skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate to ask the stupid question, but I've been wondering and it seems to be along the same lines... Why can't this be valid?

int f;
f = 2;

To me this says, there is an int pointer f. Let f point to 2. Is this not possible only because 2 does not occupy memory? I don't see why this couldn't be valid.
I personally didn't understand FP at all until I played around with Erlang (specifically, the "Learn You Some Erlang" book). I reckon Elixir would be similarly enlightening (if not more; I feel like Elixir's macros are easier to wield than most Erlang equivalents, for example).

The friendly, consistent syntax and the imperative-ish constructs in some places can work as a great stepping stone into the rest of the functional/declarative programming world.
The cryptome.org article refers to Europe.

> He was referring to bribery of foreign countries (such as Brazil and Saudi Arabia in his examples) that U.S. and European countries compete to win contracts.

From the first line of the cryptome.org article:
'What is the recent flap regarding Echelon and U.S. spying on European industries all about?'

> Perception != reality

Sorry, they don't have the actual corruption statistics available!
London was destroyed by mass immigration thanks to Blair wanting to rub our faces in diversity.

A young British soldier is butchered in the street with his head sawn off in front of everybody and you're complaining about your rent.
> The Internet has already redistributed earth shattering quantities of wealth in record time.

Given that inequality has been steeply rising, you must mean that it has redistributed wealth further from the poor to the rich.
Mikey Dickerson, who is now running the US Digital Service, was previously involved in the Obama for America campaign. I don't see how we can pretend that politics play no part in this organization.
This is nice. But at the same time, I wonder why we still cannot make light-field displays, i.e., displays where not only the emission of light is controlled, but also the direction. This seems like a more generic approach to the problem.
Uber Buys Microsoft Mapping Tech
Exactly. Dark matter and dark energy is just a symptom of the standard model of physics being incorrect.

>Dark matter neither emits nor absorbs light or any other electromagnetic radiation at any significant level. According to the Planck mission team, and based on the standard model of cosmology, the total mass–energy of the known universe contains 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy.[2][3] Thus, dark matter is estimated to constitute 84.5% of the total matter in the universe, while dark energy plus dark matter constitute 95.1% of the total mass–energy content of the universe.[4][5][6]

Science is literally religious faith.
I don't even know what to say ... 9800 lines of assembly is so few. I am very impressed. I think I might use more lines writing this in a "modern" language.

Game developers always impress me.
For this domain which is largely compute bound when it counts, for the PC systems it was targeting back in those days, C was almost certainly the right choice if you had enough resources for the extra programming work required.

Commercial Macsyma is ... a special, and rather sad case. As explained to me by Danny Hillis in 1982-3 when he wished my company, LMI, could provide Lisp Machines for Thinking Machines, Inc. to help develop the Connection Machine 1, one motivation was Symbolics' pathological business practices, and the nastiest example then was Macsyma. Back then the MIT Technology Licensing office was still horrible, and it was arranged that Arthur D. Little, I think, recommend how Macsyma be licensed, and it ended up being exclusively to Symbolics, which was not a common approach.

As far as we could tell, Symbolics bought it primarily to keep it out of the hands of LMI and anyone wanting to run it on conventional hardware, and went so far as to try to get people who have Vaxsyma copies to send them back and stop using it, which was not well received as you might imagine. That helped Fateman, using the DoE which had sponsored much of the work, to force MIT to release a snapshot as open source, which eventually became Maxmia.

In house, Symbolics treated it with benign neglect, and I don't think it was massively improved. This situation became ironic as their hardware business declined and the Macsyma unit became an important cash cow, but as these things go, for the usual internal political reasons, it never got development resources commensurate with its actual status and potential.

MIT also didn't reward the people who'd originally written it at MIT, something Joel Moses, who I happened to be directly reporting to in the 1987-8 time frame when he was the EECS department head, was obviously not happy with, along with I'm sure many others. So in short, Symbolics did nearly everything they could to mess up the Macsyma community and product, and the noted decline, once there were good alternatives, was inevitable.

RMS is not 100% wrong in his loathing of Symbolics....
I don't think we are trying to compete with Twitch on features, what differentiates us is our focus on live education rather than being for entertainment (though some streams can be pretty amusing!). Further, members of our community are passionate about coding or learning to code, so it is a different audience than Twitch's audience.
Curious what your blog is about, because people who use bing normally don't pick it, they just use it because whatever they last installed made it the default.
Pannellum, a Lightweight Panorama Viewer for the Web
What, no tent??
Or one might mean that it has redistributed the other way, while other factors in society were redistributing from the poor to the rich, and that the net imbalance would be far worse without the mitigating effect of the internet.

