skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they really do plan to ban encryption, the response will be much faster than retail. There is literally no way London financial business can safely exist without encryption. Investments, accounts, insurances, etc. pretty much require encryption under the current DPA and any comparable law of other countries.

The moment London banks say "we're forced to use backdoored/no encryption", any foreign business they interact with will (have to) say "LOL, bye then".

Majority of tech companies are not even comparable to that market.
Yes, essentially all ARM chips are going to support the old ISA. I'm not sure I understand your criticism though? RISC and CISC are terms that always apply to an ISA rather than a CPU, I hope I didn't accidentally imply anything else.
> I mean his own colleagues question his mental instability, and nothing happens.

From my reading it seemed the colleagues questioning his stability were colleagues by profession, not employer. Or they'd worked together many years earlier. Some suspected that he'd become inundated with the culture in the local DA's office, in which case he might not be so unstable compared to the rest (where they put up pictures of KKK founders). The checks, in this case, are with the voters of the parish, which seems unfortunate because they also elected his predecessor who was obviously satisfied with Cox's work to keep him on for so long.
Thanks for the reply! Most of them make much more sense now. As to 1. and 2., I'd say you could want to consider merging those clarifications into the original article. In 1., arguably some background knowledge of Unity could be expected from the reader, and maybe I'm just not the intended target. But especially in 2., I'm afraid I can't agree that those clarifications are there, just hidden between words. There are very little words in 2. in the article. As to 3.2 & 3.3, I don't really get the clarifications unfortunately; I think it shows even more that I don't really have knowledge of Unity, so I'm starting to think maybe that wasn't really an article for me to start with. Thanks for the interesting and insightful discussion!
Let's compare Mcenroe to Aaron Hernandez.
That's just speculation though. It could be happening, sure, but that sounds very risky, and doesn't pass Occam's razor as far as I'm concerned. On Twitter, time and time again, some people will retweet / fav corporate stuff because it's funny or makes them feel good / outraged / etc. Some people love to associate with or promote a brand they like.

Maybe Taco Bell puts a lot of work in creating content that works well on the Reddit frontpage (which would definitely be manipulative, but hey, what are you gonna do), and maybe their own employees at home are upvoting it ("it's for the good of the company"), but I very much doubt the top people at Reddit are making a business out of this, if only because they couldn't justify it to their employees.

It just seems more likely to me that 1) a lot of material is organically upvoted, and it includes corporate stuff from well-known compagnies because a lot of people relate to them 2) some companies are (trying to) game the system in various ways that violate the spirit but not the letter 3) Reddit is trying to extract profit from all that but isn't being very aggressive about it because they don't have very high operating costs, are VC-backed and they'd rather find something that's compatible with the spirit of the platform and sustainable in the long run.
AND actual syntax

What does "actual syntax" mean here?
> Yes, I "dare" to have an opinion on that syntax.

Is not it stupid, to have an opinion about something you do not know and do not understand?

> It's very uniform which is convenient for implementers.

It's not that uniform, really. It's so flexible that you can make it look any way you like. Any existing language syntax is a subset of this syntax.

> because this uniform soup is hard to scan and also hard to write

Just use a better text editor then.
Yes, if only Sweden was more like Louisiana....
Google Chrome now has its own share button. Pushback please?
tldr: ES6 = standard, SQL support is coming, faster builds and mobile toolchain development a priority. Reactive rendering with Blaze, Angular or React + Meteor is available.
I don't know what "major issue" is, but there is evidence of paleolithic dentistry, long before there were sugar crops.
If that rhetoric had never been used to justify a genocide, would you decide it was actually true?

If not, then the fact that it has, doesn't make it false.

(I make no judgment about the claim itself, just about the argumentation.)
Thousands of mobile app developers feel this pain now, from that particular library.

Not updating these applications is not acceptable to most organizations / device operators.

Just in case anyone thought the parent was sarcasm or theory, some refs:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/heartbleed-bug-apps-affe...

http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/b...
Of course the death penalty and gay marriage are not the same.

