skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372465
P2P vs Cloud
What's the future?
I have always been a doubter of lisp likes and even I think this article makes no sense. If you are going to lump CL, Scheme, Clojure, etc together, then the list of "C" like languages is much much longer than the three they have in the article.
I once rented an apartment that had nothing but those loose falling out sockets. The first thing I did was call maintenance to have them come replace all of them. Thankfully they didn't give me any hassle about it.

*I'm sorry if I am using the wrong terminology.
From the perspective of someone who sees the options of "fuck your own population over and kill all healthcare, welfare, etc" or "force companies to pay their taxes, and maybe lose some features like Germany has almost no Google services available", I’m pretty happy with the choice of free healthcare, college, etc vs. having access to Google Wallet
It's already pretty harmonized in continental Europe. And some of the differences are handled by the plugs/sockets themselves (eg. Type F plugs with both ground contacts on the sides and a hole for Type E sockets).
Based on what OP said, it sounds more like he didn't hear/see them having a conversation, that observation came after the fact.
It can run FreeRTOS, the Espressif SDK has an example and there's even a nice open source project around it too: https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos
To any EMC employees reading this: Dell is probably going to pay out your vacation balance as cash in a lump sum prior to the merge. Around that time your EMC title will be mapped to something at Dell. There's a pay range associated with the new title that probably won't match your current title.

If you're planning on sticking around (and your manager likes you), see if you can work with them to tweak your title before the deal goes through.
there are a couple of javascript environments running on it, as well as lua, so it has managed to turn into something that can easily be IoT ready.
I find it interesting that the page they put up if you have an AdBlocker doesn't has a way to send the author a tip or something. Seems like a great way to experiment with other business models.
The nigger brain cannot understand a random number.
The letter is in "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track", a book of letters edited by Feynman's daughter, Michelle, and with the co-operation of his son, Carl.
For abusing a position of privilege and overwhelming power (he could end people's careers with a phone call!) in order to sexually harass women? Immediate termination seems like the obvious response.
don't think of "lisp" as a language, think of it as another branch in the evolutionary tree of programming languages. the "lisp is great" people are not saying that any given lisp-based language is the be-all and end-all of programming languages, they are saying that the lisp branch is the best branch to explore.
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"jacked voltages up to 240, because, you know, MORE POWER."

and

"By the time people started to realize that 240v power might not be such a bad idea..."

Well, the folks at Gizmodo don't know the difference between Voltage and Power.
as someone who used the IEC standard in brazil: it is complete rubish.

you end up with almost 7 variations of the damn thing. it is the only country where you need adapters in the same house!

also, it got 'adopted' without any consideration for the people. suddenly, the standard changed. everyone was pissed, but nobody wanted to get fines in new buildings.

and more ironically, the OLD standard, was compatible with europe and USA and japan! it was the perfect standard for IEC to adopt, not the other way around.
Thats why you get some good finance people, to use the system against itself.

Aslong as it is legal great, mabye the UK should fix some tax laws if that is the case, if it is not legal fine them..
Since the passage of the 17th amendment, Senators don't represent states, they represent people. And some of those people have vastly disproportionate representation by Senators.
Part of the perfection is that it can relatively easily be reimplemented and varied. Clojure uses this to leverage the JVM and adds support for concurrency etc. When people say Lisp is perfection they don't mean that one particular Lisp is perfection, but the idea of Lisp is perfection - or damn close to it.
> You probably already know this, but if your daughter shows any symptoms of malaria, make sure you tell the examining physician that she's just returned from an area that is known to have malaria. It's often one of the first things doctors test for here in Zambia, but if you live in an area without endemic malaria, they might not test for it at all.

Also, for the blood test, make sure she actually has a fever when the blood is drawn.

Malaria (in the initial stages) may have a fever that comes and goes. The test has much higher false negative rates if the blood sample is drawn when the patient does not have a fever.

Doctors in areas where malaria is endemic generally know this, but doctors elsewhere may not. If she has any signs of a fever for the next ~2 months, it's best to get a blood sample drawn right away. Malaria is much more treatable when detected early.
I'm getting hung-up on the word "need".
> just minimize your code prior to production

In frontend JS code sure, but minifying backend node.js code is certainly not "best practice".
> So why are we trying to differentiate lisps, given that they're excellent?

I think the best way to look at this question is to think about who "we" is.

Are the sum total of programmers using lisp coordinating to make a final decision on how many lisps there should be? Certainly not. I don't know all the people using lisp, and I never will. So it doesn't make sense that they're trying to do anything. This community isn't defined in such a way that it's meaningful to talk about directed effort.

