skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several main pain points :

- companies need to be treated as "unitary" - that is passing profits around internally should not affect the tax paid

- profit is the least definable of all measures. Revenue is something companies don't like to lie about.

- this change will have to come to small and even consumers to be fair (my wife and I are a unitary item ? Can we share tax allowances?)

- even if we decide on treating companies as one black box, choose a better metric to tax on (revenue, dividends) we still do not have a formula for distributing across national borders. Should the US get all Facebooks profits? No. Should Facebook pay UK based on number of UK users it has? Doubtful. So ....

We are not going to see this end well - unitary treatment seems obvious but a international agreement on how to divide tax will need another two world wars to sort out.
I think the question is framed poorly, and on that ground I'd challenge it from two angles:

First, one could argue that there are all sorts of additional C-like languages that weren't listed - Java, C#, Rust, Go, etc.

One could also argue that "Lisp" is a more fundamental category of languages than "C", so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Exhibit A: the author's list of Lisps included both dynamic and static languages, whereas the list of C's included only statically typed ones. It captures the idea of a functional language with a unified representation for both code and data. C-like, on the other hand, seems to specifically mean C and its superset languages (a much smaller family than its descendants) according to the author's usage.
(Disclaimer: Slightly off-topic. Also, it's not my intention to belittle their lifestyle. I hope I don't come across that way.)

Some of the things they need even in this disconnected lifestyle - like the mobile home, laptops, books, solar panels, batteries and even the slippers have to be made by someone doing a 9-5 job somewhere. The idea of civilization to me is to take advantage of these specialists who are really good at doing or manufacturing some of the things I need and in turn I become a specialist in something (probably one thing) which I contribute back to the society - it's a barter. That I don't have to do all the things I need to do to survive, seems efficient and effective. Also, not all of the jobs are going to be able to afford this "luxury".
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Terraform: orchestrate multi-platform cloud deployments
I started using uBlock's default-deny setting 2 weeks ago (it rejects all requests to secondary domains unless the domain is explicitly allowed). It's amazing to see how many websites use AWS or amazon ads these days.

It is really strange to think about how the average consumer views Amazon as an online retailer, but that is really only half the picture. As the end of the article states:

>Maybe someday A.W.S. will be the company that also happens to own an online retailer.
He mentions that his home server and internet gateway is a Sheevaplug with a wireless dongle and dialup modem. Presumably he doesn't have a landline where he lives. Can anyone comment on getting dialup access via a cell phone connection? Is that one way his setup could work?
A friend of mine was given a list of fake definitions for real words as part of a puzzle contest

http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2014/puzzle/eggsam/

and then had to answer a face-to-face oral quiz where she was supplied with a definition and had to give the word, from memory, that corresponded to the definition. (What's worse, these definitions are definitions of other words: for example, "A parliamentary tactic in which a lawmaker speaks for an extended period of time in order to delay a vote" is really FILIBUSTER, but for purposes of the quiz she had to respond with NARWHAL!)

She learned them all in about 15 minutes and then got a nearly perfect score on the first try, which kind of astounded everybody. I think your feat was similarly impressive, though.
The prior point still stands if you compare the number of LISP modifications... basically every program with macros + interpreters + compilers... to the few things you've cited which were often a lot of work and hard to change. GCC particularly.

I agree the C crowd is more unified and that has huge impact. I'd go further to suggest that the legacy effect of UNIX and all the C libraries keep thing compatible. The C crowd is always sort of in maintenance mode for their language to keep everything working. While the LISP crowd rarely keeps anything and is often developing forms of the language. A subset are more practical with something long-term for real world use but most aren't. This difference between C use cases and LISP is worth exploring in answering these questions.
We should do this for egg drops on the moon. One time containers filled with honey.
Thanks, that is my plan too, add as many sensor as I could!
For the moment I have a microphone, a water level and a couple of temperature sensors waiting for a microcontroller.

