skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
actually we do know of its former location, but they do tend to move them. checkout this page for a picture of where the pip was formerly broadcast:

http://priyom.org/military-stations/russia/the-pip
Even if your assumption about the trend being to higher levels of abstraction (which is highly questionable) is correct, this doesn't give any credence to the prediction that it will make Lisp finally popular. Yes, Lisp is a 4GL but even if everyone is rushing toward 4GL, there are plenty to choose from and it's not clear that they will flock toward Lisp.

Even if CS is still pretty recent (50+ years), there is still something to be said about a language that never managed to become mainstream in that period. Whether Lisp was ahead of its time is irrelevant. The question is: will there ever be a time where Lisp will be ripe for its time?

I think that window closed a while ago. It's not about the parentheses or its FP side, it's just that the world is moving toward statically typed languages with sophisticated type inference, and it's a league that Lisp simply doesn't belong to.
Why is it so important to share it? Often I find expressions of art wherein I find enjoyment in their nuances are almost unshareable, in that other people's reactions to it will almost invariably disappoint you (the "Check out this new song I heard!" problem).

There is a different joy in knowing you experienced something no one else will.
I can think of at least 2 advantages.

1. only packaging once, opposed to making a .deb, a .rpm and so on.

2. as soon as its in the language repo, it's available everywhere. Even if I make an apt-get package, I'd have to wait for Ubuntu/Debian/others to include it in their repos. Or I'd have to host a ppa, requiring users to search for it and add it to their package manager. RPM fusion and AUR simplify that, but it still seems hard to have your own packages on .deb systems.
No, South Korea is arguably the least equal, developed nation.

"Korean women with high levels of education actually have a more difficult time being accommodated in the workforce. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2012, the current ratio of women to men in upper management positions and public office is a meager 1 to 9. At 104th, Korea ranks below some of the world’s least developed countries, such as Burkina Faso, Malawi and Syria."

"Women in Korea make on average 39 percent less than men. This difference in wages ranks Korea bottom amongst peer nations in regards to pay equality."

http://thediplomat.com/2014/05/south-koreas-woeful-workplace...
Beaten into submission? Maybe they tried that, but eventually what worked was that they were legislated into submission. They found some technicality for why they couldn't legally occupy that space, and everything went downhill fast after that. (I could be wrong. I wasn't paying much attention at the time.)
to preserve the memory

And to elevate oneself socially based on select signalling of goods and services consumed, places visited and activities performed.

The photos will happily sit on a device, external storage or the printed page for occasional review but let's be honest here: it has less worth unless others see it. It's not the memory-trigger aspect that's so important but the feeling people get from knowing others are admiring what they're doing. The act is mostly for signalling.

Some people forget the era where you typically didn't have a camera everywhere you went, and when you did have a camera you were limited by the amount of film you had. I remember that time and have plenty of vivid memories from it thanks to carrying the best camera I've ever owned: my eyes.

the cost to the experience is minimal

For the people capturing the moment perhaps. In Versailles I was whacked in the head with a selfie stick by a pirouetting halfwit. People fumbling with their phones and selfie sticks aren't considerate of the people around them.
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Why would he? He wanted the whole company and was spurned. What incentive would there be to then reward the founder with 2 commas of personal liquidity?

Zuck's not trying to make small side investments personally that might enrich him but would certainly cause questions of conflict of interest with his CEO role at FB.
Exactly. Also, I don't have a source for this off the top of my head, but from what I've read most of the crisis in loan repayments comes from people who don't graduate. Starting but not graduating may be the most perfidious outcome.

In addition, "college" doesn't make much sense as a category of discussion, because "college" is so many different things. I've been writing as much for years: http://jakeseliger.com/2012/12/15/college-william-deresiewic... and doing so mostly futilely, it seems.
This is so sad. I'm surprised the team were able to rule out human intervention as whale beachings have been linked to military sonar exercises [1].

A human analogy I've read is to imagine if an alien spacecraft descended into our atmosphere and played noises all day so loud that our ears bled. The trauma would be so bad we might not have another choice but to end the suffering.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/03/whales-fl...
Maybe a picture will help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o

Or maybe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zMXJTbIrs

Note that these machines are designed to the best of our present day abilities and that's nowhere near hurricane force winds. In the one case a brake was overrun, in the second the amount of power generated was enough to ignite the alternator.

If storm is indicated for a region then you design your machines to be able to survive the storm, not to generate power during the storm. That's simply a function of how frequently it storms and how much power you can expect to generate extra if you were to design for the storm (hint: not much).

> But the distribution isn't uniform if you look at occurrence of where it happens on earth, some places are more likely to form storm systems vs others.

