skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't really need it when reading tutorials either. Rainbow, simple matching, or manually counting parens is very much helpful when you're editing code, not so much when you're reading, at least if the code follows standard formatting idioms. You really get used to it: http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/parphobia.png I would even argue you don't even absolutely need matching despite its helpfulness since Lisp was done and is done on many primitive editors without such features including pen and paper. As a first order approximation, you have just as many parens (braces, brackets) as a C-like language, the opening one is just on the other side, and C too can be done just fine with primitive editors.
Reminds me of the Velvet Underground song / story "The Gift"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4
This isn't really them "losing money" then, right? Generally, a bank's business model is to borrow money at X% (where X = interest paid to depositors) and lend at Y%, where Y > X, and where that interest revenue exceeds operating costs. I'd be surprised (and appalled) if they actually turned a profit just on fees.
Are there any examples of a non-blog use case with Hakyll e.g. a partly static, partly generated website?

How does Hugo compare to Hakyll?
> Nobody seems to have a clue about how "consciousness", whatever it is, really works.

OK.

> Higher level thinking is mostly a strategy module for the "next 15 seconds" control system.

I'm not convinced we have even that much of a clue about consciousness.
Former neuroscientist here, whose lab studied consciousness. I'm not sure about the book, but the review is light on details.

We know biology is connected somehow to conscious awareness (sleep, illusions, blindsight, TMS, etc.) but we still haven't jumped the gap separating the objective from the subjective. It's called the Hard Problem for good reason.
To be fair all of the above were built before 1970s. There are a few modern buildings like "The Broad" that are quite interesting. But overwhelmingly LA architecture is now dominated by tasteless developers like the one described in the article.
That's not why Congress is funding Commercial Crew insufficiently. They're up to a different game. Delaying Commercial Crew won't help ULA much—the looming (latest) threat to ULA by SpaceX is reusability of the Falcon 9 first stage, and that is going to happen soon regardless of Commercial Crew. Also, NASA doesn't need to "catch up" to SpaceX—NASA is wants SpaceX and Boeing to get these vehicles flying by 2017 and has loudly and sincerely requested full funding for the Commercial Crew Program to that end.

There's another pair of elephants (well, pigs) in the room that together are devouring $3 billion worth of resources per year that could be better spent on other space investments, including the Commercial Crew Program.
The page says:

> Most programming languages have several syntax rules. Lisp has one: everything is a list. The first element is a function name, and the rest are its arguments. Thus, the language is simply a collection of compile- and run-time functions, trivially extensible.

Step by step.

> Lisp has one syntax rule: everything is a list.

That's wrong. completely wrong. 'everything is a list' is not THE ONE syntax rule of Lisp. Lisp, like most other programming languages, has MANY syntax rules.

A defining feature of current Lisp dialects is even that the syntax rules are programmer extensible and thus Lisp has an unbounded number of syntax rules. Thus the complete opposite is true: Lisp has arbitrary many syntax rules.

> The first element is a function name, and the rest are its arguments.

That's also wrong. It always was. Lisp has since day zero supported more than just function call forms.

Valid Lisp expressions:

3
"1 2"
((lambda (a) a) 1) ; (lambda (a) a) is not a function name
(defun foo () ()) ; defun is not a function name
(let ((a 1)) a) ; let is not a function name

> Thus, the language is simply a collection of compile- and run-time functions, trivially extensible.

I would not even know what that actually might mean...
Maybe I should change that to say harmful drugs.
Posted 4 times today already. Original here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544826
> I don't think protests constitute mobbing.

A large group of people surrounding one someone and screaming at them, or barging into events and disrupting them, or spitting on people? That's mobbing and it's wrong.

> But on the whole, I still don't see any evidence of there being a problem.

Would you feel the same way if it was Tea Partiers doing the exact same things?

> To me, tradition and authority warrant no respect unless it can be justified.