There are plenty of reasons to make different lisps without implicitly disparaging the functionality of existing lisps. Perhaps you want to learn about how lisps work by implementing your own. None of the existing languages would help you there. Perhaps you simply have a sense of curiosity about a language feature, and want to implement it somewhere. A less mature lisp might help, if the codebase is smaller and easier to reason about. Perhaps you need to use the JVM for business reasons. Perhaps the JVM is too much for the hardware you're running on, and need a C variant. Perhaps there's one with a particularly useful FFI to another language.
That's just scary...
There is a difference between language and execution. I can put together a clojure server and have it deployed virtually anywhere in about 10 minutes. I have never tried to deploy a CL app but I imagine it must be a little more complicated than making an Uberjar. The semantics of Lisp are beautiful. Why do we need to force them into a single language when it's best strength is portable symbolic logic?
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Don't underestimate how much effort and devotion to the lifestyle it takes. Most of us just want a "turnkey" lifestyle, buying whatever on a whim and expecting it to just work (plug-in gadgets, packaged foods), with even our "staples" coming in such perfect condition (box of nails from Home Depot, beautiful fruits at Whole Foods, etc.). To the contrary, off-the-grid requires devotion to the act of surviving from basics, and integrating technology therein takes additional effort/patience/tolerance. It can certainly be internalized to the point of being "normal" and "comfortable", but still requires that focus - not sleeping in, driving to work, then grabbing a frozen pizza on the way home 'cuz you didn't have time to maintain the garden.

I rant on this because of a taste this weekend, trying with mixed-to-poor results to get my BioLite Camp Stove (otherwise highly recommended) burning a good fire suitable for charging electronics via its built-in thermocouple generator (using the compact solar panels was pointless given cloud cover), and even now a separate solar self-charging battery is sitting on top of my car recouping from the draining usage on the trip (oops, left something on).

I grew up in a semi-self-sufficient family, growing food and heating with wood et al. Seemed easyish then, but in retrospect my folks put a LOT of work into making it work smoothly. Going completely off-grid and still staying connected does seem a desirable state (a la "first world amusement" and "TEOTWAKI prepared"), but yikes it's a lot of work - moreso if your immediate companions aren't wholly devoted as well.
The FCC must not lock down device firmware
These are the strongest argument against its core service management logic; those that explain why it is not better than Upstart (or daemontools or s6+s6-rc …)

And systemd causes problems not only by this, but also by its bundling of similarly mediocre or worse other components.
As a white male who was at one time considering a double-major in Computer Science and English (it was a dumb idea for me for several reasons) and who therefore attended both English and Computer Science classes, I think the other issue that was mentioned in the article is more immediate.

Which is that just the sheer numbers of male students or female students in particular subjects is overwhelming. For example, in my American Lit class, there were literally three male students including me. The funny thing in that class was that at least half of the subject matter was basically about how the white male was evil.

But I definitely didn't fit in there, even without the subject matter. And its not that the girls treated me differently, they didn't -- but I knew I was different. Because I was surrounded by girls.

So I think that just the fact of the momentum of having lopsided student counts of males versus females has a huge effect. People do need to fit in and being with people who are really just like them is a big part of that. I think the stereotypes do have a big impact too, but its a double-whammy -- even when girls might not really be influenced by the stereotype, the reality of being the only female or one of a small group of females surrounded by young men in their classes will make them question their place.

So I think the social dynamics have more to do with it than people realize and I think this is a good article.
The only way out is to have a large cash cushion, investments, and passive income. Anyone having to depend a recurring paycheck in a first world country for food and shelter in the future is going to be worse off in the future.

Why? Because the standard of living will be going down in the first world countries and will meet the third world countries in the middle as their standard of living improves.
I think the oddity here is that the function length takes the comments into account.
Well, there's the UK.

And Denmark. A few years ago I was in Copenhagen and realized I had forgotten my mac charger somewhere. Went to some mac store and bought a charger that surprisingly had a monstrosity attached to it that resembled this:

http://www.internationalconfig.com/prod_shot/78140-BLK.jpg
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He may be referring to Google's internal tracking, which is likely far more personal than GA.
Not with running drinking water, 100Mbps networking, multi-GHz processing, instant temperature adjustment, and so many calories society's biggest problem is obesity. Most of "our poorest" are still in the world's 80th percentile of income/wealth.
It's not a binary, either/or choice between "Lisp is perfect" and "we need a new variant of Lisp". Here's a map of possible attitudes toward Lisp. Take your pick.

On the Lisp-affinity axis,

1. Lisp is almost perfect as-is, we don't need new variants which will only adulterate the purity and greatness of Lisp as it already exists.

2. Lisp is great, and my favorite variant (e.g. Scheme) is the greatest variant because it is the purest available representation of the Lisp concept.