Yes, but still not frequently enough to design for it other than in 'survival' or 'shutdown' mode. And keep your fingers crossed that that is enough or you'll end up like those two above (or worse...).

If all this really interests you you should check out fieldlines, it's an interesting forum, there is a ton of wind knowledge there, I used to be a pretty active member.

greetings & thanks for the exchange.
Every time a new user discovers your service, that is your launch date. So you'll have a series of them. The more you build "launching" into something big the more expectations you will have around it.

The really hard thing is marketing -- getting people to know and then care about your service. Get the tech stuff out of the way and move onto this. It is hard. The first people who use your service will give you invaluable feedback.

Stick a BETA on it somewhere and go live ASAP.
How to Overcome the Fear of Sharing Bad Ranking Data with Clients
I found reading this oddly therapeutic.
Honestly, who is at all surprised by this?
I'm not a West Hater by any means, but I'd say the war started when the US and the UK engineered a coup in Iran because Iran nationalized their oil industry (after the British oil company running it refused to be audited or to renegotiate terms).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
Really like the idea!

Im trying it out right now and the Android app told me to use an identifier that starts with a '9'. I typed `notify -r <my_identifier>`. When I try running `notify` however, it gives me this:

[notify] Encountered an error: ParseError {
code: 141,
message: 'Error 112: Channel name must start with a letter: <my_identifier>' }
That's because dreaming about a business is easy, planning a business is fun and running a business is a lot of hard work and BS. just post the site and get feedback.
There are lots of businesses where it's really easy for founders to cash out - profitable businesses! I'm not even trying to be one of those HN commenters that bemoans the cashflow negative startup ecosystem (lots of ways to build a business), there are tons of profitable businesses whose founders cash out large amounts of stock regularly.

The category of VC that wants founder secondary and the category of VC that likes loss leading consumer facing businesses are not well aligned.
I tried that, but my keyboard got all sweaty and shorted out.
But preproc flags will. How does this tool deal with that? Just recompiles on every request for a certain config? Why is this better than a repo that has crossplatform-buildable code that is downloaded and compiled locally? Like nuget but cross platform?
Debt is the state of owing money. This is the definition of debt. Kickstarters do not owe anyone money.
Autopilot is cool, but it's not a game changer by any means. The driver still has to be fully engaged. This is not a system where you can turn it on and then read a book or take a nap.

80% of the benefit of Autopilot is the traffic-aware cruise control. That's basically just a radar unit that keeps you from hitting the car in front. Remarkably useful, but not anything like a phase change.

If and when true autonomous technology arrives, that certainly will be a phase change. And Autopilot is a step (a small one) in that direction. But it is not by itself a prticularly big deal.

(Full disclosure: I've driven maybe 1,000 miles with Autopilot, and a few thousand miles with the pre-Autopilot traffic-aware cruise control.)
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Thankfully you're right, Facebook is not—yet—capable of disempowering the entire world by its mere existence. But it does disempower its users, and the more users it gets, the more it disempowers even those who don't use the system thanks to those "network effects" that everyone is after.

It's not inconceivable that at some point some country (perhaps very close to home) might decide that having a Facebook profile is mandatory in order to operate a business. With their Real Name™ policy it might even be useful for registering citizens. You can see this already happening on a smaller scale with some companies requiring Facebook login in order to use their product or service. I see others calling Facebook a "public utility", seemingly unconscious of where that road leads.

Sure, you can say all of that is still "voluntary". You don't need to use that product and you don't need to even be a citizen of the United States. You could move to some part of Africa where Facebook has not yet commandeered the social infrastructure. But, somewhere around that point I think most would agree that the word "voluntary" ceases to have any real meaning.
The idea of looking at npm for any sort of guidance on how to properly do package management is the most insane thing I've heard in recent memory.
Because an educated, critical-thinking society who's members are good at communication is better for everyone. "Just learn to make money" is a great way to stagnate progress. What is the point in all of the advances in productivity, technology, and culture if we just decide that it isn't worth it to actually provide the benefits to everyone, and instead send our young adults off to just learn a trade because "it's too expensive" to expand our higher education system to everyone and create a better world.
I think the benefit of the college network is probably the most overlooked. But while colleges might teach people how to learn and think critically, they don't teach people who aren't affluent how to network.

Career centers might provide optional workshops on networking, but this isn't enough to prepare students for how to integrate socially. It can be a culture shock when people enter a competitive school and realize that learning isn't the primary objective.