These traditions are what allow people with strongly varying societal views to coexist peacefully in a large country such as this one. The only alternatives to such traditions are either segregation or civil war.
I wouldn't put it past Apple to release a hybrid ARM/Intel system and figure out how to run the right binaries on the right processors. Much like the Rosetta environment, your system would get more and more performant the more of your software switched over, and for a lot of native Mac apps it would be a switch in Xcode and a recompile.

It would be a lot like the discrete GPU switching; running a program that needs more power, run it on the x86 processor; when it's not in use, put it to sleep.
$1750 a month...
This is the standard reductionist position, and the standard strawmannirg of people who don't agree with it.

To explain it crudely, yes, it all ultimately reduces to the neuronal substrate and no one in their right mind disagrees. The point is that only looking at this level ignores the important and large set of data that is humans' first-hand observations of consciousness, what you're able to perceive, study, and observe about conscious experience, the kind of observations that Searle makes. To just write off first hand observation data as irrelevant strikes me as anti-scientific if not ideological. I mean, why wouldn't you try to develop a system of consciousness that starts with this data, in tandem with neuronal studies (there's no inherent contradiction)?
> What you generally want in a society is: lots of poor people to be able to get out of poverty (into middle class), middle class to have a decent chance to become upper middle class, etc -- and of course most middle class to be stable and not fall into poverty.

I hear this a lot but I really don't understand the logic. Because the middle class is a subjective and proportionate categorization, your target is always going to be moving. Who cares about joining the middle class if most of their needs already being met.

If, for instance, a replicator was invented that provided food and shelter to anyone who wanted it for free, a hell of a lot of people could live quite happily and comfortably without being middle class. So the goal should be to get to that sort of scenario as fast as possible. That is, a world in which the cost of covering our basic human needs is so small that nobody needs to be middle-class or higher to be happy.
For 500MM I'd want something that you could nuke from orbit and it would still be standing.
> I understand that you may find e-cigarette smoke annoying but that's not a sufficient reason to ban something in a free society.

Of course it is! We ban a lot of things that are annoying. We have noise ordinances and various other public nuisance laws, as do all other free societies.
Can somebody explain the 'single-core' description in the tests? Doesn't the number of cores need to be taken into account when considering the actual performance?

This may be wrong, but the way I'm looking at it is like comparing the power of a 4 cylinder car vs an 8 cylinder but measuring the power that comes only out of one cylinder as your comparison measurement. It is possible that a single cylinder from a 4-banger creates more power than a single cylinder from an 8, but in the real world, that won't matter.

I'm guessing I'm wrong, but why?
Pretty common in CS papers. It sure beats fighting LaTeX trying to get N different author blocks to show up properly.
The Man Who Swims, Surfs, Skydives and Inspires Without Limbs
Call me cynical, but have you noticed that the minute someone becomes unpopular with a certain community, all the press start releasing these articles questioning their work, management skills, etc?

I mean yeah, Linus isn't the most civil person ever. But the timing just seems all too unlikely to be coincidental.
On the other hand, at least you can get those updates on your older iOS devices. Most Android devices have never seen updates at all, and of the ones who have, most of them will never see more than a few minor updates above what they came with.
I love the minimalism. Jekyll?
Bring more Tor into your life
On Android, I got a "starter set" in Speed Dial, including:
Play Now
Free VPN
Amazon
CNN

then later, they snuck in:
Nordstrom
Walmart
Booking.com
What do you think about Julia?
Do you know what? It didn't bug me so much that Facebook paid ~5k tax by playing the system. It bugged me that my tiny company paid more because they couldn't afford to play the system. As it stands small business has a huge disadvantage because it can't afford the amazing accounts and legal team. It's somewhere between sad, annoying and painful.
Not only that, in Australia to pay rent you can just set up BPay or an automated transfers. You can also wire your deposit to most landlords.

