skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with LISP is the fact that it is only appreciated when a program's user is both mentally sophisticated in logic in general as well as the knowledge domain of the application. When "applied to education", many conversations imply the education of elementary, middle, and high school level students. The inner logical work of the most basic LISP program is simply beyond the grasp of 99% of non-college aged students. I fail to see how LISP can have any meaningful education impact given the student age ranges desired, and the OP desires.
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Without comment on its rightness or wrongness (because I'm still ambivalent myself since I've never personally been really bitten), it's been amusing watching some people in the Go community who have come from Ruby or Node who get really behind the idea of not importing little libraries for one or two functions. There's a lot of people who, if they see a little function that, say, computes a standard deviation in the middle of sixty other statistics functions they don't care about, would rather copy & paste the function into their own code than add an external dependency. (Hopefully they attribute it properly and watch the license.)

Perhaps some of them take it too far, but it's at least an interesting perspective, in light of stuff like the post and your experiences in Ruby.

I do agree in general that you have to be sure to consider the external dependency as a cost, and the benefit you get for it better outweigh the costs. Exactly how you determine that varies from language to language quite substantially, and probably varies by personal taste and experience level too. For instance, you might be less inclined to take an external dependency for something you find quite easy to write yourself, whereas someone not as skilled may find it preferable to take the external dependency if it means they don't have to learn the nuances of whatever it is enough to write it themselves.
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I am about to start my own blog and feel like I need some ggod example.
The Inaccurate Predictions of Back to the Future
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I think the new `getrandom` interface fixes that, by blocking until /dev/urandom is initialized.
Clearly medical privacy does not exist.
While this may be simpler than REST and cleaner than SOAP, I find REST to be far more elegant.

>An HTTP 200 is returned on successful completion, and HTTP 500 is returned in the case of an error (i.e. an exception). Note that exceptions are intended to represent unexpected failures, not application-specific errors. No other HTTP status codes are supported.

Now you are just using HTTP as your transport layer, you can very well make it customised to your particular needs rather than defining a spec. This might result in easier client code, but why not use Thrift if that is what you need.
I just bought a number of 5 TB HDDs on sale for $140, and Samsung has been driving the prices of SSDs down every iteration.

I agree it was stagnant for a while, but it's not really static now.
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That doesn't solve the problem of which country should get what share of the taxes.
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People still make that argument now. SCOTUS decisions don't suddenly change everyone's mind.
Certainly, if you're not eating for performance, flexible dieting is absolutely a viable strategy.

On the other hand, if you're riding the razor's edge and trying to do something crazy like get into lower single digit bodyfat while gaining muscle and strength, even a little junk food can make a noticeable difference. I recognize that isn't the typical case though.
If somebody only takes a penny from my wallet, they still stole it without my consent. Even if x rays were 100% completely harmless, it still amounts to being searched without my consent.
This is another issue where the definition of "right" is somewhat complicated.

Does one really have the "right" to have a son?

Does one really have the "right" to adopt a child? I mean, be it gay, straight, married or a widower, is there a "right" to become the parent of a child?

I honestly think this deserves a greater reflection than a mere "but other people CAN, so anyone has to be able to also," which is the implicit reasoning behind gay adoption or general adoption policies in modern countries.

Nothing to do, as i see it, with equality.
Same in Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies
The quote I cited was about heroin in particular; I don't know the state of anti-cocaine methods and the article doesn't go into it. It only states that apparently we have a perfectly good method of curing heroin addiction that's not being used for pretty stupid reasons.
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So how does this compare to XML-RPC?

I see that it is using JSON instead of XML.

> Support currently exists for implementing web RPC services in Java, and consuming services in Java, Objective-C/Swift, or JavaScript.

While I may personally feel that JSON is a better format than XML, there are a implementations of XML-RPC for almost all languages and platforms which is a huge advantage.
Have you read any of the messages she got? Hard to see how many of those were taken out of context.

I guess getting 3 of those messages a day that she got (over 10 years) is acceptable? What's the cutoff for being acceptable here so I know when I should take her seriously.

What about the ones that seem like threats? What about the ones from the person that was arrested for stalking another woman? When do those count?
By that same argument, the computer market is a one-sided monopoly as well. Apple and Apple alone produces and sells Apple computers.
What ... what? How many messages per day from some random person saying they want to fuck you until it becomes unacceptable?
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This is the problem with all the broken institutions in America today - too many people are cashing in big time, so they have no interest in changing the status quo.

Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, education, Department of War, tax, minimum wage, environmental protections, unlimited campaign contributions (i.e buying politicians) ... the list goes on
It's frustrating when a library function does a worse job than 15 lines of code you wrote yourself.

