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> Unfortunately, today’s programming models and languages don’t offer any mechanism for such dynamic recovery from faults. Sounds like somebody needs to learn about Erlang. > In June 2012, members of an international forum composed
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That is the intended outcome.
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> The only reason they have the enterprise customers is because they got popular with open source first. I have absolutely no idea how GitHub could have lost sight of this simple fact.
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Adding a script that builds the project from “maintainer state” and referencing it in the README may save you some aggravation.
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It follows that sales teams should rob banks.
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PragmataPro. Here you go: http://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
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State could be stored to something like Amazon S3 and referenced using a unique ID, which would then become part of the URL given to the user.
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> I don't understand why AI safety gets more attention. Solving AI would allow us to fix ageing, but only if we get it right. Please watch Bostrom’s TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_bostrom_what_happen
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It’s not as bad as you think — “Don’t Panic”: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-p... If you can’t spare an hour, please watch Rosling’s TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/
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> Why quantity over quality? That’s a false dichotomy. Please disregard my one-liner, and watch one of de Grey’s talks instead — or read his “When Quality and Quantity Do Not Compete”: http://online.liebertpub.com.sci-hub.io
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http://sens.org/ . Humans need more lifespan, badly. I’d have said AI safety, but it’s already on your list. Excellent. I’d also have said basic income. Good to know you’re on it. Meta-research. Academic publishing is obsole
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> The only way you can run Lion nowadays is if you find a working machine that has Lion installed on it. No. If you’ve previously purchased OS X Lion, you can still download it via the App Store, but it won’t be included in your list o
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> He was truly very dull, something he himself admitted You may wish to rethink this.
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What do you really know about George W. Bush? http://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/
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If people have the means to support themselves while studying for 10 years, why not let them study for 10 years? They are certainly not receiving a scholarship for these 10 years.
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Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”: http://www.thomasgray.org.uk/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc Found via a Usenet post from 1998: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.
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Note it is possible to emulate NewtonOS on OS X and, yes, on iOS. https://twitter.com/allaboutjake/status/664708492226404353 https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein
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The code has been on GitHub for a while. https://github.com/evanw/webgl-water
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> There were holdouts in Europe originally, some central banks were slow to adopt fractional reserves. They were trounced by the economies of other European nations and their superior access to liquid capital. Which countries were thes
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“GSMem: Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Computers over GSM Frequencies” https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...
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This paper was published in 1993, and not 1998, as the HN title currently says. You may wish to read the excellent Wired article from 2008 about the somewhat eccentric author of this paper, Piotr Woźniak. http://www.wired.com&#x2
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Yes, written in pointless style. You could make it less pointless by replacing the (.)s with a point. \xs -> take 5 (filter p (drop 3 xs)) https://wiki.haskell.org/Pointfree
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Yes, let’s. http://sens.org
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There have been some fantastic pull requests. Examples: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/253 https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/272
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> OS X combines a proven UNIX foundation with the easy-to-use Mac interface to bring multicore technology and 48-bit power to the mass market. 48-bit power?…
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Also, it appears that a mirror of A/UX Penelope is still up, even after its original maintainer has shut it down. http://www.aux-penelope.com
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It might be worth pointing out that there is a Macintosh II emulator built solely for the purpose of running A/UX. https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill A mirror of the well-known A/UX software repository, Jagub
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You are correct, but you are probably being downvoted because it is difficult to relate to your point of view. How many “sub-Turing-complete” languages can you list? Note “sub-Turing-complete” may not be the right term to use for all langua
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Let’s start with the Holodomor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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> This works great for things with patterns, but it doesn't work with language. Sure it does. http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ > Hawkins' mantra is sequence base

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