Could you link a couple of links to resources you found useful? I haven't look at it properly but when I try to search I was a bit confused and not sure on where to start
Impostor Hunting: Why 9 Out of 10 Tech Jobs Are Bullshit
This could be a nice xkcd-style infographic hehe.
I think it makes more sense to say that selling includes an element of teaching.
Like Joey I hate fans in my machines. I am a long term ThinkPad user. My main machine is still a T420s (the s model is a bit lighter than the regular T420) however I would love something like the Yoga 3 Pro but with a ThinkPad design. The Core-M is fine for my local computing needs the only thing lacking from the Yoga 3 Pro is a TrackPoint as I can't stand touchpads.

My ideal machine would be something along the lines of - fanless Intel CPU, 14" 1080p or better IPS display, excellent backlit keyboard with TrackPoint, 12+ hour battery life for 60% screen brightness and wifi, 3+ USB ports, 512+GB fastest local storage possible (so PCIe x4/M.2 or something). I don't care for anything else although I would take an HDMI or DP out and Bluetooth if possible :)
Yeah, it might be harder to convince people that classic memory techniques are important when they carry smartphones. But the classic memory techniques may still work just as well as they ever did!
I'd be happy to get rid of it if it is indeed out-dated as you say, though that was not my impression. Could you give me some references giving information about how core Internet is now being done?
So here's a question: why don't the Swedish just do the common-sense thing, drop the political posturing and either:

A. interview him via Google Hangout / Skype / etc.

or

B. fly somebody to England to interview him at the Ecuadorian embassy?
"Aggressive Israeli sales people"?

Chris Chen, why do you think Israeli sales people are on par with scammers? That sounds more than a little bit out of line. Why do Israelis bother you so much?

Chris, you need to take a good long look in the mirror and decide if this is who you want to be. I'm also surprised that this forum is not down voting comments which don't seem so on topic.
I'm still failing to see how this material would provide strength. In a composite structure like you suggested, the two sheets could still crush the microlattice on the inside.

It doesn't seem stronger than foam during compression, so the fact that it returns to its original shape seem pointless. What am I not seeing?
I think it's more or less "Throw a few billion dollars at the problem; continue doing so for years." (My over-under for the size of the AWS team would be, oh, 2,500 engineers.)
Well no. What would you expect this code to do?

void increment(int x) {
x += 1;
}

void printit() {
int y = 0;
increment(y);
printf("%d\n", y);
}

C doesn't have lists so I had to use an int here, but the Python example does the equivalent of that code printing 1, not 0. (But only for lists. That same Python code with ints does what you expect.)
How AOL exploited the power of Amazon EMR (real use case)
That sounds like an interesting communinity, where do you live?
What happens to VMWare now that Dell bids on EMC?
The stakes are perceived as low because it's not a life-or-death decision and nobody but math students at a single school care about it.
I think you misunderstood. A dialect of lisp is a fairly trivial exercise. We were able to do it in a single lecture back in college. Now that dialect had trivial and essentially useless functionality but allowed us to easily build on and create new languages, but lisp was designed to allow for these dialects to be made and to be made easily.
First point is true. Second point isn't: BCPL was created solely because they couldn't build an improved ALGOL (CDL) on a 1950's computer. Took out every good feature the hunk of junk couldn't compile. C was modified BCPL/B to do that on a PDP-11 w/ UNIX a watered-down MULTICS for same reason.

A comparison would be LISP 1.x vs modern Scheme or Common LISP. And only using LISP 1.x because you had to work with a microcontroller instead of a PC. ;)
It's not just about effort, but time as well. "Turnkey" convenience gives you time to spend on other things. For example, the more time I spend surviving on the basics, the less time I can invest in the charity I volunteer with.
Obama and Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa
Opt-in Transparency
Also, Tubes by Andrew Blum to get a taste of the physical part of the Internet. (http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/006...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia#Cases

The person you heard about might have been

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Price

These cases remind me very strongly of the Borges story "Funes the Memorious" ("Funes el Memorioso").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious

Edit: It was interesting to hear that Price rejected the interpretation of her condition that was given in the Wired story about her (which was how I'd heard about her).
Show HN: Affordable websites for small businesses
It's very hard for me to believe combined therapies can beat evolution.