It's doubly frustrating when a library function is obsoleted and replaced wholesale rather than fixed of whatever defects it has.

And file I/O is triply frustrating because there are all sorts of corner cases, plus leaked abstractions from the file system and hardware.

The moral of the story is that you should never use libraries, and never do any reading or writing of files. Wait, what?
> How many decades of astronomical progress did we lose to Urban VII?

Good question. I've never thought of astronomy as characterized by a constant stream of progress building mainly on the work of past astronomers; instead, I've seen it as more in line with the model of "technology advances, with ancillary benefits to all sorts of different fields including astronomy". For example, radio telescopes owe a lot to progress in physics, but not very much to progress in astronomy specifically.

If that's the case, "none" is a very plausible answer to your question.
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(South African) Students storm gates of Parliament in ‘fees must fall’ protest
Why is it parasitic again? These journals are providing a service. You may not agree with the cost of that service and are free (both authors and reader) to get that service somewhere else.
And Flickr.
We use a $2,000 Glowforge to make stuff out of frickin’ lasers
The difference is it's invasive. You couldn't shine a flashlight up people's skirts.
That first link will probably 404 within the year. The next time, you should right click and copy the link, which hasn't been redirected.

https://archive.org/download/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goa...
Sure, but since you've packed such a large percentage of your calories into this one meal, what happens to that fat at the later time when you would otherwise be eating again?
Correct me if I'm wrong since I don't really know how it works .... but the video shows no such thing. It shows the car exiting full-auto mode with a panic alarm to the user telling them to take over.
The article doesn't mention adult adoption in Japan at all, which is strange. Japanese adult adoption (a centuries long-standing practice) was covered in the US news and HN in the past year.
I bodybuild and I'm trying to get contest lean currently. If that wasn't a concern I would certainly have a furious-pete level youtube channel; even among powerlifters and football players I've always been notorious for my appetite.
From 2013, revenue sources (quarterly):

Banner Ads: $423M

Search Revenue: $403M

Other: $245M

2014 total revenue for year was 4.6 Billion

Apparently they're selling a few billion dollars worth of ads.
I would love to see a polling system that is not as dumb as first-past-the-post [ie only pick one] which is currently used everywhere and provides very little information.
If they want to win /more/ than they want to not use it.
A lot.

Millions use Yahoo website daily and Yahoo email.

Yahoo is the fourth/fifth most visited website in the world. WORLD.

Yahoo's ONLY problem is that they want to be a leader in their industry. If they did not and were content with milking their content and user base, they would be boring but very profitable.

Yahoo can deploy many products to its audience and be a leader again.
I was gonna reply how we need to prevent DNS queries from being eavesdropped. But it seems, DNSSEC does not support traffic encryption:

>DNSSEC does not provide confidentiality of data; in particular, all DNSSEC responses are authenticated but not encrypted. (From the wiki)

However, DNS poisoning attacks are still relevant because not all of the web is on HTTPS.
Siri as of 2013: http://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/
"Whenever you speak into Apple’s voice activated personal digital assistant, it ships it off to Apple’s data farm for analysis. Apple generates a random numbers to represent the user and it associates the voice files with that number. This number — not your Apple user ID or email address — represents you as far as Siri’s back-end voice analysis system is concerned.

Once the voice recording is six months old, Apple “disassociates” your user number from the clip, deleting the number from the voice file. But it keeps these disassociated files for up to 18 more months for testing and product improvement purposes.

“Apple may keep anonymized Siri data for up to two years,” Muller says “If a user turns Siri off, both identifiers are deleted immediately along with any associated data.”"
Western Digital buying SanDisk in $19B storage merger
It starts with a comparison between William Randolph Hearst and the film Citizen Hearst, saying "But he didn't call the movie Citizen Hearst. He called it Citizen Kane, and it's now regarded by many as the best film ever made." Whereas with the new Jobs film, "his entertaining work of fiction isn't labeled for what it is."

Wouldn't a better comparison be to Oliver Stone's JFK?

What makes this more odd is how the essay goes on to say:

> It would be as if you made a movie called JFK almost entirely focused on Kennedy's womanizing and political rivalries, and said nothing about civil rights and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Or, you know, a film with exactly that title but entirely focused on his assassination.
Why Docker, why not RPMs they are not that hard to build. They have years design an work behind them.
I hate bloat. 20 years ago I could get the same work done today in 1000th the memory and disk space.
You've brought up good points about carbs. However, It's arguably better and more realistic to skip breakfast than to have a small dinner at 5pm. Typical breakfast foods are full of carbs and can be more easily avoided. This is how I and many others use Intermittent Fasting to avoid carb overload.
Yeah, it's definitely a failure of project management. I'd like to point out that GOV.UK have greatly improved in this regard recently. Mostly by the old fashioned approach of having senior permanent staff who know what they're doing.