Your presentation presumes that the internet is the only redistributive factor that existed in the time under consideration.
Making the assumption that laws are like code with strictly defined execution paths makes you lose out on jury nullification, among other benefits.
Copying and pasting with CapsLock? That's pretty clever.

Although the source is not complicated, it might still be a good idea to //comment your code so newbies can see exactly what's going on.
Thanks for pinging back with attention.

> voluntary associations of the toiling masses

With the mighty overhead of just-plain-survival (the main reason that the poor tend to stay poor), I'm sad to say that's never going to happen.

I think what humans as a species really needs is a planet wide support system that takes care of the food/shelter/clothing/sewage problem. But we're so deeply wired for paranoia, group think, and solipsism that that's impossible too.
Meh. Do you think the French are governed by a government with actual autonomy to go wherever the people wish to be led, or just pretend autonomy within a narrow range of bouncing a little to the left or right within the neoliberal framework?
How World War III became possible: it's likelier than you think
I've seen the site quoted in The Guardian (a newspaper of record).

Feel free to investigate their methods, and report back! I take them as being somewhat credible. As do you by your own admission.
True energy independence goes both ways, which very few people are willing to accept.

People will install solar panels and enjoy not writing a check to the utility every month. But if their home battery breaks during a heat wave, they're not going to sit in an un-air-conditioned house and and think, "well at least I'm independent." No, they're going to expect the grid to send them power when they need it.

So while independent generation is a good idea, it's not likely to result in infrastructure savings. In fact the kind of smart grid that would be needed to deal with such widely varying local loads would almost certainly be more expensive than just maintaining what we've got.

It's worth remembering that electric generation started out as a very local and independent thing. Central generation won because it was cheaper and more reliable--despite the seemingly obvious losses and expenses of such a huge network.
Is this the only instance of this species? Why doesn't it have other instances elsewhere that behave the same way?
Yes, they were the bane of my existence.
I'm so tired of the thoughtless repetition of this talking-point. Yes, some technologies developed serendipitously for luxury products. But when you take a broader view than the latter half of the 20th century, most of the technological progress that actually made our lives better were the results of targeted effort: wastewater treatment, antibiotics, essentially all medications. We didn't get to these things accidentally.

Maybe those technologies were expensive at first and came down in price with adoption, but that's different than making the claim that if we just work on whatever rich people want today, we'll automatically get to places that are beneficial for society. Want to help the third-world feed itself? Perhaps you should invest your resources in that, not in a silicon valley nutri-shake startup.

Hell, most of your examples are cases where the military did something to solve a known problem that was too expensive (or too speculative) to be left to private industry. How you turn that into an argument that our best-and-brightest should be working on ad-optimization eludes me.

This industry, I swear: we whine about the loss of space exploration, and wonder what happened to our flying cars, but we brush off criticisms when someone invests millions of dollars in the sixty-seventh niche food-delivery service for the SF bay area. Perhaps the two things are related?
They wouldn't have developed a smallpox vaccine if it didn't affect rich people.
> But, in all seriousness, the 9 lines + 7 files are damning. It also shows that the engineers who implemented Google's project had been tainted by exposure to Java.

I think that's one of the key points. How can you claim a clean-room implementation, when there are (small) portions that have been directly copied? It weakens the case for the rest of the code.
The first port of Unix (1998) [pdf]
Happy that they chose an open source technology, but is it necessary to force git on people that would prefer to use something else?
If we are serious about addressing these risks however, the cost of hardening only critical electrical infrastructure that we can't turn off, like hospitals, ATC, nuclear power plant control systems, should be a lot less than hardening everything.
Given the lack of details about grading/sources/plantations of the underlying teas, I doubt that knowledgeable tea drinkers would make use of this.
Same with Los Angeles as well. I can almost guarantee you that Apple will at some point (possibly later this year?) include an NFC chip in the iPad line-up with a new app that will allow you to receive payment with Apple ID. Also the fact that they are making an Android application for Apple Music leads me to believe they will support Google Wallet or any NFC payment method as well.
Actually Uber would be a very sustainable way to constantly street-map a lot of cities if they just put cameras on the cars' roofs.
What are the implications if Google loses?

Is Google going to switch to another language for Android development? Apple has already showed it is possible.
'Tonne' works in Australia, India and most commonwealth countries and former colonies too.

Generally when things are different between English and American English, the English one is more widely used due to colonialism.
Skype MSNP protocol docs on GitHub
Lua's pattern matching rules
Can it be put behind a flag? If some library fails to compile, toss the flag into the toolchain invocation and try again?
I just know I'm going to forget and write "July 1" on all the checks I write then anyways
>FFS, we still have (apparently) well-respected philosophers insisting on duality. P-zombies are actually (from what I can tell) debated.