3. Lisp is mostly great, it just needs features x, y, z... which are provided by my favorite variant (e.g. Clojure).

4. Lisp is great, but really only for particular things, and its variants might be great for slightly different things.

5. Lisp isn't so great at all, and making new variants is just putting lipstick on a pig. Use a functional language other than Lisp (e.g. Haskell).

6. Functional programming as a whole sucks. Use a mixed-paradigm or imperative language (Java, C#, Perl, etc.)

7. High-level programming sucks. Use something without mandatory garbage collection (C++, Rust, C, Assembly).

On the intolerance-to-tolerance axis,

1. Lisp is almost perfect as-is, we don't need new variants which will only adulterate the purity and greatness of Lisp as it already exists.

2. Lisp is great as-is, so we don't really need new variants, but since they are also Lisp, they are also great.

3. Lisp is great, but some other languages are also great.

n. It doesn't matter what language you use, all language differences are only cosmetic.
We've been running a series of experiments to try to mitigate the randomness of what achieves liftoff from /newest. We started working on this because many users complained that good stories were getting ignored, and we looked closely and found that this was true. Below are links to a few comments I've posted about this over the last year, if anyone's interested. The next experiment will probably be to add a profile setting that people can turn on to let the
software repost their story at a good time, rather than having to get an email invitation—although to judge from the feedback we've been getting, people seem to like the emails.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140
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Are most people able to just "picture a room" as required by this technique? I've never been good at that. Whenever I try to picture a location, I just see objects and landmarks with no real sense of place, kind of just floating in an impressionistic aether.
There are also middle grounds you can take. I, and other people in my area, live on homesteads, doing our organic / permaculture farming thing, growing our own food, expanding our solar arrays... while also having a good internet connection and a grid-tie so we can do our coding day jobs for part of the day, pay our bills, then shut down and spend the rest of our time in a more disconnected state. I wish I could disconnect more, but I'm not quite there yet.

What is important is to recognize that choices exist. You do not need to work long hours on the office campus of a tech company who feeds you 2 meals a day and expects your life to be dedicated to your "work". You also do not need to live in a VW bus with a laptop on a solar panel. There is a spectrum of choices, with different people finding their ideal life at different points.

As in many things in life, making a conscious choice to follow your own path is best.
Furhtermore, the unit is "precinct", not "voter", so the starting input is already subject to gerrymandering.

And the chart ignores the reality that districting serves an important purpose: to give minorities (however defined) a non-zero voice in the representative body.
For the record, you can prevent the university carrying off half of the grant by stating as an official policy that you only pay X% overhead, where X is some much more reasonable number like 15.

Many private companies do this, and as long as it's something that's stated clearly and publicly, grants offices often go along.
More likely is that the studies were done in different regions of the country which have different parasite strains.
Connect your CRM with 3rd party apps – no syncing
In what way? Either there is a need for variants, or there is no need for variants but it is perfectly okay to make them, or there is no need and it's not okay to make them.
Seconded. http://chicago.citycode.io/ was the best conf I've been to and I hope there's plenty more.
Dell agrees to acquire EMC for US$67B
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Better yet if these apps that install root certificates on the phone would get caught in the app store approval process before making it to users devices
Senators represent the people of their state.
Do you have a tally of the ones that failed?

Fifth generation computing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

Strategic Defense Initiative - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

Expeditionary Combat Support System - http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/aerospace/military/us-ai...

The Field Data Collection Automation for the US census - http://calleam.com/wp-content/uploads/US_Census_FDCA_Case_St... (the failure added $3 billion to the cost of the census).

How do you score the Space Shuttle? It didn't come close to meeting its design goals, but throw enough money at something (as we did with SDI) does result in something.
"Corrupts" in the sense of "Makes it worse than it might otherwise be".

And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if funding insecurity effects outcomes. Keeping your research on a clearly fundable path, not rocking the boat, etc.
The Vision Intel, AMD and Nvidia Are Chasing: Heterogeneous Computing
I'm sure that the doubts in 1990 were strongly affected by the HGP as carried out under the DOE days.

I'm sure the doubts in 1998 were based on different factors.

Internally, the HGP in 1998 considered themselves on track. Quoting from http://www.genome.gov/10001475 :

> The Human Genome Project has successfully completed all the major goals in its current 5-year plan, covering the period 1993-1998. A new plan, for 1998-2003, is presented, in which human DNA sequencing will be the major emphasis. An ambitious schedule has been set to complete the full sequence by the end of 2003, two years ahead of previous projections. In the course of completing the sequence, a "working draft" of the human sequence will be produced by the end of 2001.
This 1.4 liters per second (or 1300 gallons per hour, or 11.8 million gallons per year) works out to 36 acre feet per year. California alfalfa uses 4 million to 5.5 million acre feet per year on about a million acres, so that's about six to nine acres of alfalfa.