Contracting out at the top level (ie, including all the project management) is just a way to guarantee a money sink, because either you have a huge inflexible spec built into the contract or you have an area of vagueness where responsibility can be dodged.
A number of these guidelines reinforce my biggest complaint with React: it is architecturally difficult to avoid monolithic view files.

In a traditional web app, we have 4 layers: client views, client app, server app, database. React, described as a strict view layer, in reality is being used as much more. At this point, it is not just consuming the client app, but is also taking nibbles at the server app as well.

To each their own of course, but i would ask people to hesitate about these decisions. The architectural issues with monolithic views is well known, and just because we have a shiny new tool does not mean we should throw that understanding by the wayside.

Source: i work full-time on a React and Backbone app
This seems to be corollary of the old adage: "the better you get, the better you'd better get".
"or how fast a person could swim if there were no restrictions on the swimsuits."

Define swim. If you don't, people will end up wearing a boat (the suits banned a few years ago started looking like them by providing floatation and being somewhat rigid) and having gloves on their legs and arms that resemble fins or paddles.
Did you read the article? It's not about gay people adopting children.
I wasn't complaining about page fees, which are indeed subject to the laws of the market. I was complaining about fees charged for getting copies of the papers, which are governed by government-granted monopolies on producing copies of each paper, known as "copyrights". Those fees are not subject to the laws of supply and demand; the publisher can set them as high or low as it wishes, because you cannot simply go to a different publisher to get the paper if you think the price is too high. Consequently, the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics does not apply, or even come close.

The yearly expenses for arXiv https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/12711648... are about US$780k. This supports http://arxiv.org/stats/get_monthly_downloads about 11 million copies of papers produced per month, or 132 million per year, for a cost of US$0.006 per paper. These are the same kinds of papers Elsevier tries to charge you US$30 for.

When two different providers of an identical service are charging you amounts that vary by a factor of 5000, you can see that the market is failing to promote public welfare, and so markets are not a good way to organize that part of society.
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Microsoft actually did start competing with Apple on hardware already back in 2006:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/14/microsoft-launches-the-zu...

So clearly Ballmer had this in the cards for a long time. The various iterations of Zune, even though commercially unsuccessful, laid the groundwork for both the "Metro" UI language and Microsoft's in-house hardware design.

Maybe Zune was a necessary "weaning period" in reducing Microsoft's OEM dependency.
You may want to look up "two-sided market".
Their fantasy football platform, at least, is the best of the ones I've tried. Lots of obvious product placements and ads, but good UI and UX, well-gamified weekly/seasonal trophies, and interesting statistical stuff I haven't seen anywhere else.
Does it open a socket for every rpc?
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> And yes, a publication in an Elsevier or Springer journal rather than a new open-access one can make a difference of prestige that could change which university I work for in the next 4 years, for example.

But won't every university you apply to tell you that that isn't the case?
Really? I've published a bunch of papers and only ever got one hard copy - and that was one copy of the journal, no additional copies to share.
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It's not the first time it happened, the entire editorial board of Topology[0] resigned and went on to create the Journal of Topology back in 2006~2007, and over way less than the Lingua demands: Topology's editor just wanted better (lower) pricing policies. Same story for the Journal of Logic Programming (in 2000), the Journal of Algorithms (in 2003) or the International Journal of Solids and Structures (in 2005).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_(journal)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Topology
I suspect most of the time there are no major competing local businesses -- e.g. I don't see what Dutch businesses would directly lose from Starbucks moving their headquarters there; most likely, there will be gains in local supporting industries.
Then all things being equal would it not be better to space out short meals to prevent fat generation at all?
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From an engineering perspective, it's probably cooler/better to work on tech stuff (as the other companies have), rather than news or stocks or sports, where the underlying tech isn't as important as how it's marketed.
> Property tax is independent of corporate income tax.

Politically, it's very much not, at least not anymore. As we said, property is now a concept almost entirely linked to companies, on the scale we're talking about. Very few people directly own the personal corporate jets they fly around in (this is just an example, please don't nitpick -- you can replace it with pretty much any item of significant value you can think of, with very few exceptions).

> You can incorporate your business in whichever jurisdiction has the most favorable taxes. You can't file your personal taxes there unless you actually live and have citizenship there.

