jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Depends on what you want to use it for.

If you want to create powerful, intricate production apps, you're probably better off with CL. It's got better libraries, a bigger community, and more history.

If, on the other hand, you're interested in learning Lisp for the purity, the "aha" moments, and to become a better programmer, I'd have to recommend Scheme. It's a lot simpler, more self-consistent, with an order of magnitude less confusing bits and "gotchas". But it's still every bit as good at showing why Lisp is awesome.

And, of course, I must mention Clojure, which aside from the JVM cruft is much "cleaner" than CL, but just as powerful and ready for production use. It's also even more intensely focused on functional programming than Scheme OR CL.
It gets even weirder:

parseInt('10', {test: 'test'})
10

parseInt('10', 'test')
10

parseInt('10', '2')
2
Clickable link

http://letsannotate.com
http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/index.html
> Apple employs a few (more than 1?) LLVM people, but it's hardly an Apple project by any means.

They employ around two dozen LLVM developers, comprising half to two-thirds of the regular committers.
>And if you've made it this far in life without ever observing it yourself or hearing any first hand accounts, maybe that has more to do with your own biases and the way you treat women than anything else.

Oh so not having observed a claimed bias that is inherently unobservable - but still claimed as in the sibling comment (how can you tell that the teacher graded people lower rather than them simply attaining a lower level; people don't achieve equally in exams to their on going work) - not having made this observation makes me a misogynist??

"the way you treat women"? Excuse me, do you even know me.

Perhaps my scientific wants mean that I require proof where others are willing to accept hearsay and anecdote.

Approaching your anecdotal evidence as a crime, as what you claim surely is, one might ask what the motivation of the alleged offender was - why would it matter to a teacher what sex the student is. Are you sure that the teacher didn't just dislike your [now] wife; you're not yourself biased? What did her parents say, or were they complicit? Don't schools in your country care about abuse of power? Did she bother to say "like Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Lise Meitner, ..." granted I can't think of too many examples in the upper-echelons but a clear proof that the teacher was wrong. Is it possible that the teacher was attempting to motivate her, this sort of thing does happen.

What school was it, who was the teacher?
Ahead of vandalism this is the biggest problem Wikipedia faces. It’s not at all easy to decide, given limited resources, what is worthy of inclusion. Consequently that selection process turned into this huge monster in the German Wikipedia, with meters of rules and guidelines [1]. The battles fought to keep or delete an article are epic and entertaining but also the single biggest conflict in the community.

It’s certainly not easy to decide what can be maintained and what cannot. The English Wikipedia is quite a bit more inclusive than the German one and when I want to find something obscure I tend to search the English one first. My perception is also that in general, the German Wikipedia has higher quality or more complete articles, but that’s something I could just be imagining.

I certainly don’t know who picked the right compromise or if anyone did.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ARK
I can attest to the fact that setting up a Clojure/Emacs/Slime/Leiningen environment is a huge PITA. Something like Clojure Box helps, but it sacrifices flexibility in favor of ease of use and hides a lot of underlying configuration from a new user. A big part of the problem is a lack of a "canonical" setup; if you Google around for Clojure and Slime most directions you find will be out of date, highly personalized, or both. They will probably involve checking projects out of a multitude of repos (be they CVS, SVN, or Joe Blow's GitHub branch) and copying mystifying emacs configuration without really understanding what it all does. And then, after all of that, it still might not work. God help you if you want to get it all to work under Windows.

Don't get me wrong, I love Clojure and I... well, I don't hate Emacs, but it's frustrating to have to deal with a lot of setup when one just wants to hack in a new language.
That's quite probably true. But I am a web-developer, not a resume-writer.

If I don't give someone a resume, they can't make any assumptions based on it. If instead I send them to my personal website, or to my GitHub account then they can ony make assumptions off of the concrete things that I have done. That's very much how I prefer it...
But it's likely that ranch owners were once ranch hands.
I'd like to think that we and others like us had something to do with pressuring Apple to add pulse back to the app store.
His points on older prestige vehicles are true. I own two older BMWs which are in good condition, well kept and maintained. Most casual observers date the cars at 4-5 years old, instead of the actual 10-12 years they are. It is helped that they aren't used for a commute so are able to be kept clean and tidy and mileage low. I have these cars because they are built to a higher standard and are a pleasure to drive and own, with more features on them than you can get on most 'ordinary' new cars.

Friends think we 'have money' because of the cars, but they don't realise that both cars are probably worth less than what they have lost in depreciation in the last two years on their own cars.