That means that every single alfalfa farmer with more than nine acres planted is a bigger water hog than this constantly running garden hose or whatever it is.

That alfalfa doesn't even feed people. It feeds cows. How much beef do you need to eat to occupy nine acres? Probably several cows per year.
This is more nomenclature than anything. We have a broad definition of what a lisp is, but a fairly narrow definition of what a C variant is. I'd argue that C++ and Java have more in common with each other than, say, Shen and Emacs Lisp.
Presidential election cheat (spread)sheet
The Neglected Phenomenon of Negative Feedback Control (2001) [pdf]
PCKWCK: A real-time serial novel
I'd honestly recommend that people just pick up a copy of and devote some time getting through Andrew S. Tanenbaum and David J. Wetherall's Computer Networks.
It depends on what is meant by "the full whack of tax".

If your tax bracket is 30%, nobody expects you to pay 30% of your income in taxes. No, that's the top marginal rate, and you have deductions, and so on. This could charitably be put in the same realm -- they're getting all of their loopholes that they're dubiously entitled to.

It's sort of like if a speeding ticket costs $200. But you know you can get away with speeding most of the time. If suddenly we had a perfectly-enforced system where you paid $200 every time you exceeded the speed limit, it wouldn't seem 'fair' even though it is, strictly speaking, 'fair'.

However, to cost the average person the same amount, the amount per offense should really go down if enforcement is perfect.

In the same way, the US corporate tax rate is insanely high, but the actual amount major corporations pay is insanely low.
> can you really?

Yes. Yes, you can.

Anybody who claims that there are exactly two monetization methods in existence hasn't done a whit of research, or even paid attention to the industry. Being anti-adblocking on that basis is at best lazy and at worst disingenuous. After all, plenty of the alternatives pay better than ads without annoying your core audience so much.
Google is ad supported. And the ultimate unicorn.
After living in North America for 9 years, it still confuses the heck out of the me that I can plug everything in either way around. Sometimes it will spark one way and not the other, and it just makes me feel uncomfortable when I do that.
Thank God for patents, without them this invention clearly wouldn't have had the human willpower to do it at all.

But with patents, yay! A few aggressive apes got rich and everyone else got to play with the invention. Capitalism ROCKS.
I forget the source but I remember a story about an ipod prototype being shown to Steve Jobs, where they deliberately showed him a flawed early model that he could evaluate and reject, allowing him to realize what should be fixed. Then when they showed him their improved solution he would be better able to accept it, feeling that he was a part of the thinking that improved the design.

Steve Job's name was on a number of patents - I expect however that a significant amount of those reflect his involvement though this sort of "handling", where it was important to draw him into a consensus by letting him think through a design problem that was probably already solved.
Compatible Time-Sharing System: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Overview (2011) [pdf]
Clojure isn't a minor variation on earlier Lisps, it's something that uses s-expressions with a significantly different set of default data structures, core library functions, and platforms.

This is like asking why we needed C when we already had ALGOL.
Beyond strategic reasons mentioned elsewhere, the main ones are (a) local candidate of desired party is unqualified/unpopular/etc and (b) local candidate of less desired party is more qualified/more popular/etc. (Seeing as "popularity" is, for better or worse, a pretty important quality in a political candidate; this includes "I went to the same high school as candidate X, they seem like a good person.")

This happens easily in more-than-two party systems like Canada or the U.K. Since each party overlaps with another a bit on certain issues, and many voters only seem to feel strongly about a few issues, those voters are ideologically okay with more than one party. Even if they have a "favourite" party, they will consider the candidates of those other parties as well.
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Nobody bases their "something better" on something they don't think is already great.
Not Resume, your story sells
How to get better at software development
> since they are more or less tailored to a patient's DNA

This is still pie-in-the-sky, and we don't know if that dream is much more achievable than the flying car.

Using an argument by analogy, we have sequenced a lot of disease genomes, but it's not easy to turn that information into new drugs.
What's wrong with amusement? / Why does everything have to be a big deal?
'Steve Jobs' is a new kind of biopic – and not entirely true
I still use it.
Pretty much like our current financial system then. You can send ages moving your money from one investment to another. The rich already pay professionals for that and genrally come out on top. Just sticking your money in a normal account and it effectively diminishes over the years.
And if antibiotics are so great, why do we keep needing more of them?
The prongs may be insulated, but lots of people wind up putting plugs on wires themselves, so there are a lot of grotty plugs out there with 240v Sparks in them.