That's unfortunately not the case. The UK has non-dom arrangements for non-citizens spending significant time there; most countries will have something similar -- the only exception being the US, which can sort-of strong-arm its own citizens because of its exceptional power and reach. In most cases, the global elite can shop around for their preferred residency, Montecarlo being the pioneer in this sort of market.

> [living on a boat] is clearly illegal unless you actually do.

Unless you're famous enough that authorities can easily clock the time you spend here or there, determining where you live X days per year in this day and age is extremely difficult.

This is why a lot of famous people move to Montecarlo then have to eventually switch back: unlike your average industrialist, they're very easy to keep track of, being a small elite with entire industries dedicated to tracking their movements and publicise them. Why did they think of moving to Montecarlo in the first place? Because that's perfectly normal among the "regularly rich".

> And I don't think that works in the US

Yes, the US is an exception. Most other countries accomodate this exception in their legal code, because their interest is to attract wealthy US citizens to their shores. You cannot extend this norm to all countries, nor would it be likely to survive the day the US stopped to be the dominant superpower it currently is.
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Closed source -
Question: Why should I trust you/your company with anything?
Answer: I shouldn't.
SandDisk SSD's aren't cheaper, not when you are comparing oranges to oranges, they sell allot of very very low end SSD's their performance series costs more than comparable drives from Samsung.

There are other companies that also sell cheap SSD's like Micron and Crucial but the big names Samsung, Intel, OCZ(Toshiba) usually sell quite high end devices.

Samsung pretty much blew the market out of the water with their Evo series it comes very close to the performance of it's Pro series and other high end SSD's out there where it comes to real world use at a fraction of the cost. It brought the costs of SSD's down to less than 350$ per TB while keeping outstanding performance and life span.
Non-technical people are going to be at more risk of total data loss if they try to store it themselves, sadly. This is a big part of why cloud services have taken off: they're outsourcing all the sysadmin for you.

Takedowns are never going to go beyond a fraction of a percent of the population.
Does coffee roasting really require that high-skill labor?
Oh how I wish this existed 10 years ago when all I had were library books and w3schools!
“Arrow This”: clearing up how ES6 = arrows handle 'this' and others
There are good arguments to be made about your point, but I don't think this is necessarily one of them. As the article quotes, "The data is anonymous, but it allows us to see where those folks have gotten care."

What Amino has done can easily be done with anonymized data. They only need to know patient age, patient gender, physician, location of physician, what the physician billed for (I assume the ICD-9 codes). I doubt there's enough information there to identify individuals.
We should remove floating point support from general-purpose CPUs and leave it to GPUs, where it belongs.

The vast majority of CPU die real estate is devoted to mitigating the issues of constrained memory bandwidth and high memory latency. Taking out the FPUs is not going to make much difference. Not to mention the fact that you'd lose the ability to do floating point math in latency-sensitive environments, likely causing serious performance problems for whole classes of applications.
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"... because DNS, invented in 1983 before the public consumption of the Internet, does not perform any authentication."

Authentication of what?

An end point? No.

A domainname? OK, I'll play along.

And why would "authentication" of a dommainname be necessary?

Maybe because the end user is communicating with a shared DNS cache operated by a third party instead of using their own?

But I do not use shared DNS caches. I use my own cache.

Moreover I use CurveDNS which provides encryption of DNS packets in transit and is at least as good at "authenticating" the proper authoritative server for each domainname as DNSSEC.

How would DNSSEC serve me?

DNSSEC could be a way for certain groups to maintain control over the use of DNS. Similar to the way SSL CA system has been used to control the use of encryption. Both the use of domainnames and SSL certificates are each commercial in nature (pay to play). They do not have to be, but schemes like CA system and DNSSEC allow for this to occur via centralisation of authority.
Speaking of Amazon, I thought that docker was going to hit their bottom line as now people could easily fully utilize their ec2 instances and thus cutting into their already thin margins.
However they jumped past this problem with Lambda. Because in the end I don't want to run an operating system. I don't even want to run tomcat. I just want to run a function in tha cloud.
Docker makes it easier to shovel around your application while lambda is the next phase of cloud development.
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Decimals are extremely important in financial applications.

Fast decimals may range from unimportant to extremely important in specific situations, according to what is considered fast enough in those situations.

> We should remove floating point support from general-purpose CPUs and leave it to GPUs, where it belongs.

That's just silly. Let's move an extremely common and deeply integrated programming language feature onto special hardware.

You do realize that "computer science" once actually consisted of little more than numerical analysis? Now you want to kick the latter off the computer. :)
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