The key word there is apparently. No, you are not made of magic.

>So, sure, there's plenty being said and perhaps some not-totally-worthless ideas. But nothing even remotely close to explaining consciousness. Sure, perhaps it's really, really, hard, but lets not pretend we've made any useful progress.

Or in other words, you haven't actually looked in any neuroscience or cognitive science journals.
Chrome/ium apparently has had built-in support for a while:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/user-sc...
There'd have to be so much of it that we'd see it. There's way more dark matter than normal matter in the universe (stipulating that dark matter theories as we currently understand them are at a coarse level correct).

If it were "dark dust," there would be enough of it that we would be able to detect it through means other than gravitational ones.
MAGI Synthavision Demo Reel (1980) [video]
It would kind of defeat the point of publishing an API, wouldn't it? "Here's my API, but you can't use it without violating my copyright." Well, then, you might as well not have published it.

But the issue here is actually re-implementing the API, not calling it. The court could rule that an API could be copyrighted (and therefore freely called, but not freely re-implemented). The result would be that an API becomes a one-way interface. You couldn't have multiple competing implementations, you could only have one. That's still a big change for the software landscape...
The original judge in lower court actually taught himself coding to understand the case and came to the conclusion that APIs were not subject to copyrights (ie. he understood the issue). How the appellate court could come to a different conclusion is utterly beyond me.
looks like you don't support jekyll sites yet
Do you know if there's research into whether VR is harmful for your eyes? Obviously not short-term, but if you played a couple hours a day, would it be bad for your eyes? That's my biggest concern.
That doesn't seem obvious. There are people working on banking, advertising, business software development, etc. in pretty much every major city. Why shouldn't the same be true of Epic Problems?

You can direct your work efforts towards goals that are important/meaningful to you without necessarily sacrificing everything else in your life. Conversely you can give up a good deal of your life to work on unimportant problems, and many people do.
Another description of the same events: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/...
Automakers are notoriously bad at code [1][2][3], and consumers are bad at getting their car fixed if there is a recall [4]. I cannot see how connected vehicle security will go well.

[1] http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_s... (look at slide 36)

[2] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2895535/microsoft-subnet...

[3] https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece649/lectures/20_sweng_crit_sys.p...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/business/recalled-used-car...
Doesn't that entirely depend upon whether you think you'll be more effective than some other person making 60k/yr?

In other words, if you're a "10x" malaria killer and if 10xers are rare in the malaria killing business, then probably it's better for everyone (except you) that you kill malaria for a living. Rather than paying someone 60k to take your place (esp. if that other person is a 1xer or -10xer.)
Some context, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Applications_Grou...:

> Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. (a.k.a. MAGI or MAGI/Synthavision) was an early computer technology company founded in 1966 by Dr. Philip Mittelman and located in Elmsford, New York, where it was evaluating nuclear radiation exposure. In 1972, the graphics group called MAGI/SynthaVision was formed at MAGI by Robert Goldstein.

> It was one of four companies hired to create the CGI animation for the film Tron. MAGI was responsible for the most of the CGI animation in the first half of Tron, while Triple-I work mainly on the second half of the film. MAGI modeled and animated the light cycles, recognizers and tanks.
Software is tool, not a business plan
That's not true. Inadvertent similarity can still be copyright infringement. Sam Smith's "Stay with Me" is a good recent example.
Thanks for your constructive feedback.
Last week, a judge announced that a merger between Sysco and U.S. Foods would be illegal. The order points out that a combined Sysco – U.S. Foods entity would dominate the market for broadline food distributors and give Sysco the ability to charge ultra-competitive prices.

How does Sysco do it? It's not technology. The URL above describes system requirements for using Sysco's web application. Among other things, it states "eSYSCO does not currently support Macintosh OS" and "we highly recommend Internet Explorer version 6.0".

Technology does not change economic reality. From an economic perspective, Uber and Facebook have more in common with Sysco than they do with (name your favorite calendar app). These companies enjoy profitability today, not because they are technology companies, but because they have monopoly power.
Because dust would emit something, especially while being hot from nearby stars radiation. It would also absorb waves from background, to some degree. Dust and gasses are pretty familiar guys, comparing to dark matter.
"Dark dust" would, in many circumstances, have at least an infrared signature (or, rather, a signature that originates in the infrared, even if it has shifted considerably downward by the time we see it). This stuff is "dark" in the sense that the only effects we can see at all (so far, at least) are gravitational. In terms of what we think we do know, that implies mass - but mass that doesn't interact with light except insofar as it distorts spacetime.
I think his solution is a little bit tongue in cheek - it shows how much easier it is to solve using transactional memory compared to low-level concurrency primitives. So it cheats by using very powerful techniques instead of the very weak ones that the post says to use. You couldn't use his solution in C++ for instance, because C++ doesn't come with garbage collection or transactional memory.
For reference, I'd kick myself for undercharging if I billed that much for a week, and correspondingly consider it "annoying but not business-critical" if I had trouble collecting it. Charge more.