Some people question why it should be that people from non-affluent backgrounds should have to adapt to the culture, and it is a source of resentment and likely a catalyst for some vengeful campus politics. It's a valid concern but people should be making efforts to meet in the middle. Efforts by people with the most power, like Ycombinator going out of their way to recruit women and minorities, are an important part of the solution.
Even though those are still more rigid body videos, Thanks for the pointer to the forum!
I've written a fair share of Haskell, and I still get tripped up by list comprehensions in python - even my own. It's not that it's impossible to understand, and when there's only one predicate, I think it's fine:

for row in [[i*j for i in range(1, 8)] for j in some_list if j % 2 == 0]:
some_op(row)

vs

for j in some_list:
if j % 2 == 0:
row = [ i * j for i in range(1,8) ]
some_op(row)

I would compare it to sentences and paragraphs. The former feels like a run-on sentence, while the latter is more obvious, cause it has one predicate per line. Also, list comprehensions are a bit like yoda-speak - it introduces the verb before the subject. You have to untangle the order of operations, rather than having the order read top-down and left-right.

Of course, I'm a rubyist, so I'd prefer:

some_list.select { |j| j % 2 == 0 }
.map { |j| (1..8).map { |i| i * j } }
.map { |row| some_op(row) }

Though definitely need to do something about that second line.

Haskell list comprehensions are a bit easier to parse because they have symbolic delimiters, the fact that Haskell is naturally more terse, and because you can always check the type of the list

[ [i*j | i <-[1..8]] | j <- [1..4], j % 2 == 0 ]
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if you want to discuss the arbitrary importance i would posit i think it important to live in opposition to the conceit 'well, i got mine'

that may be in direct opposition to the wishes of the developer of the work, in this case chappelle, which i would default in respecting, while simultaneously arguing the choice

pauli(o) would agree the experience is unshareable

but the material certainly can be

allowing for more unique experiences to be had

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
Your kids first. Studies have shown time and time again that despite all those "Is it worth it?" talk, having a college degree in anything still equals better earning prospects over a lifetime. Everyone I've talked to who proposed "fewer people should go to college" / "more people should go to trade schools" has at least one kid in or graduated from a 4 year degree program.

So when people say "fewer people should go to college," I hear, "other people's kids should earn less so my kid doesn't."

It's time we took a hard look at how we pay for college and its costs, most assuredly. But it's not time to discourage people from getting an education, especially with all the predictions about automation.
i always enjoy the "x is essentially a <somewhat_obscure_financial_instrument>". I feel like it's moderately common in startup thought leader type posts
That's implying that it hasn't always been like that. The masses are usually looking for things to enjoy themselves with, it's not like a century ago people were more well-informed about what was happened.
NFL's Officiating department, one would hope.
"Language-specific"? It clearly targets two languages: C and C++.
If only there was something like a universal package manager, that provides a generic but powerful package-management platform.

OK, I like where you're going...

Something where package specifications look just like expressions in a purely-functional programming language, and the package manager implicitly understands the complete dependency graph, including all inputs to all build actions.

No, you lost me.

Look, Nix and Guix are really great ideas, I don't debate that, but they are not what people want.

People who design and build tools want them to be interesting, but people who use tools want them to be boring. They want them to be boring because boring things present the least resistance

What people want is exactly the first thing you said. They want a package manager that does the things that npm and bundler and pip+virtualenv and cargo and everything else do, but works for all languages and across all platforms, and also provides the functionality of a system package manager.
Is it for C or C++?
Origin of the name rhymes with fiber optics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikonal_equation

I guess they hire physics majors there...
Yes and no. At short range there are devices like doppler direction finders [1] that are remarkably affordable and can make quick work out of locating some signals. This is for signals that arrive over a straightforward single path, though.

These shortwave transmissions do not have that convenient property. HF transmissions at high powers will duct through at the atmosphere, bounce off of the geography, and in general propagate in all sorts of strange ways that result in them arriving simultaneously via multiple paths to any given position. This means that standard direction finding methods will not be very effective. Because of the long wavelengths of these signals, very large antennas are also required to even attempt direction finding, usually circular structures hundreds to thousands of feet across, a common type being a Wullenweber antenna [2].

Very few organizations possess substantial HF direction-finding capability. The FCC has monitoring stations that can do this in many cases, and they use it for enforcement purposes, I believe primarily when public safety users report jamming problems. As a fun fact, one of these monitoring stations is located in Livermore, although I believe that station is remote-control and has no staff. The FCC is not very public about how these monitoring stations operate, I believe their positioning is based on differential analysis of the reports from all of their 14 stations across the country though. Most of what I know about them is from a rather outdated source [3] although their locations are listed in 47 CFR s. 0.121 since they are afforded special protections against interference.