I can believe that it takes evolution longer to adapt to it.

Of course I don't even know what "combined therapies" is, so I'm probably wrong. What am I missing?
Yup.

> had to spend a lot of money on getting things

When I was at IBM's Watson lab, the PC
on my desk had parts worth a total of
$50,000+.

When I bought my first PC at home, from
Gateway, it cost me $10,000+. Single core,
90 MHz clock.

Later a friend and I considered a startup,
I went shopping, and saw that parts
for a good PC would run ballpark $6,000 --
we didn't do the startup!

Later I wanted a more up to date PC,
and the parts cost about $5000.
So, single core 1.8 GHz processor,
that is 1800 / 90 = 20 times
faster for half as much money.

Now I'm shopping for the first server
for my startup. I've been assuming that
the parts would cost about $2000.
Nope: How about $1000, for
a processor with 8 cores,
at 4.0 GHz, with 32 GB of ECC
main memory, etc.

But I already have a spare
screen and power supply,
now really want to do backup
from one hard disk to another,
both internal, and to a
2 TB external hard disk via
USB so don't need Blu-Ray.

And good 1 TB hard disks go for
about $60 and, thus, make
room enough for internal
disk to disk backup
surprisingly cheap and
easier than working with
Blu-Ray disks.

And main memory prices are
significantly lower: E.g.,
the Kingston, 32 GB of
1600 MHz ECC main memory

KVR16E11K4/32

was $429 but now
is easy enough to find
for $230.99, nearly half price.

So, $700 gets such an 8 core
box.

But, for my first server, really
not sure I need the full 8 cores,
32 GB of main memory right away
so could
settle for 4 cores with a slightly
slower clock and 16 GB of main
memory and three disk drives
1 TB each, for under $400.

So, start with a $400 server
and, if it stays busy sending
Web pages with ads, then
the ad revenue just from
on the way to getting busy
should be much more than
needed for some high end
servers.

And now 1 GbE IP routers are
much cheaper, too!

And for $90 a month
my ISP can give me
a connection with a static
IP address, no ports blocked,
and upload bandwidth
of 35 Mbps. Half fill
that 24 x 7 sending Web pages
with ads, and should be
able to show a profit!

Several US locations
have 1 GbE service!

Prices, they've been a coming down!

It used to be, to bring up a
busy Web
site, needed big bucks to, say, Sun
and maybe a T3 leased line, etc.

Now nearly everything about bringing
up a Web site is much easier and cheaper
than 10-15 years ago.

E.g., my startup is based on
Windows, so I get to use IIS and
ASP.NET for the Web site,
ADO.NET and SQL Server
for the data base,
parts of the rest of .NET
for more, e.g., de/serialization
of instances of classes
for program to program communications
over TCP/IP sockets. Some big
sites use this infrastructure;
it should work well enough for
my startup!

E.g., I
wrote my own Web site session
state server key-value store using
TCP/IP sockets, de/serialization,
and two instances of a .NET
collection class. The .NET collection
class was great fun to use!
Terrific infrastructure.

Much easier, cheaper than 10-15 years ago!
oblig. https://xkcd.com/903/

We already have amplified memory (see also: books, mnemonics). and google amplifies retrieval.

But what is "intelligence", that we might amplify it? For me, limited short-term working memory is an obstacle (EWD's "limited size of skull"). As complexity is added, earlier parts drop out.

There is the "technology" of hierarchical decomposition and the pyschological instinct of chunking, but every problem has irreducible complexity... if this is greater than my working memory, I cannot grasp it.

Artificially enhanced working memory may help here, but I suspect the limit is due not so much short-term memory itself, but it having associations throughout all long-term memory. That is, it's less a cache limit than a bandwidth limit, interconnecting with the entire mind. We aren't Von Neumann architectured.

PS: there's an argument that we might not be able to grasp intelligence itself, if its and its components' irreducible complexity is greater than any person's working memory - even if we formalize a correct model, we mightn't grasp it ourselves. Thus, IA may be essential for AI. Or, AI is essential for AI.
Elderberry syrup: simple home remedy to boost immunity
what a terrible video ! the sound cuts everywhere make the whole thing sound like a political parody where you stitch together words from different meetings...
Seriously, Boeing, you couldn't afford more than a single shot on this. Or actors, or something ?

"It's really exciting to work with things that we make that eventually go into real product that lots of people use". It's sad on so many accounts bu it sounds like a political debate to me. might as well say "It's cool to do stuff with some stuff that could be used to create stuff for people to to stuff with", and it's going to cointain just as much info.
I did that via a Nokia back in 1998. There might be a flipphone or two that could still be used in that method. I don't recall having to use any special software.
Gaining Root on the Google OnHub
Or is it that everyone else is so slow.

My guess is Google/MSFT is doing a lot of putting out fires since their offerings are newer than AWS, and they're not getting as much usage (which makes bugs appear earlier). That's been my understanding as to why Dropbox hasn't changed all that much -- they've just been making sure scaling works. But can teams of 10 at MSFT/GOOG really not put out new desirable product with any decent timeframe? They have enough staff members.
HRL is jointly owned by Boeing, Raytheon and General Motors. The parent companies commit to spending a certain amount on research every year, and researchers compete internally for those funds. This must have been a Boeing-funded project.

That unlikely ownership is an historical accident: those megacorps each acquired pieces of Hughes Aircraft, which built Hughes Research Labs, now HRL.
Don’t press record, press perform
"Taking off from a conventional runway, Concorde-2 would climb vertically into the air like a space rocket."

Wow! There's no way you'll be allowed handheld devices or a book when that happens. Drop it and someone 30 feet under you might get knocked unconscious. (Or each person gets a personal cabin.)

"US patent for an extraordinary concept aircraft"

Oh, one of those many odd-ball ideas that will never happen.
We'd love to make a more accurate measure of benefits, even if just for our own use in optimizing the program. What would you suggest?
First Pepsi smartphone rumored to go official next week
I see your point, but I think it's still important to give an end-to-end description, allowing people to tie it all together. The wall of text, if you'd read it, uses progressive layers in several places (like core Internet routing), specifically to try and avoid information overload for the reader.

If a reader were to actually use networks for something (like try to write a program that uses TCP), they would obviously need much more detailed knowledge. At that point, diagrams become necessary, as do much deeper explanations, but the goal of this post was to give an overview of what things are needed to provide end-to-end communication, and why.
Since Clojure is not a Lisp in the narrow sense, this is a useless question.

If Lisp means something broad, then we would list very different languages: Logo, Dylan, Julia, R, Javascript, Racket, ACL2, ... - again that would be a useless question.

Also, if GNU/Linux is so great, why do we keep needing new distributions... if Perl is so great, why do we keep needing new scripting languages? ... if the Porsche 911 is so great, why do we keep needing new variants?
Dance floor blues: the case for a social AI (1995)
Helpcrowd, questions from potential customers answered by existing ones
because "LISP can learn a lesson from all the languages that borrowed ideas from LISP. It is nature's way."

from http://blog.samibadawi.com/2013/05/lisp-prolog-and-evolution...
Wow. Never heard of 'Suspended' before; sad I missed it as I was the right age.
A. Because he's wanted for arrest, and you can't arrest someone over Google Hangout / Skype / etc.

B. Because the Ecuadorian government required guarantees the Swedish government cannot provide (because it'd be overriding the judiciary).
“Memory foam” approach to unsupervised learning
There is an interesting consistency in all of these images, nobody has a chronic medical condition it seems.
Automated Bus Experiment Begins
My read: math teaching @Berkeley is in fact horrible and this offended him. He was happy to shame the incumbents and refuse to submit to mediocrity. Naturally he'd prefer to keep his job and reform by example, but his compensation for being fired is that he can righteously expose the corruption on evidence of his firing (and knowing he had this leverage is why he was so uncompromising in pursuing good teaching).
What was wrong with Java type promotion already?
I really like the concept. The makers might want to reconsider the resource-hog on this one. My 300mbit connection and Mac Pro with 64GB Ram can barely handle navigating this.
Bingo! No system is perfect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...