In the US they want cheques and money orders. It's insane.
On the subject of loops:

Common Lisp’s loop is so powerful that people invented functional programming so that they’d never have to use it.

G_Morgan in reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a481l/so_to_get...
An Abrupt End to Debian Live
Automagical.
A group that performs an actual attack, hands the result to a nation state adversary, and doesn't publish the results either before or after (except in the abstract of a withdrawn talk) is hardly the "loyal opposition".

edit: Academics are not Obama's proverbial JV team. One should expect them to be as smart as those working for internal agencies, if somewhat less focused on attacking real-world systems. It seems that in this case, the only difference is that they're somewhat worse at keeping secrets, but given that the talk was withdrawn, it's not that they didn't try. So I don't see the grounds for the implicit suggestion in the quoted tweets that they aren't 'real' adversaries.
Pelican does too. Just use 'make regenerate' instead of 'make publish': http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.6.3/publish.html#make
Just playing devils advocate but it doesn't sound like they're creating radio interference. It sounds like they're interfering at the protocol layer, which would be another matter (likely also against regulations)
Planet Money actually did a podcast about this. Banks are basically incentivized not to have it and keep ACH that way it is. A free and fast transfer service would destroy their wire revenue stream.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo...
This misses the point entirely. Nobody is saying that security researchers shouldn't find vulnerabilities.

The problem is that rather than publishing or filing a bug, the researchers helped the government exploit it for $1M. Effectively the same as selling the exploit on the black market.
off-topic ... but i LOVE alamo's policy. my daughter loves it as "the place where they'll give you the boot."
Model Aggregation for Distributed Content Anomaly Detection
Just because the party can't win elections doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
My point was "this is more money than CMU should have gotten for looking into the Tor network, especially from the FBI" rather than "taxpayers paid for this"
I wonder what the meetings between Union Square and Kickstarter are like..
The difference is that vaping only benefits the vaper, but the harms caused by vaping affect everyone.

In contrast, everyone in society benefits from the mobility and economic activity facilitated by transportation. Even if you never drive a car, take a bus, or even leave your house, you are better off because of cars, busses, trains, and airplanes because of the increased economic growth they facilitate. The benefit and the harm are both fully socialized.
Iirc the attack involved setting up an exit and a relay, then sneaking a message through, so it could tell when a circuit connected to both, and thereby deanonymize users.
Everything would be so much simpler if the people writing "secure" software could pick who got to attack it.
I believe the complaint here is not that they were analyzing the software, but that they were launching active attacks and using the results in an unethical manner, i.e. to conduct possibly-illegal criminal investigations. This is Not OK in the same way that it's Not OK to go around breaking into people's houses with lockpicks and searching them on the grounds that you are conducting lock research. Note that I understand that physical lock security is a relatively well-settled field. That is not relevant to the point at hand; even if it were an important thing to study, it would be Not OK for the government to be paying people to go around picking locks.

Edit: Furthermore, by the same logic, it is acceptable for the government to do nearly anything illegal in order to conduct "research". Microsoft, Google, and co claim to be secure, so therefore it should be OK for the government to be attacking them.
My daughter went to pick up her ducklings, goslings, and chicks at the post office. They apologized that they had lost the box. They knew it was in there because they could hear it. They just had to move a bunch of stuff to find it.
Ah. That's a lot more forgivable, so, my mistake.