On the international scale, if you looked at the Wikipedia article on Wullenwebers you may have noted that that was originally a code name. Various militaries and intelligence agencies operate large direction finding stations, but because of the challenges of locating HF signals even these large facilities have limited efficacy. Nonetheless, I assume that the NSA has confirmed transmitter locations for these signals (probably by a combination of direction-finding and good old fashioned on the ground tradecraft) and has simply chosen not to share.

[1] http://kn2c.us/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber
[3] http://blackradios.terryo.org/documents/publications/e-FCC.p...
How to do customer development?
We have an idea and want to start speaking with some customers. Do we do a survey, do we call them? What is the best way to get feedback?
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There are people who willfully, knowingly invest in ponzi schemes, on the premise that they will try to get out before operator flees with the money because up until that point, it has outstanding returns.
I modeled this one day in Excel, using random numbers. In my case, the game was Russian Roulette and the group played it once a year for 20 years. I was very surprised that no matter how many times I refreshed the random results, a large percentage of 'players' were still playing after 20 rounds.

I read this example in a book or article, but I can't remember what that was called.
More about xxhash here, it's by Yann Collet, the author of LZ4:

http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2012/04/selecting-checksu...
What's the font you're using in that gif? It looks good.
> "This is for all the founders who know they have built something that people want, but the rest of the world hasn’t recognized it yet."

So... 100% of the founders.
If you have all the code ( product ) why don't you launch ? what is your biggest fear. you already did a lot of the work
don't be afraid to fail. if you fail you will fail fast and that is good. Don't be afraid of failure embrace it.
I think he's talking about more complex list comprehensions then just the traditional for-loop + map setup. I haven't been in Python land for awhile but I remember some atrocious contraptions of 80+ line comprehensions that could of been infinitely more explicit as a literal for loop.

This is Python after all.
xxHash is at least an order of magnitude faster so it might be worth upgrading.
> But that’s the trouble: Marissa Mayer wasn’t hired to do the safe thing. She was picked to be bold, and so far, she has failed.

While I agree that Mayer's term hasn't been great...I never got the impression that she was hired to do move fast and break things until Yahoo was back in the game with Google...wasn't the hot take that she could be counted not to screw things up as Yahoo's investors struck it big on the Alibaba investment? Was there ever the implication that the board would be cool with it if she decided to go for broke in such a way to spoil the Alibaba windfall?

However things end up for her, I hope we get to hear a little more about their acquisition strategy. Tumblr seemed like a reasonable thing (though sure, Yahoo doesn't seem to have done much to capitalize on it)...but what about all the other acquihires that were ostensibly done to bring in engineering talent? How many of those engineers stuck around to become pioneers within the company? I think shoveling out millions to bring in unique talent is a great idea...but I'm guessing there's a huge difference between giving a suitcase of $30M in cash to bring in someone like Peter Norvig/Jeff Dean/Guido/etc, versus bringing in a 17-year-old entrepreneur [1].

Yahoo did receive a lot of attention for the money it used to bring in media superstars such as Katie Couric and David Pogue...but speaking as someone who has worked in journalism...that's not a viable strategy for turning around a tech company.

I hope one acquisition Yahoo makes is Foursquare/Swarm...I hear so little about 4SQ that I have to wonder if it's on life support (though maybe I'm vastly underestimating how popular it is in NY compared to SF?)...having another location-based social service between Google and Yelp seems as vital as keeping Tumblr around in the fight between the web and Facebook...and location data and engineering seems like it could find an easier fit into whatever Yahoo's tech strategy is (versus, say, buying Path/TaskRabbit/Lyft/Quora/Evernote, etc)

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20130325/yahoo-paid-30-million-in-cash...
No, raising capital will also finance a company and is not debt, you give the people that give you capital a portion of the future revenues and value created in return.
I think Fred George was working on this kind of stuff back in the 70s.
This kind of claim should require more documentation before publication.

Not that I don't believe it's possible, but you'd think pictures would be readily available by now, and a more precise location. I can see holding back right after the discovery, but six months later?

Also would have loved to know when the mass beaching took place. Lots of tectonic activity in that area. Someone else mentioned sonar...would have liked to see if the event could be cross-referenced with military exercises.

Hope this story is further vetted and explored.
Debt isn't necessarily paid in money, depending on the terms of the contract, debt could be paid in cash, labor, gold, corn, oil, hogs, or pretty much any commodity that can have a value set on it.

In this case, Kickstarter funders expect to be paid in product (or whatever perk was promised to them).
gold is deliberately ELF only, LLD supports PE, ELF, Mach-O.
i wish i knew what was so unsettling about the above opinion

i'm interested in discussion
Maybe they found evidence for a red tide related stranding? And/Or they did imaging of the whales ear canals?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetailing_%28computer_scienc...
Then again, 99% of the people telling you what you're building will never work are right.
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Red tide?