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> I now am embarrassed to share that my SU colleagues, on hearing about my attempt to secure your presentation, have warned me that the BDS faction on campus will make matters very unpleasant for you and for me if you come.

Not really about political correctness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sancti...

vmorgulison ClausIE: Clause-Based Open Information Extraction

I found a Stanford Parser jar file in the sources of ClauseIE.

http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/index.jsp

vmorgulison Ask HN: If I wanted to make a web browser, where would I start?

Instrument an existing browser and synthetize a new layout engine with machine learning and superoptimisation.

vmorgulison Simple diet tricks for asm.js

Interesting. Thank you.

vmorgulison Simple diet tricks for asm.js

> Even with exception support disabled, you can still throw them, you just can't catch them in C++ land.

Is something printed in the console under emscripten if an exception is thrown?

vmorgulison HTTP Observatory: analyze your website and review available methods to secure it

On itself: https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze.html?host=observator...

> Score: 120/100

vmorgulison How to allocate memory

That's so simple! Thank you a lot.

vmorgulison How to allocate memory

Interesting idea.

Another way of improvement is to use alloca() for small local (to function) objects but there is no direct way to know if a variable is local or not (in C and C++ at least).

> We can, but then convincing the rest of the world to change such a basic building block of C code is quite hard.

I can be made with static analysis or binary instrumentation.

vmorgulison SDLang: Simple Declarative Language

From a previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364958

vmorgulison Python JITs are coming

Yes but you can bootstrap the compiler.

vmorgulison Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right

From the UN Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 25.

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/inde...

vmorgulison Python JITs are coming

Very interesting point of view.

I see a fourth option:

- compile the scripting language to C (like Crystal for Ruby)

vmorgulison The French sci-fi comic that inspired Blade Runner and Akira

Valérian et Laureline for Star Wars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline

vmorgulison Ask HN: What are the best programming languages?

- A language that can optimize its own execution (like a jit) with SVM, neural networks or superoptimization. For example, the language can change the memory layout at runtime depending on the data or use SIMD instructions automatically.

- A compiler that can target any platform. With the same techniques as above, the compiler can discover the primitives of the target with fuzzing.

vmorgulison Tyre – Typed regular expressions

A linq interface to visit the resulting parse tree.

vmorgulison Gopherpedia: The Gopher Interface to Wikipedia

GitHub: https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000

From a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280749

vmorgulison The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

Very interesting ideas.

It reminds me Xanadu (without the entanglement):

http://xanadu.com/Ping'n'Jeff.png

My idea for Gopher is to convert webpages on the fly with a text browser like elinks.

vmorgulison Why your open source project needs marketing help