Your rates should not be pinned to a lowball bid for an annual salary for a newly minted CS student. You're assuming far more risk, and hang around just long enough to deliver major value and get out, rather than being just productive enough that it's not worthwhile to hire someone to replace you.

You need to operate like a business that is delivering a high-value service in exchange for a reasonable fee. And you should probably narrow down your offering & marketing to the point that you have very few direct competitors, and practically none once you account for location and availability.
A google query? What does it even mean for a google query to be "100% right"? I'm not sure that's even a thing.

But I think you misunderstand software engineering and the nature of engineering skill or fields of experience. There may be no such thing as "100% right" when it comes to which hits are included in the result set for a google query, but I have no doubt that nearly any google engineer needs to write all sorts of code on a regular basis that indeed needs to be 100% right with regard to specifications or requirements.
So the reason that they spy on foreign companies is that they hope they can catch bribery going on (if they had credibly evidence without the espionage they wouldn't need the espionage in the first place, thus there must happen that they spy on innocents).

Once they find evidence of corruption they confront the government that is buying, not the one that could punish the company. Clearly the crime of corruption is not of importance to the CIA (why would it, they use it to recruit, and they aren't a police anyway).
You're exactly right, and that's what we designed for with UPower. I would have written the exact same thing when we began talking about doing something in nuclear 5 years ago.

Too many reactors are designed without the market or financing in mind.

We decided on the simplest possible reactor optimized to a size useful to a market in dire need- just MW scale.

It has no pumps, no water in the reactor, and builds upon a legacy of data so that there will be minimal fuel and materials qualification, which adds up very quickly in both time and money.

Why hasn't it been done before? The key, as you bring up, is in manufacturing, simplicity, a relatively new and hugely growing microgrid market that didn't exist much before, and a business model that doesn't require the customer to buy the unit as opposed to power purchase.
> Why not take rich people's money for taxis, and then donate how ever much of your salary to charities that are trying to fight malaria you think is appropriate?

That's a great thing to do.

It doesn't directly address the problem of insufficient talent being directed to those projects, though of course the money might allow the people running those projects to offer more to talent, which might deal with the problem.

Of course, choosing to work on the project yourself deals with that issue more directly.
Implementation was never a problem in this case
Nobody claimed a clean room implementation because it had nothing to do with the case
What about austin?
There is no such a thing as "carbohydrate addiction", our body is built to live off carbohydrates, there is no reason why you should be able get addicted to carbohydrates any more than you can get addicted to water.

Obesity is a real illness. Overeating is one of its symptoms and not its cause. Obese people gain weight because they feel hungry too much and too often. In fact, some people's caloric intake doesn't even seem to be limited by their appetite, but by the volume of food they're able to consume. There is no way you could blame people's neglience or a lack of self control anymore, people simply shouldn't WANT to eat that much. There is either something wrong with our food (like some unrecognized vital nutirents missing) or there is some other thing that breaks our metabolism.
I've been seeing these around neighborhoods in London - small half oval bicycle storage lockers the size of a street parking space that can hold 10 bikes (can't recall the name at the moment).
Apple changed the language, but kept the APIs mostly the same.
Ah you're right. Don't know how I got from 1920 oz to 192 drinks—unless you consider 10oz of vodka a drink!
Sorry (there was some confusion below):

Dragon 2 has a powered escape system. Dragon 1 just has parachutes for the recovery phase.

You safe the parachutes for the ascent phase because they're dangerous. If they accidentally trigger, you lose the whole rocket due to structural failure from the sudden forces. You'd most likely lose the capsule/chute at this point too.

A chance of recovering the cargo in the event of an incident like this just isn't considered worth it.
Ummm... this is kind of thing is well in line with the history of science. Clearly dark matter is a fudge factor to make the current model of physics work. Obviously there is a flaw here somewhere, so there are multiple competing theories of which dark matter & dark energy are but one for explaining this. Some theories are more popular than others...

But pretty much within 5 years of a new falsifiable theory that can explain the situation which can be experimentally proven dark matter will go the way of the myriad of disproven theories... whereas religious faith would extend the belief in dark matter out for possibly thousands of years after it is shown to be experimentally incorrect.

So not 'literally' religious faith at all...