But I stress the major reason for owning these cars is because of the superior build quality, safety and features as compared to other cars in a similar price range.
Not quite sure how you came to that conclusion when the first two sentences of the post are "This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business. No joke."
Yes two generations of train stations closed because of bomb scares, of weekly news reports of a new bomb blast.
I am thankful for being lucky to lead a happy, healthy life, having loving parents and a decent job.
Precisely. Whether you're getting shot down in dating or "not being accepted" for the <x> slots for YC, at the end of the day it is the same thing-- you / your pitch are coming up short in their opportunity cost calculation.

Frankly, who gives a damn whether they like your idea if they're not willing to invest?

Kind words and happy thoughts are cheap.
I'm sure you've written better comments in the past, but countering his argument with sarcasm and no facts shows no class at all.

This is exactly the kind of reply I don't want to see on HN.
> In 2010-11, the Wikimedia Foundation plans to increase revenue 28% to $20.4 million.

From page 12 of said pdf.
Supposedly there is a mathematical reason for the 2-2-1-2-2-2-1 spacing of the major scale. If you take all possible pairs of notes in the diatonic scale, you get a richer distribution of intervals than you can produce with any other seven-note selection from the twelve note scale. Similarly, the classic pentatonic scale provides the best set of intervals for any five-note selection from the twelve. A better set of intervals might lead to a better choice of chords too.

This is my somewhat fuzzy recollection from a paper I read a long time ago. Someone out there can check with three lines of R, right?
Yes, some study. The success rates for any specific intervention for depression is quite low. It's hard to separate the success of the intervention from acting better for your doctor due to social pressure and simply growing out of the issue.
The scope of what I'm talking about is bigger than yours. Cities are more efficient, and we need to move more people into them (not just the ones that are big right now, just to cities in general) to give ourselves a better shot at keeping our planet habitable in the long run.

To your second point - degradation of infrastructure is not an issues with cities, it's an issue with management and investment. On a practical level, with additional people should come additional industry and tax revenue which should in turn allow metropolitan areas to keep pace infra-wise.
Reminds me of IP over Avian Carriers thing [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
So much screen-staring time can be saved with just pen and paper. We need to learn to do it more often.
It's super easy in case you are a talented young person. See Canada's point base migration system or Blue Card for EU.
They probably came up with that by buying at a price less than that
https://archive.is/4OI1H
Please don't make these insulting and condescending comments, this is against the site guidelines. If you think my understanding is wrong then just explain it, you don't have to insult me. Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is. AppImages (or really any similar packaging method) also technically run on very nearly every single distro on the planet so if those were improved, it seems like that would change some of your criticism. You don't have to value my suggestions, that's why they're suggestions and not requirements.

Although I guess I don't understand, where is your criticism coming from if not from a period of past or current frustration with the filesystem organization? I'm only responding to the criticism as you wrote it because I think there are ways that the core problem can be solved. From the point of view of how we solve it, it doesn't seem like it is a different thing. Does that make sense?
> People that don't understand tech should not be on the internet.

Your elitist, anti-inclusive rhetoric is unnecessary.

> They don't understand the concept of people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard.

If one of the main claims is "the media lies" then obviously they understand that.

There are valid criticisms but these are not them.
I think your comment was not well received because it compares the stock market to laws of physics and gravity, limits GME investor psychology to a) hubris or b) ignorance, describes a market exchange as a Ponzi scheme, proposes that millions of people may have been hurt by this event without defining what hurt means, and (now) expresses the view that anyone who is decent at mathematical or analytical thinking would automatically agree with you.
Fair enough, I am no vaccine expert. So, what I got from sciency layman's info is the following: Long term effects are called that because the sustain for a long time, not because they kick in after a long time. Second take away, these effects for vaccines show themselves in the first couple of weeks and months. Given that we started trials almost a year ago and serious vaccination campaigns months ago with literally millions of people vaccinated, and still being monitored under Phase 4 trials if I remember well (which are standard for drugs and so), it is highly unlikely that any side effects have not been discovered yet. Sounds reasonable and logic to me, but then I have all vaccinations that are recommended were I live. Plus some optional ones. Neither do I read through al the potential side effects before I take drugs.
If you're not familiar with the author, Dan Davies, he's been a contributor at Crooked Timber (http://crookedtimber.org). A great intro would be his choose-your-own-adventure intro to the Greek financial crisis from 2012 (http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/16/so-what-would-your-plan-...).

Paul Krugman called this post from 2004 one of the great blog posts of our era: https://dsquareddigest.wordpress.com/2004/05/27/108573518762...
I was debating doing this over AR. The value prop to the restaurant is incredible: no $2k upfront investment, no ongoing theft or breakage of expensive pager devices, demonstrable revenue boost, and if you're clever you can get people to sign up for SMS marketing.
It really isn't. There are two separate issues which are being mixed here.

1. Browser is not as bad as the OP suggested and will improve with the next update to a decent level of HTML5/CSS3 (Microsoft has turned a leaf with IE9, not perfect but infinitely better than "IE6.5")

2. The 1.5 million WP7 phones sold over the launch period (the last 6 weeks) won't even replace the current number of Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone sales as they get phased out from corporate sales. Now there is a smartphone with a dog of a browser.

To be in the game, Microsoft needs much more than 1.5 million sales. They need more than this to make it worthwhile for their manufacturing partners (divide the sales amongst HTC, Dell, LG and Samsung).

This is not a disaster like the Kin but it isn't really good news for them.
Good post. I think the same holds true for the NSXMLParser delegate (and probably many others, I'm still new to iOS).

The "foundCharacters" method is sometimes called multiple times before reaching the end of an element so it's best to assume you're receiving only part of the data.
Amazing! Serious props to Andrew Warner for setting this up. Going to watch it as soon as I get a chance.
All these words could be translated into native languages, except iPhone which is a brand.
I know that Quebec, for one, is horrible for contests/competitions. Something to do with having to give the province 10% of the value of the contest prizes.
The fundamental problem with this is that figuring out how much you owe the public takes time. If I'm found passed out on the street (say, due to a stroke, or even just from slipping and hitting my head), I'd prefer to be treated immediately, and we'll work out payment after.

There's also the problem that a significant portion of these costs (though likely not the majority) are incurred on law enforcement, not on medical care. Simply denying law enforcement is only going to make the problem worse.
Just shared the link to this thread on the HaXe mailing list - there are far more experienced users who could give a better understanding of the language and it's uses than I can.
If anyone does not recognize dyoo, the owner of hashcollision.org is also the author of Whalesong, a Racket->Javascript system. I think it has been discussed before on HN.

https://github.com/dyoo/whalesong

Needless to say, if this guy is fudging Racket, I am not sure what we can say about the rest of us and what we do with the language. Haha.

EDIT: Was the author, it seems he passed it off to another Racketer now that he is busy with other stuff. Should have clicked the link before posting.

https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong
That is one of the few PhD programs whose graduates can find industry jobs, and whose graduates also intend to find industry jobs.
I think it's not just friendship, it's a feeling of connectedness and community that comes from knowing people in your neighborhood and being known.

For five years I lived in a rundown SF unit with no laundry on site. Every week my wife and I would drop our clothes at a nearby family run wash and fold. Over years of little interactions we started to develop a semblance of friendship and real fondness for the owner. Twice a week I got a nice pleasant/personal experience, and that was from outsourcing a single chore.

I also use services like Sprig/Google Shopping Express/Amazon Prime, because they are awesome, convenient, and cheap. But as a result I rarely buy from the nearby corner store, and have not developed personal connections from any of these transactions. I have saved money and time, but it has cost me in social satisfaction. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

As you point out, there might be active interventions to try and replace this connection (e.g. volunteering), but the default has shifted from "get to know the people around you through transactions" to "receive goods and services anonymously."
Why is it people can't ever respond to sanity, but instead assume idiocy?

You measure page faults in terms of milliseconds, I was not suggesting you even out the cryptographic timings to the tune of milliseconds, especially when you consider most cryptographic functions are setup specifically to take longer than that.

There is a delta that you can come up with such that things like page faults fall within it and it would still have acceptable performance. All but the most pounded of servers would be able to fall within it with no problem whatsoever.
Not at all, I actually find that reason much more believable than the one he gives (joining Morgan Stanley to solve real world problems).
Not sure if I feel jealous or aghast that they are going to rewrite everything because apple launched swift... Must be amazing to work someplace with those kinds of developer resources
Been a while since chem & physics class for me as well.

How are these estimations calculated, and to what certainty? Surely, these are calculations only from the observable universe?
Even fishes, too.
Joe Nickell is an author who's written extensively on this subject. He's a paranormal investigator who happens to also be a Ph.D. folklorist, and his folkloric interpretations of many modern phenomena can be extremely compelling.
Something's wrong with those numbers. Udacity raised 35M in 2014, but it says "valuation"
Tangential to the story, but, using `_.defaults` prevents the extra object allocation and reduces the syntax.

`var jalapeño = _.defaults(jalapenoFromJSON, apple);`
I really do think putting "Obama" in the title is complete sensationalism. Yeah, he would get the figurative "kill switch" - but he didn't request it nor is there any proof of endorsement (?). Just read the comments - they mention BS anti-Obama propaganda just because his name is mentioned in the article.
I moved from Slicehost to prgmr to Linode. I like Linode the best of the three.
We're not really living much longer. More people are reaching old age, pushing average life expectancy up.

Remember that whenever you hear a curious claim like "But back then, 40 was considered elderly!" Never was.
3. Do all star/ninja/rock-star software developers have rotten attitudes?

No. The very best of the best know that work in a for-profit business corporation is teamwork, and they know how to build up their colleagues so that the whole team is stronger. (Source: an immediate relative who works in the industry.)

Meanwhile, don't let the bastards grind you down (to quote Joseph Stillwell). Just build yourself up. Learn new skills every day. That's what everyone in your industry has to do, really.

AFTER EDIT: Sensing disagreement from someone who has surfed by, I would like to know more about your observations of the workplace where you work. I'm in earnest about my comment; the developers I know who have the top skill levels as coders are also more than happy to help build up the skill level of the whole team.
so can someone post a link to a tool or tools where one can decode these dots?
I have so far stuck with Clojure instead of a Scheme primarily because of the nice literal syntax for maps, sets, vectors, and regexes that Clojure supports. I don't want to give that up and just use cons/car/cdr.

And also, last time I looked at Racket, it seemed very focused on academics. I just wanted to write some simple Scheme in a .scm file and try it out (a script), but I think I had to choose a language first (maybe a line at the top of the file? Don't recall) --- the Racket ecosystem seemed off-putting.
Well, the biggest issue with PHP in my opinion was the interpreter. Let's cut the cost of function calls by 90%, and PHP would be back in the game of performant languages.
Nice, I did not know. Really

Where is the source code?
Well, an objective, educated person would link this reaction to the action that prompt it.
Just like always it's never the idea that worth a lot, it's always the execution, how you market it, effort put into it, etc. And I guess luck also plays a big role at times!

This reminds me about the stories how the Pinterest founder went around a campus opening the site on random pc's, how Reddit started out by submitting posts/comments themselves or even how Airbnb developers went out themselves to photograph their users places with their own camera's.
Ah, right, but that doesn't mean the language is immutable to the degree that it would make for a steep learning curve. Mutating cons cells is arguably an obscure feature; you are free to mutate variables, vectors, structs, tables, and so on (even if you might have to specify that you want mutability).
> They mean permanently making earth a significantly less pleasant place to live for a significant portion of its population.

In the context of this article such people would be termed either "wannabes" or "lacking in vision".
How far from Philly?
Something rubs me wrong about "Please don't call more than once a week. We don't talk to candidates not selected for further interviews. Where is my thank-you letter?"
Nice rant, but doesn't really address the validity of using DSLRs for video...
What if the user uses noscript, or otherwise disable Javascript? Preventing cautious people from seeing the eye candy doesn't sound like a good idea.
I don't care about any of these things when I interview people. I know what position I am in -- sheer desperation. I know what position the candidate is in -- tons of other opportunities if they don't like mine. I'm not going to disqualify someone who is too casual or who arrives too early or who doesn't send a thank-you note or who doesn't have a cover letter.

All I care about are programming ability and whether or not the person is going to be easy to work with.
Sorry, kind of off topic but IF I am to trust wikipedia, wouldn't this not be called a zero day. It would be called a 9 month?

"The term derives from the age of the exploit. When a developer becomes aware of a security hole, there is a race to close it before attackers discover it or the vulnerability becomes public. A "zero day" attack occurs on or before the first or "zeroth" day of developer awareness, meaning the developer has not had any opportunity to distribute a security fix to users of the software."

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack
Sorry to self-relpy, but I re-read your post and found your answer: "how do I program so I don't have pay others." I think that's a terrible reason to get into coding, and counterproductive.

I don't make my own clothes to save money, or build my own car to save money, or even change my own oil to save money. I seriously doubt you can save money by doing your own coding if you have no aptitude for it.
Bloomberg has successfully predicted 17 of the last 3 recessions.
Support for Trump was understandable in 2016 when it was unclear how he would actually behave in the Presidency. Most Republicans I know saw it as a faustian bargian: have a Republican wacko in the White House or a Democrat. But I really don't see this persisting in 2020. I would not be surprised if Republicans employ ranked choice voting for their primary, or increase the number of superdelegates or otherwise take steps to avoid one primary candidate succeeding through appealing to a minority of Republican primary voters. We're already seeing Republicans like Romney distinguishing himself through opposition to Trump.

Ultimately who knows - Trump might actually live up to his promise to run in 2024. But I am dubious that Trumpism will be anything but an aberration in the party. He managed to lose as an incumbent. That's a substantial failure, and one I think Republicans will remember.
> Israel and China aren't invading foreign nations

err Tibet ? hmm Palestine ?
Loving it, the stuff(Word/Excel) is ultra-fast, and aside from AMD, doesnt seem to be using any bloated js framework. Looks more like it's optimized to the max, with raw DOM manipulations.

A big change from clunky Angularjs apps...
Another way that Americans are quite misinformed about who has money is that the media portrays Hollywood stars as the most wealthy people in the world. A relatively minor point, but it does serve to cover up the people who truly have a lot more wealth and power than someone who makes a 'mere' $25m per movie.