They all have some advantages and disadvantages.

Weak coalition governments like Italy has had in much of recent history are what you can end up with with purely proportional voting, and they have some serious problems of their own.

I think FPTP with a STV type of system is nice - you can still vote for who you want to, without having to vote tactically, but there's still going to be a stronger result.
Actually, there are requirements for flying in Canadian trans-oceanic airspace. You need to fly IFR, and you might need an HF radio depending on the route:

https://www.copanational.org/CC-42.cfm

You also have to follow the usual rules about having liferafts on board, etc.
There is definitely an irony to people who make a show of disconnecting, but do so on the largess of society. In this piece, the guy who gets free electricity and shelter from his friend's shed. Or what I used to run into frequently, the rebel wanderer who eschews The System and couch surfs at the houses of his office worker friends.

I don't mind people who want to disconnect, but when you've got a campstove, a phone, a laptop, photovoltaic panels, a car... you're still enjoying the fruits of progress & society with the rest of us.
*screws UP a lot.
Profile of Naval Ravikant and AngelList's new seed fund
1.5 has an exact representation in floating-point, so adding 1.5 + 1.5 is always going to give you 3.0 in floating-point, also exactly represented.

Then whatever the type of integer rounding you do, you will get a solid 3.
Network Effect: Human Life on the Internet
Not creepy at all. I wanted to make a video of my brother but I was immediately shunned by some religious elders.
As a personal exercise, you should compare making a LISP interpreter or compiler to Wirth's treatment on doing an imperative language sometime. The difference is a 100-200 pages of work. Plus, the LISP can self-modify during compile to add any subsequent feature.

It's not machismo: it's just the design of LISP. Easy to parse, easy to modify, easy to evaluate, data as code, basic primitives that express anything else at least acceptably, and on 50's-60's hardware.

Additionally, building a useful LISP (esp Scheme) is an academic exercise done all over the world that's fairly easy even for amateurs. Building a useful, non-optimizing C++ compiler with only a subset of LISP capabilities is an exercise only undertaken by masochists very dedicated to compiler design. Even a prototype is easier for LISP (a few pages of code) while a prototype of C++ or even C's semantics is much more challenging. So, the empirical evidence counters your claim in terms of completed projects, their complexity, and features received in return.
that's $100 per month and it look pretty similar to me
Gist of the story (quote):
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Four tiny, driverless buses are on trial in the Greek city of Trikala, the first of five European cities to introduce the automated transportation.

The vehicles are part of CityMobil2, an EU-funded research project that is staging tests of automated road transport systems with self-driving buses across Europe. Each bus can carry 10 to 12 passengers along the road at speeds of up to 20 kilometers an hour, around the same speed as a milk float, but faster than a golf buggy.

“I was saying…a bus without a driver, how could it be?,” asked one elderly woman who took a trip out one of the tiny buses. “But I really enjoyed it and had no problem. It’s like a regular bus. I will use it, since it passes through my neighborhood.”

The buses are electric, silent and non-polluting.

...

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Bradleybuda can read my response to their comment and the rest of the thread it produced (including this comment). If they have an example of what they claim they can point to it.
Of course, one can run Common Lisp on the JVM and one can integrate CL with the JVM; one can add immutable persistent data structures to CL (but all the mutable stuff would still be available under the covers). I imagine that it'd be easier to add that stuff to CL than it would be to create a new language from scratch.

I honestly don't know how hard it would be to add software transactional memory and asynchronous agents to CL. I don't think it would be bad, but perhaps the end result would be so unlike CL that it wouldn't be pleasant to work in.
Additionally, the little printf their self looks eerily similar to The Little Prince.
Just by looking at it, I doubt there is enough shear strength to make it a useful sandwich panel web. Then again, I've been wrong before. But metallic/composite honeycomb is pretty well optimized stuff as it is.
Opternative, an online eye test
Heh, failure of imagination on my part. Thanks for the clarification :)