cause a pretty visible dip in the visitor stats. I guess this happens when you move from community driven to profit driven with a site like Reddit.
Had you bought a Chinese index share a year ago, you'd still be up around 100%...
The thing you got to wonder about is : they're trying to stop a panic. Is this going to stop the panic or reinforce it ?

My money's on reinforce. And it's (thankfully) out of China.
I listened to 10 minutes and bookmarked it. I had not heard any of his talks before - nice sense of humor!

I liked his comment on how is is disingenuous for AI researchers to say that they don't believe real AI is possible (I am roughy paraphrasing him).
It's right here: http://search.cpan.org/~wbraswell/RPerl-1.000001/script/rper...
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No, although I've been pinging Ben Laurie on having them slap version numbers on it periodically. I think that'd be nice.

The (perhaps obviously biased) TLS Under Siege talk by Google's Neel Mehta ranked BoringSSL #1 (of 2) when it came to OpenSSL forks, FWIW:

https://ruxconbreakpoint.com/assets/2014/slides/TLS%20Under%...
Not really. The value of a thing is what someone else is willing (and able) to pay for it.

Therefore the value of a Chinese share, at the moment, is $0. In practice it's even negative, as you'll still be paying fees for your brokerage account.
Ask HN: An open-source Wit.ai alternative?
I have little to no experience with NLP, but Wit.ai makes it super easy. However, they were bought by Facebook months ago and I'm not sure they wont be shut down.

Are there any similarly easy, open-source alternatives?
The inconsistency this game reveals, that different objectionable habits with similar health consequences receive different legal treatment, as they are not interchangeable in your X template, is cultural. If some other deadly thing can not take the place of X, I would argue that culture is invoked to support the otherwise useless, apparently unsupported assertion, "but, this is different."
He said he CONTACTED the FBI twice, but does it actually say if he was rejected or simply ignored?
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it pains me that the only robust option for encrypted chat is a java application.
"The kernel of NeXTSTEP is based upon the Mach kernel, which was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University, with additional kernel layers and low-level user space code derived from select parts of BSD." [1]

NeXTSTEP became the basis for OS X. It meets the Single UNIX Specification [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#OS_X
Airbnb deleted my emails
I have been a loyal Airbnb customer for a some time and have stayed with wonderful people all over the country except this past experience. It all started when I booked a trip to [undisclosed location] hackernews land. I've seen the listing from the airbnb website and read the description and it seemed like it would be a wonderful place to stay.

Long story short the listing was not described as it was on the airbnb listing page and there were multiple rules broken on the host end in which I ended up canceling my 28+ days stay (only stay for 2 nights). I reached out to airbnb only to find that they could simply do nothing but highly recommended that I talked to the couple and ask for a refund. I sent images, emails etc to airbnb and they still sided with the host.

Today during my lunch break I received an email from airbnb. I did not open the email as I was hurrying back to the office. 3 hours later I am out of the office and am searching for the email and nothing is there. I then look in my sent box and nothing is there.

Airbnb logged into my gmail (signed up using gmail oauth) and erased our conversation what should I do?
TLDR; physical security at second and third-tier European ports is bad.
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> Are there any index funds that track the entire market? Wouldn’t investing in all companies solve the problem of index tracking?

Yes, there are funds that try to match the entire market. Vanguard runs a couple "total market" indices (VT and VTI, for example), and there are more.

But that's not to say that they actually invest in the entire market. They don't; they use sampling to try to match the performance of the thing they index. (Vanguard, at least, gets very very close to this...)

Disclosure: I am invested in in VTI.
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well this is a clear signal that Chinese government has failed to control the stock market. I can't believe how naive they were thinking they could control something that is traditionally found only in non-command economies.

My guess is that they are going to come up with some bullshit like foreigners are driving down the stock prices, blame the Western devils for being homeless.

Well, it's not like people are going to go up to arms about it, it is a communist country after all, and we've seen how well Soviet Union did in keeping people in check even at the shittiest time.
This is the same Yanis Varoufakis that left Valve Software so he could take on this role. Hopefully, gaben will allow him to return so he can work on something meaningful again.
The layout is completely buggy on firefox, I have to move and find the right position for the picture to load.
Google Drive could be a safer alternative if you actually opened all untrusted files with Google Drive, instead of downloading them and opening them with a local copy of Microsoft Office.

Unfortunately, Google Drive is pretty bad at handling PowerPoint files.
I agree. Question for you: In the comments section of your post, someone mentions another ORM. You responded, as follows:

>dao.insert(testBean);

>DB manipulations are outside of the "bean". That's wrong.

Why do you say this?
Thanks that is very enlightening as to how this front running manifests.

Still makes me wonder if that means I am going to get an extra 20 basis points for free out of VTSAX.
That doesn't answer my question.

Both Android and OSX are listed under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Mostly_POSIX-compliant

What I would like to know is, is there any fundamental difference in how the two have derived from their predecessors, ie. Android kernel from the Linux kernel and OSX's XNU kernel from the NexTSTEP/BSD kernels, specifically in terms of compatibility concerns.

(Edit reply to below: Yes but my understanding is that the Android kernel changed fundamental system calls, such as those used for memory allocation, forcing everything userland to be rewritten. Is the 'two systems' of XNU you describe not, therefore, similar in its effect on compatibility?)
Here you go, all Tor exit nodes:
https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses

The Tor project does a lot of work to make operating an exit node safer and less likely to prompt the authorities to intervene. This is good, because even if the authorities did want to talk to exit node providers, those people _couldn't_ provide any useful logs.
Good stuff. Kudos!

I really like how they ask for sponsors.
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To be clear, Tor does not provide encryption but anonymization. While your comment is valid (and something I personally agree with) nonetheless, I feel this distinction is important.
Very informative post! I just finished creating an online course on Ruby on Rails and I'm thinking of creating an ebook from it.

I'm also looking for authors who would want to publish their programming books or posts on my site [1], where they could include programming challenges and other exercises.

[1] https://www.learneroo.com.
I felt like it was all over the place. I am not sure if I really care about all the people who are using graphql like syntax for data retrieval, I am not interested datamoic, falcor ect.
> Choice of language only affects your culture if you believe choice of language affects your culture and let it happen.

I would disagree with that. I just came from a startup on .NET. The develop/build/test/deploy cycles were really slow (mostly due to tooling/infra, not the language), which meant devs didn't ship frequently and didn't test their code much. That affected the culture quite a bit: no rapid experimentation means no hacker mentality.

It may be that you can develop rapidly with C# or Java (I just wouldn't know, I haven't ever used either in a highly-productive environment) but if they hold you back from shipping quickly, they hold you back from the hacker/startup mentality.
I think it depends what you count as scientific computing. I'm an engineer at an industrial plant and like you for offline non intensive stuff when I have to knock up a prototype fast I use SAS mostly because it has good integration with databases and I can crank out code very fast using it.

My housemate is a Math/Stats person he works in finance and uses R for much the same reasons.

Maybe Python is useful but it would have to offer me something compelling to make me switch over.
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Same. The videos take forever to load because they're loaded in a lazy fashion so they don't begin being downloaded until you are looking at empty space. Also it seems like each one is several megabytes in size.
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Chinese shares aren't trading at 0. Trading automatically halts after a certain percentage drop on the SSE, it's normal, although not for so many stocks to drop at once. Tomorrow those shares will resume trading, and it won't be at 0.

You can see the alternative on the HK market, where some stocks are 15-20% down for the day.

You can proclaim the world is ending, I'll be buying at the bottom. While the volatility is a little crazy right now, it's not the end.
While you might be flummoxed, colleges & universities are facing substantial federal pressure to have this kind of system.
Perhaps something like an ipython notebook would be the "modern" way to do it?
If we are doing the whole argument by shoddy analogy thing, then I'll give you:

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

-- Homer, The Odyssey[1]

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/368547-the-blade-itself-inci...
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> Airbnb logged into my gmail (signed up using gmail oauth) and erased our conversation

That's quite an accusation. Do you have proof?