You certainly are correct that alternatives for Flash video exist too. Youtube is a great exemplar of this, but sadly, even their competitors (such as Vimeo or Dailymotion) seem to bother.
So You’re Moving to Portland
And Avalanche welcomed them, instead of sending goons to their houses.
Well if we are frank the post didn't really had an opinion (a constructed argument) or a valuable summary of the actual case.
If this type of content would be posted by a "complete no-body" (as is not some one of note either in the HN community or in any other community) it would quite likely have gotten flagged for being used to generate views when one could link to the content directly.
Also quite a few people stay away from Google services like Google+ or at least prefer not to use them, so for those people offering the link to the actual court ruling might be of service.
"Mailing May" (http://www.amazon.com/Mailing-May-Michael-O-Tunnell/dp/00644...) is a good (fictionalized) account of the story in the third paragraph, that of May Pierstorff. (By the way, the town was Grangeville, ID, not Graneville.)
I assume it's meant to be there for those who don't have a nifty http mocking library.
There are a lot of much better documentaries with proper comments available. Many intellectual Austrians have the DVD set of Hugo Portisch' TV documentaries about Austrians History (Oesterreich I + II), and most have seen it on TV.

I have seen most of the pictures from this Smithsonian collection already. Maybe because the Austrian Film Archive worked with them. Esp. the pictures with the huge Swastica flags all over the streets are very well known.
But I as Austrian I enjoyed their German wartime video and picture archive, which I haven't seen before.
"It brings me no joy to observe this, but the future of mass market portable computing involves neither a mouse pointer nor an x86 processor."

Or freedom.
A nation divided - into perfect square miles
Does anybody know why the researchers pulled their BlackHat presentation?
But after-the-fact reputational effects seem fine, if the action was unethical.
Already posted five times this week... first here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512811
FYI: The Dr Jekyll's Themes Directory @ http://drjekyllthemes.github.io lists 100+ ready-to-use (fork) Jekyll themes including some more minimal themes.
The tone is nice but I don't think he is right about the science of it. For example he talks about how more data should be gathered about this but climate change has been in the public eye for more than a decade now so there's tons of data on it so this sort of hedging of the bets isn't necessary anymore.

This paragraph is a good example of the problem here:
> However I think those of us with rational, logical minds might have reservations about a group of scientists who can be so sure that the earth is warming and that human activities are the definite cause of it.

This person is probably a computer scientist and yet they don't trust a "group of scientists" which I am assuming by context to be climate scientists, who are literally the experts in the field he is talking about
We already have similar tech here in the US, it just hasn't been adopted by everybody yet.
Hatchet&Bear wood carving photoblog
My blog is fairly minimal and also built with Jekyll, and licensed under MIT. Anyone is welcome to repurpose it for their needs:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sircmpwn.github.io
World first: blood-brain barrier opened non-invasively to deliver chemotherapy
> If I can just create a Docker container for my ops team to deploy, without them needing to know what is inside of it, I can pretty much use any language I want.

If you can get them to deploy anything you want without them needing to know what is inside of it... your ops team is too trusting, in my opinion.
CMU doesn't need a warrant to scrape or transmit Tor traffic, and neither do you.

Intent will matter very much in this instance: If the FBI paid someone to do something for them that the FBI would need a warrant to do, then there's a problem. The same would be true if a warrant-less sheriff paid a private investigator to eavesdrop on a suspect.

Otherwise, if, in the course of their research, no matter who funded them, CMU researchers found someone doing something illegal and reported it to the Man, that's generally regarded as good citizenship. If, in the course of my research, I happen to unmask a bike-theft ring, you can be rather certain that I'll call the cops.

Tor is a good invention that needs our support, but it isn't a license to do illegal things.

Tor is, in many ways, an encrypted Twitter. You know that everyone can read what you send and some people will actively attempt to crack it. You bet everything on the encryption and network structure to avoid interception and localization. I don't think there ought to be any inherent presumption of privacy attached to the protocol; to assume that there is one is to be exposed to any breach in the protocol's design.
CMU alum here.

Let's just say there are quite a few rants happening in my network on Facebook.
My guess is that the government saw it, then made them an offer conditional on them pulling it.
You don't.

You run the scutwork of the economy with automation, robots, etc, which provides a basic living for nothing, and let people pursue their vocations.