As I obviously need to spell it out to you:

- Some people's belief systems are against Gay Marriage

- Some people's belief systems are against the Death Penalty

Which set of personal beliefs is valid? Who decides which one should be allowed?
Whats better about using the "deterrent" excuse compared to the "revenge" truth? Why would it even deter a potential death-row criminal? How many future death-row criminals would have not committed atrocities because of that particular death? Whats the big deterrent about dying compared to the alternative: a life in horrible prison system where you may just die a more unpleasant death anyway?
It should be only with collaborators. Just take a look at how useful this entire thread is. /s
City of Cape Town impounds over 200 Uber cars
Sounds a lot like a grand jury stuffed with hand-picked jurors. We know how that sort of thing usually turns out.

>"During a single four-hour workday last week, a Mecklenburg County grand jury heard 276 cases and handed down 276 indictments.

That means the 18 jurors heard evidence, asked questions, weighed whether the charges merit a trial, then voted on the indictments – all at the average rate of one case every 52 seconds…".

http://www.cato.org/blog/grand-jury-system-joke
Any other language out there is just a subset of Lisp (or any other sufficiently powerful metalanguage). So it's superior simply by definition.

EDIT: downvote count = a number of people who got no clue what meta language is.
So they do read it… just not for advertising?
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I suspected I had to be not quite understanding something, because why would we want, say, a map based on reduce that chokes on lazy lists, in a language where laziness is important.
> You get to the end and all of a sudden the }();

With most code conventions, you wrap immediately invoked function expressions (IIFEs) in parens:

var foo = (function () {
...
}());

The only purpose of those extra parens is to act as marker.

Well, with block scope (`let` & `const`), IIFEs aren't really needed anymore.
Sorry, I'm not as familiar with Plan 9 as I should be. I know that it has (and emphasises) user-space mount, but it is my understanding that the entities exposed to the OS through mounting are files, not processes. (Including through /proc, which exposes a directory tree of files containing data about processes, not processes themselves.)
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GCHQ already has the power to hack into suspects' devices to view content and communications.

Cameron (and May) repeatedly say that they do, in fact, want mandated backdoors.
Not sure about those ethics. If you read the article, the main supply restriction was imposed by the European Commission, following the UK government.

The US company that used to make them "suspended production because it was suffering commercially as a result of having its drug connected to executions," not exactly based on moral principles.

There's also the difference that telecoms have (if secret) court orders mandating them to do so, while drug companies only have a few sales to lose (even at the peak of 300+ executions/year, it's probably not a very lucrative business).
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RISC is ((reduced instruction) set computing), not (reduced (instruction set) computing). That is, the instructions are what's reduced, not the set. What makes an ISA RISC or CISC is how simple or complex each individual instruction is, not how many instructions are in the set.

The point of RISC is that each instruction does one thing and only one thing. There's no addressing modes where a single instruction can access memory, perform some operation on the contents, and write it back into memory. This is why RISC is sometimes described as a strict load/store architecture.
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In case you weren't aware, quantum computers cannot break modern symmetric encryption.
Despite them being overbearing to some, I thought the music and sounds were amazing on this article.

I'm not against of a new kind of media like this. It's subtle and elegant, and very immersive.
Learning lisp is enlightening, but to claim that it's that much more productive than some of the other well designed languages is a stretch.

- Lisp macros are powerful, so the core of the language can be kept simple. However, many languages take an alternate approach and codify the most common programming patterns into their specification. The result is a compromise that works for the majority of cases, and better understood than custom macros.

- Homoiconicity is elegant, but somewhat over rated in practice. Declaratively expressing intent does not require homoiconicity, you can do that in JSON or XML if you agree on a format. Now with lisp, code being data, you can be infinitely more expressive; but at the same time inferring intent out of complex code-as-data is essentially writing a very intelligent macro/parser. There's a cost to it.

- if you're not really gathering the intent from code-as-data, there are ways to do eval() in other languages as well.

- Lisp has not succeeded on a relative scale. Let's not discount that.

- Compilers can optimize well known constructs better than equivalent macros in lisp.

So again, learning lisp is a great idea. But there isn't a one programming paradigm that's universally better than others.
It's awesome! Surprised it wasn't already submitted :).
>I really like how everyone's Hello World looks different.

Because everyone is posting hello world examples in different languages. Lisp is a family, a category of languages, not a single language.
Revenge is a generally recognized goal of criminal punishment.

One of several, and in civilized countries it is considered probably the least important, but it is still lurking out there.

And not in some disturbed mind's weblog. In serious legal literature.
From a Pakistani television debate on the death penalty for blasphemy:

(anti-blasphemy commentator): How do you decide which half of the country gets to be the executioners?
Well, with all the previous relevations we've seen about various 3 and 4 letter agencies, we should have marched long ago.
Given that this can affect anyone from a web page, any coffee shop which uses "n" is vulnerable. And I know of a few I frequent which use 'n'.
I haven't used uBlock yet. I've used Adguard and I find it to be equally good. Adguard too claims to be lightweight and fast.

Does anyone have experience with using both these extensions?
This was after an extended discussion (about an hour) about why this environment sucked for programmers. Got told I was imagining things. Talking with my other technical coworkers, we decided that we would carry on with this. As of when I left, still hadn't changed.
I've always viewed x86 as the worst of both worlds. It lacks the orthogonality of a good CISC, and it lacks the simpleness of a RISC. That modern x86 chips perform so well is despite their inefficient ISA, not because of it. If as much money and research got poured into anything else, it'd perform even better.
> perhaps some quantum superposition of those that has yielded a New Thing.

Ugh. That's not what quantum superposition means.
The issue of ads are a red herring, if you don't control the server, and aren't using end to end mail encryption, your emails aren't private in the sense the author intends: someone else's server is parsing your emails and has accesss to the plaintext. If it's not parsing them for ad keywords it's parsing them for spam filtering or for IMAP search indexing or it's a service that supports web mail and so it has to sanitize the messages to prevent XSS.

Honestly this blog post reads like an ad for SlideMail disguised as community PSA. People interested in mail security should choose more secure options than just avoiding server side processing.

End to end is the only real way to go for personal 1:1 messages you need kept private.
Luckily, adding the "web-like" scripting mode will potentially circumvent this.

“Web like”, where the script is downloaded from the
net for each execution and run by a single signed
app that we provide (NetHMD). Fully specified by
an app-scheme URI, this allows VR experiences to
be launched directly from web pages or app-links
on Facebook, which I think is VERY powerful – read
about how great something is while browsing on your
phone, then just click the link and get the “insert
into HMD” dialog and jump right there. VR scripts
can link to other VR scripts without leaving VR.
There is no direct monetization here, but IAP
can eventually be supported.

I think this is a positive outcome of Facebook owning Oculus. If another hardware company owned it, they would potentially be much more myopic about the "Internet"-related possibilities of VR.
>Clojure is way less verbose than some scheme variants.

Bullshit.
You don't need to fix anything! You're distro should already have handled this for you!! This has almost NOTHING to do with end users.
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How are things going at Packt? Is that the publishing house?
Agree.

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I started to use meteor a month or so ago.
For a person like me, from Java Enterprise land, this tool is refreshing. Glad to see new goodness is coming, especially SQL support.
> [Scheme's syntax is] not that uniform, really.

"Scheme's very simple syntax is based on s-expressions, parenthesized lists in which a prefix operator is followed by its arguments. Scheme programs thus consist of sequences of nested lists."

That's as uniform as it gets. Everything is the same.
When ES6 and web components come out, are we even going to need frameworks like Meteor? It seems like all of the advantages of MVC frameworks go away once you can create controllers and models in native Javascript and views in native HTML.
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Honestly, this isn't meaningful reassurance. I'll grant that the FISA approval rate is a bad number to look at - most approval systems eventually get into a pattern where people only submit things that will get approved.

On the other hand, saying that it's hard to get something to the court means basically nothing unless we trust that the bureaucracy and the court share our standards for "good requests". Having seen what things the FISA court has approved in the past, we can say that the system doesn't work simply because it already hasn't worked.
The trouble is, the repl is only really useful whilst you're extending stump or your configuration. You want to actually control the WM with keybindings, not tapping out lisp into a repl.
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That's what I came here to say. Anymore, I won't even bother to try to read an article when the site shows such contempt for its readers.
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Another apologist.

Cameron has all but said he wants to ban encryption:

“[I]n our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which we cannot read?”, the prime minister asked rhetorically.[0]

I like the UK. They're backwards in some areas of policy, though. And probably have a penchant to control their populace by any means possible.

---

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/cameron...
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That is clearly wrong; they only deserve to suffer as much pain as they inflicted, not as much as possible.

Ideally, offenders eligible for the death penalty should perish in exactly the same circumstances as what they inflicted. Someone who starved an infant to death should be starved; someone who strangled ought to be strangled and so on.

(By and large it's good enough to have them permanently gone by any means. That's the important thing: erasing the mistake.)
And yet they still tell people to install Meteor by piping to their shell. Incredible.

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I enjoyed this, it was a fun presentation and good humored, despite what must have been a temptation to descend into snark at the various UX issues here.
Presumably a riff on "Lisp has no syntax"
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Accomplish for whom is the question.
That's a pretty common thing. I don't see the problem.
The author writes:

"Sometimes (unless I am writing in Go) I don't want to bundle all my code together into one giant hulking binary."

I am unfamiliar with Go - can someone please offer why this technique might especially desirable/feasible with Go?
> I mean, technically speaking (unless there's an RFC, ISO, or ANSI that I'm unfamiliar with), having the same time twice is also "non-standard." The most correct course of action would be to have an 11:59:60, as per the actual leap-second standard.

I believe GP is incorrect (or rather, the overall point that most NTP servers followed the standard and Google's didn't is correct) and most NTP servers did have 11:59:60 as per the standard.
"(I also want to note that for your sake, if you cannot read/write ruby at the level of writing a cookbook than you should really question yourself as an administrator.)"

Ruby is quite complex language. I would say more complex than Python and should not be considered standard. When you use Chef/Puppet it is obviously required but absolutely unnecessary when you have a different setup.

Or perhaps you should not call yourself and administrator if you do not know all the traits of UNIX OS-es.

CFengine "lost" the battle even when it's the fastest one with the smallest performance footprint.
> How is that we have a system where we have an assistant district attorney (now running for DA) who not only openly believes we need to kill more people, but thinks they deserve to suffer as much physical pain as "humanly possible"?

Democracy's a bitch, ain't it?
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If you supply drugs to be used in an execution, you are part of a chain of actions that ends with the intentional taking of a life.

If you bake a cake for a gay couple, you are part of a chain of actions that sort of, kind of, indirectly might offend your sensibilities.

Those two outcomes are vastly dissimilar - equating them because they are both "doing things you object to as a matter of conscience" is too reductionist by half.
So you're saying that the pass/fail ration we see is meaningless because there's effectively a prior filter.

What's the pass/fail ratio for it?
Andy Gavin has a great series of articles on the making of crash bandicoot[0], [1]. (I'd recommend reading the entire series as it's very interesting).

It seems that in order to create an immersive world on the original playstation and keep up the speed of development, iteration and dynamism required for a game he wrote his own compiler (into assembly for the playstation one) for a lisp that he created called Game Oriented Object Lisp (GOOL)[1].

[0] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...

[1] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/

[2] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...
Yes, of course they read it, they must get it into your screen, that counts as "using data."
Improper grammar, starting a sentence with so or this
So I wanted to harp briefly on how irritating it is for a lot of us to read sentences that start with so.

This. What, was that a sentence?
Hack their webserver, replace the contents of https://install.meteor.com/ with malware, instantly pwn anyone who pipes that to their shell.

Worse: the people who are most likely to curl|sh are DevOps folks with the keys to their company's kingdom.
If the evidence bar is so high, why exactly have there never been any arrests made using the data? That is an awful lot of people affected negatively for a zero benefit program. You would think a massive bureaucratic battle to only submit valid warrants would result in at least one arrest.
I really try to keep things open-minded and supportive. Since I have no idea what their conversion metrics look like (much less what kind of internal pressures their design team was facing) I really make an effort to not throw fellow designers under the bus. Glad you picked up on that!
How last night's Leap Second event looked to ntp
I actually thought it was a riff on Erlang's syntax, which is just as annoying a complaint in 2015.
Firstly, Racket is not a Scheme. There are reader macros and all that bells and whistles. Does this look like S-expressions to you?

https://github.com/soegaard/minipascal

Secondly, even most Schemes allow to use [ ] and { } in addition to ( ).