skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, yeah, maybe. I guess what I meant is this, say you have some OO/Scala-like code like this:

mydata.doA(blah).doB().doC(blah2).etc()

You can read it left-to-right: I've got some data, I do something to it, I then do something else to that result, etc. Maybe it's just that I've been using Java, and the like, for years but this feels simpler to me than s-expressions. At least initially.

With s-expressions I get something like (ignoring threading macros):

(etc (doC blah2 (doB (doA blah mydata))))

So when reading, from a data perspective, you kind of read outwards from the inner s-expression (which seems right-to-left to me). Or keep a kind of mental stack, as you read inwards (left-to-right). No?
It's probably because it was too late for a true sequel to arrive. When the market was ready to receive another Angry Birds they threw 2 or 3 other games that where exactly like the first one. If the second was Angry Birds 2, it would be better received.
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There already was a BOUND instruction. Nobody ever seems to remember this when they propose adding such an instruction.
Hmm, works for me
Probably not. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thanks-obama
Not sure if you were looking for someone to tell you why they like him - if not, I apologize for misunderstanding.

His platform - though overly ambitious - contains a bullet list of the exact things I believe are in desperate need of fixing in the nation. For the sake of brevity I'll stick with only 3:

> Rebuild Infrastructure

> Reverse Climate Change

> Health Care as a Right for All

I honestly don't understand how every candidate isn't running with at least the first of that list on their platform. Our infrastructure is barely viable at this point and has been limiting our growth since the start of the software revolution. This is a bigger problem on more local levels but those get their initiatives from the fed and thus it's a place to start.

Reversing climate change (or at least reducing the effect of it) is another I can't believe that every candidate isn't running with. The longer we wait to address the problem with meaningful change the worse of a future we guarantee. The worst outcome of heading down this path is that we were wrong about some specific technology delivering us from the perils at hand - but then (like a broken unit test) we know that won't work and can incorporate that knowledge into further endeavors.

Then there's healthcare. The ACA was an excellent stepping stone - but it has to be that. Something to get us through so we can pull ourselves to the next step. The fact that so many Americans are soon to be required to have another insurance fee is ridiculous. This is the exact type of service that is the reason we pay taxes. I understand that some people view taxes as some illegal manifestation of government power - I just disagree with that entire sentiment. The proper role of taxes seems to be to cover the costs of burdens that we all collectively share. Every person in this nation needs healthcare to some degree. The health insurance market has already shown us that we can create a way to account for varying costs among individuals. That pattern falls into the existing pattern of our tax code pretty easily. Remove the middle man profiting off of our shared burden, replace it with the state, and reduce our burden slightly.

So there's a nutshell of why I like Sanders. His platform appeals to me. It's not some notion of 'starving people and millionaires' - it's that he wants to change the country in a way that I think is 'better'. Like Obama - if he gets only a small amount of his ambition accomplished he will still have created a better place.
You don't know that. He could be running a crawler that builds a service that ends up sending you very valuable traffic... Or you could be right... Not really enough info though.
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It isn't all luck, but they spend a HUGE amount of money to keep the ad ball rolling.

And I may be being unfair not having played their games, but they follow the same mechanic, just being different themed, right?

It is too early to be sure, but I'd bet they're still riding their particular wave.
It seems more likely that it came from not knowing his name. But it's fixed now, so whatevs.
Is there a toilet that isn't water based? Or are you talking about using tree/hole/... as toilet?
People who are aware of Ubuntu's Unity will also know that it obviously has long existed on Linux, so there is no confusion. Simple heuristics made abundantly clear more than any additional title clarification could.

There are a lot of products in tech, and a huge number of name collisions. Context (such as the fact that the linked domain is unity3d) saves us all from having to add caveats and clarifications to every mention. Just as I can talk about Microsoft Windows without noting that I'm not talking about panes of glass.
German used to be more like that buta spelling reform in 1996 fixed many of these issues. All my spelling grades got significantly better (less terrible) once that happened.
I'm less afraid of unreplaced-failed-government-programs, and more afraid of unreplaced-successful-privacy-invading-companies, especially when they have government approval.
What you're saying is a bit disingenuous. I never said anything about the articles of confederation and I was referring to the constitution as we know it. No where do I say the founding fathers wanted the federal government to have no power, just that they wanted the federal government to have limited power, and this is pretty undeniable. If they wanted all power concentrated at a federal level they would not have allowed the states to exist.
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The problem with the U.S. and why universal health care potentially wouldn't work is in terms of scale. The U.S. has over 300M people living in it, over 8x as much as the most populous European country. We also have a history of hating and evading taxes at all costs (Boston Tea Party).

I'm not saying it can't work but the economics gets truly tricky when you're dealing with a country that big.
>It's not 'value'. If you have $3k annual income for the next 50 years and I offer you $100k for it, it's not value, it's total bs.

Did you mean 3k monthly? Because if you meant annual, I'd take your offer.
I wish this could be used in a broader context without involving Android.
This is very important. I would also argue that Rovio never really achieved the "Freemium ideal" in the way that top grossing games: Clash of Clans, Game of War, and Candy Crush has.

Now are other examples in the reverse, where the game is far too expensive to attract a large userbase.

But Rovio hasn't been able to "toe the line" between an attractive "free-to-wait" game that is fun enough to draw in massive amounts of paying users - like other developers have - _despite_ having a brand marketable enough to make a movie off of.
Thanks for nothing, Normandy!
Apparently 8 million people use Uber.

Being 1 of ~8 million isn't significantly better than being 1 of ~150 million, in terms of accountability.

But it's a faulty argument, anyway. It's not a single citizen that holds a government accountable, it's the masses, and the media, etc.
Which you typically charge with your bank-card... And if it breaks and you still have money on it?

You need to fill out a form for reimbursement which asks EVERYTHING, including your gender!
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For specific examples, here's MIT's policy, from http://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=176367&p=1159444#13351783 :

> Who holds ownership of the copyright to my thesis?

> In most cases the Institute will hold ownership of the copyright to a thesis. In general, students may retain ownership of thesis copyrights when the only form of support is from (1) teaching assistantships (the duties of which do not include research activities) and (2) NSF and NIH traineeships and fellowships (although the trainee or fellow may be required to grant certain publishing rights to NSF or NIH). See the current Specifications for Thesis Preparation for more details.

> Students may request a waiver of the Institute’s copyrights by written application to the Institute’s Technology Licensing Office (NE25-230).

Here's information about the copyright for a Harvard PhD, from https://www.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/grads/forms/um... :

> You may choose either open access or traditional publishing. If you choose Open Access Publishing, the published version of your dissertation or thesis will always be available for free download to anyone who has access to the Internet. The Traditional Publishing option works on a standard copy-sales and royalty-payments model. We sell copies of your work (in any format) and pay royalties as described in the Publishing Agreement. Either option gets your graduate research out where other scholars can find and use it through the ProQuest® Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) database, subscribed to by more than 3000 libraries worldwide.

Or to pick a non-Boston-area school, here are open access PhD these from Florida State - http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/etd/ .

Stallman has an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow. Pulling up the first PhD thesis from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/cgi/latest I see "Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author." The same is true from the couple of other theses I looked at.

He also has an honorary degree from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology. I pulled up three PhD thesis from http://www.kth.se/en/ict/forskning/ickretsar/publikationer/r... . Two of them had a copyright statement by the PhD candidate, one had no explicit statement.

So it's not the case that thesis copyright transfer is a major issue preventing Stallman from getting a PhD.
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A social democrat leading a mixed market society is a pretty frequent state of affairs.
The right move for the wrong reasons.
My apologies to French and German Speakers :-)
I'm wondering how this compares to countries who actually has his "utopia" implemented, to a certain degree at least. I mean, in Denmark, the government pays you $1000 a month to study college/university.

In the implementation stage they must've had similar problems to the ones you're describing. Is it a hockey-stick graph and are these obstacles just necessary for future prosperity?
I can't find the quote anymore but I remember their CEO, while the company was still very new, saying that they'll never need to move away from Angry Birds and people won't get tired of it because they'll keep releasing new Angry Birds stuff. Or something to that effect.

So I can't say I'm surprised. In fact I would have thought this would have happened a long time ago. They should look into creating some new IP. In my opinion anyway. That way they could become a gaming company instead of an Angry Birds company.
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We're doing lasts test in order to start using it in biggest wireless community network in the world: guifi.net ;)
Well, just to throw in this consideration, how much is Uber going to cost the MTA?
Clearly only rich people should get patents!
/sarcasm
When you make 260 employees redundant, I'd say it's ok for people to make assumptions about your brand.
The I Before E Except After C "rule" is another great example.

Obligatory QI citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqlZXiIZqA
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Private companies may be held more accountable, but they are done so by a much smaller group of people. I think its also fairly evident that when a private company harms the general public, the only thing keeping them accountable is the government.
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Anecdotal, but my first job's first project was to take ownership of a codebase my team had just been given from another part of the company which nobody on the team really knew. Ensuring the documentation was up to date (it wasn't) and the other developers on the team were able to get, build, and deploy the codebase to their own VMs was literally the first thing I did--and it gave me a reasonably good basic understanding of the software to allow me to move forward with owning/working on it in the future.

To be honest, it was a kind of frustrating onboarding experience, but it definitely met the team's goals with a minimum of disruption to people who were shipping features.
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What about its customers? Again, in principle.
Yes, I know what meme the means. They are making fun of people who use the meme as a way of defecting criticism from the President, especially in light their sudden reversal from blaming the President for everything from letting the 9/11 attacks to happen to a conspiracy to keep gas prices high to letting a hurricane make landfall in New Orleans.
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Not an accountant so i can't really have an opinion either way, and i really don't know squat about German tax laws, if they do a reverse VAT charge than it might be fine, but making claims that you don't charge VAT, especially online is a bit risky ;)

You can usually contact the tax authorities in countries you do business and ask for their procedures, HMRC at least is really good at helping people out regardless of where they live (UK, EU/EEA, rest of the world) since they see them selves as a "business enabler" and have their services aligned to achieve just that.
"better"
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Arbitrary titles granted to someone that allows them to control a piece of the Earth in perpetuity? That doesn't strike you as a recipe for disaster and inequality?

For a full answer, try: "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George.
The true prior art is the door bolt. Slide to unlock. Bringing the same method and procedure to a phone or car shouldn't warrant patent protection.
Personally, I'd rather they spend time making webgl production ready to ensure Chrome player support.
Is this a chance for Score Voting or Approval Voting [1]?

Edit: It looks like they are going with instant-runoff, which is more complicated and has higher levels of regret. Does anyone know why they have selected this versus the easier Score Voting option?

[1] http://www.electology.org/#!approval-voting/cc04
Take ideology off the hook for a moment, and if you are a supporter of lots of government support for mass transit, ask yourself, do you really want government agencies to engage in extremely, extremely speculative development [1] of millions of dollar's worth of software, radical new ways of organizing mass transit, and experimenting with a brand new way of providing services that have never been seriously tried before, and by all rational measures, at the outset of the project the most likely outcome can only rationally be considered failure?

Honestly, if this wasn't an ideologically-loaded "private industry vs. government" issue and we were all wearing our rational thought hats instead of our politics hats, we would vigorously condemn any mass transit authority that prioritized such a risky venture at the risk of dropping actual services to poor people! That's not their job.

This isn't a private vs. public story. Let the private industry prove out the model at their own risk and their own expense. Let them recoup the expense and pocket some profit for the risk at the expense of those who can afford the service. (The poor are not actually hurt by not having access to Uber, anymore than they were hurt by not having access to it 10 years ago.) Let the government come in behind and work on providing services based on the risks taken and the lessons learned. Perhaps even by contracting out to Uber, or perhaps more likely, a yet-to-be-founded mass-transit-focused competitor, when the model has been derisked enough that the poor aren't at high risk of being boned by the vagueries and vissitudes of Silicon Valley unicorns.

This would hold true even if all the city governments were models of efficiency, and all had highly trained and skillful staffs of programmers on staff who could easily write all this code. But come now, even you promoters of government, let's all be honest with each other, this is not the case. And, again, that's not least because it would be unacceptable for a mass transit authority to hire all that talent when it should be using money to provide service.

Government can't be good at everything, because there are something things that it can only be good at at the expense of other things it is supposed to be doing instead. Wildly risky experimentation certainly sounds like a good candidate for that category to me.

[1]: By contrast, to be clear, I am fully behind incremental advancement, exploration, and development by governments. It routinely happens and it should. But in general, it is not their job to do moon shots with social programs. (Note the "moon shot" and "the bomb" and all the other really experimental stuff that you might want to name are not social programs. A line of military research coming up dry does not directly harm the poor. (Especially under progressive taxation where "the poor" pay either very little or negative taxes in the US, so you can't even really complain about their tax load.))
You don't. See my long comment on the actual post. I've tried and I've tried and I've finally given up. The only thing I haven't really tried is "plan stuff so thoroughly in advance that you'll never have to refactor". Though this seems completely antithetical to Clojure's raison d' anyway, that I doubt I'll ever get there.

I think it was on google groups somewhere but I can't find it offhand, but one of the early big contributors of prominent clojure libraries has since completely quit clojure specifically for that reason.
I'm no fan of Bernie Sanders in general, but I have to admit, that was pretty nifty. Good jooooeerrrrb, Sanders Team!
Could you unfold that statement?
A corporation is not accountable to its customers save through the government (and its courts). And zdw's scenario makes them eavesdrop on non-customers anyway.
Absolutely cash out. Internet fame and popularity is fleeting. Building up 800 employees because of one hit is a huge gamble. You could get another hit... but better odds are that you are just throwing money down the drain. Be happy for what you have, monetize the crap out of it, sell it at the peak if possible, and let it go.
Customers only matter in traditional scenarios. In Uber's case, they're only accountable to their VCs and other funds pouring money into their (legally questionable) operations.
Seattle is a fantastic counterpoint. Of all the cities I've seen, Seattle has managed to have excellent service and ridership using a primarily bus oriented public transit system. It's a great example of how the stigma of buses is one of the largest obstacles public transit in the US needs to overcome.
The major downside I know is that in case your private key is compromised and you want to revoke the certificate, you have to pay $24.90.

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Trump has no extreme positions that I've heard. Totally mainstream populist.

People are downvoting me, but if you don't realize that any policy comments Trump has put forth poll great you are just out of touch. You would be by definition "extreme."
I think you're right in that it's easier for me to put the tax and administration burden on my clients.
It's also very bad for employees when there are not many other companies around. It works for the movie industry because they have hubs (ie. Hollywood) where you have loads of studios so you can jump between productions without having to move. It's not the same in the games industry.
Valid points, interested to hear what you make of the perspective that Sanders commands decent support from blue collar conservatives in VT?

His message/views appear to speak to a broader base than simply Team Blue fans.
This is sad; I was really looking forward to this software.
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> Lots of boy bands are popular, but very few are relevant.

Relevant to what? Relevant to their fans? Obviously. Relevant to the economy? Probably, since popular boy bands would have a great deal of influence over a lot of spenders. Relevant to culture? Definitely. A popular anything impacts culture.

Popularity pretty much implies some sort of relevance.
You forgot about the most powerful economic actor, the consumer.
I don't even have to read the article to know this is going to get down-voted into obscurity. It's like mom always said if you don't have something nice to say about this week's popular javascript framework, don't say anything at all (or else...)

PS This week's framework is actually Falcor
(< x y) is the main one I have trouble with. The alligator is eating them both!
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Let's Encrypt will offer DV certs for free. Right now, they are aiming for November.

https://letsencrypt.org/
What does size have to do with it? If anything, size should be beneficial because of economies of scale.
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"the punditry favored Giuliani; he was a frontrunner, but not at all considered a shoo-in the way Hillary is."

That is all I was claiming. Hillary is an unusual case; I've not seen this level of "shoo-in" before.

Also, just to be clear, I'm not making grandiose claims that I know something about the race, nor am I claiming that this is somehow identical to previous situations [1]... it's more that I know that something isn't true: The punditariat is wildly overconfident, and their current confidence in their beliefs is wrong. Even if they are ultimately correct, they're still overconfident right now. The echo chamber does that.

[1]: It never really is, and there's a certain amount of anti-inductiveness to similar situations in politics: http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/ If you see a similarity that favors X, in general, so do X's opponents, and they're likely to do something that will, as a side effect, break the similarity somehow.