The process for handling large allocations of resources is left as an exercise, but I'd favour direct democracy via recursive vote delegation ("liquid democracy"), at the most local possible scope (following the principle of subsidiarity).
Thanks for your feedback on the quality of the architecture. Are you suggesting that I try to come in with a starting offer of $350 and see if we can close somewhere just north of $400?
> 1500 is the MTU of Ethernet...

It's the de-facto MTU of much of The Internet. Baby Jumbo (MTU >1500 but <9k), Jumbo (MTU ~9k), and Super Jumbo (MTU substantially larger than 9k) frames exist, and are supported by many (but -sadly- not all) Ethernet devices.

Edit:

> Also with how global traffic is managed smaller packets tend to get priority...

Do you have a reliable citation for this? I would expect that core and near-core devices would handle so much traffic, that they all would be using MTUs far higher than 1500 bytes per frame.
Right, I agree! But that's why Harp is so neat: harpjs.com
Don't Apple Pay and Android Pay operate almost identically now? The original Google Wallet/Pay implementation which I used years ago via NFC was different. I don't believe the Android Pay name change is just branding.
That's a fallacy of relative privation though. "B happens more frequently, is more dangerous, or causes more harm than A.
Therefore A can be ignored."

AlexandrB was dismissing one argument because he found a bigger issue.
that's awesome, I was playing with trying to carve a bowl, thought I might be using the wrong tools, found that, looked good, great references thanks guys
Feds allegedly paid CMU researchers to crack TOR network
Astronomers begin building super telescope to see dawn of the Universe
I represent a seller with a property in South America that might meet your needs. Are you in the market?
> kinda like Sublime's advantage over Vim/Emacs.

Sublime is trash compared to Emacs.
Solar System at scale
Its all about the clicks.
You think your ops team really knows what they are pushing? Whether you are deploying jar files, Debian packages, or Docker containers, or whatever else, the ops people rarely look inside. Their main concerns are security and performance, and those can be audited using black-box testing. Code quality has to be enforced by engineers, because ops people are not capable of doing code reviews.
If KickStarter truly reflects these ideals, they should decentralize their crowdfunding platform on the blockchain (eg Ethereum) and only charge the bare minimum fee required to maintain/grow that platform...
the.jefferson.grid Instagram account linked in the article: https://instagram.com/the.jefferson.grid/
I assume the CMU folks didn't break into any one elses nodes. It seems like one of the principles of Tor node operation is that you can run your nodes however you want. I don't think there is any binding agreement or even strong implication that someone operating a Tor node agrees to not be hostile to users.

Perhaps it was unethical by the standards of university research, but I wouldn't be bothered by the government doing this. If the government or a university researcher idled in your irc channel and logged the communications I would think that was okay. I kinda view this the same way.
You could also just put a "[" in front of "4" and "7".

Parinfer will infer the closing brackets.
How is that relevant? I will tell you.

Experiments on animals are not pretty, but they are the least harmful way of moving science forward.

The only thing we can do is to make sure no animal have to die/suffer without real necessity and be grateful for their sacrifices.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550043
If, as the Tor blog post insinuates, the product of the CMU research was "targeted data dump to the Feds to investigate criminal activity," I could see the hand-wringing being warranted. That's paying a university to do law enforcement work.

If the product was (as it seems based on public information) "paper about how to attack Tor along with a couple of case studies," I really don't see the problem.

The kerfuffle around the talk and paper's release is certainly interesting in its own right, though.
See also http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-docs-show-a-universit...
and all retail establishments on major/famous streets
Yes, a WiFi hotspot is a station: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/153.

The term “radio station” or “station” means a station
equipped to engage in radio communication or radio
transmission of energy.
Do you have a link for Wittgenstein. I've read Wittgenstein but never anything so personal -- I'm interested in hearing this.
I've got an idea for an endless game that uses neural networking and game AI to generate game worlds that develop stories even without the player's direct involvement.
They could take it since you're a prisoner.
You didn't read it very closely:

>Penrose, for example, thinks the mystery may
yield to a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics.