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"They both allow you to pass functions as arguments to other functions."

" Is it because Lisp is seen as the birthplace of functional languages (because of point 2)?"

That was my feeling. Some tenuous connection that leads to meaningless comparisons. They have such different styles, cultures, and attributes that direct comparisons don't even make sense. People might technically be able to do something that's unnatural in one in the other easily. And vice versa. Question: would any idiomatic user of either really want to or waste time doing it that way? Probably not...
"On my Linux system cat has a -n option, which numbers the output lines. If it were following the 'UNIX philosophy', this option would not exist."

Gnu's not Unix. "The GNU coreutils version of this on my Linux box behaves this way" is not a good way of getting at finer points of what is or is not Unix-y.

That said, -n exists in BSD cat as well. It's not required by POSIX, though.
What is your recourse if service level is not met? A monthly credit? Your data is probably worth more to you than the value of its hosting. Too many people rest on the laurels of SLA.
Probably not going to be the most popular opinion but...

The article really didn't shown any proof or even suggested anything besides hinting at various SJ issues. The Autism spectrum at this point is so overblown that I'm not sure if it's even correct anymore at some point this looks like it's becoming the new ADHD everyone has it just in a different flavor.

At this point Autism is almost no longer classified as physical neurodevelopmental disorder but with a lovely brand new name pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.
Now don't get me wrong I don't think that low functioning Autism is fake, nor that some actual physical neurodevelopmental syndromes are but the amount of cases that 2 decades ago when psychoanalysis was still in fashion that would be classified as neurosis that are now being classified as autism even tho they do not show any of the physical signs of autism is quite staggering.

I'm not saying that those people are not "sick" I just have very strong suspicion that at the end this whole autism spectrum will blow up. It seems like every week we get a new article about normally functioning adults with various eccentricities that come out and say that they now know why they aren't normal and that's because they are autistic.

Articles like this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/health/why-i-love-knowing-i... just make me question this whole ordeal, 5 hours of diagnosis of a woman in her 40's with a career and a family is enough to deem some one being autistic without any actual developmental tests, brain imaging or even in depth psychoanalysis.

I just don't really understand all these cases when people claim that they don't feel the same way that other people do (there's almost no way to know what other person is feeling, at best empathy will let you know what state they are projecting) or what other people find easy or hard. Not everyone finds socializing easy, not everyone likes to talk about their feelings, not everyone is even capable of building complex emotional attachments and it seems like people go in and out of various states like that throughout their life.
That's very painful to read. Codespaces went pretty much the same way, here is what they wrote:

"Code Spaces will not be able to operate beyond this point, the cost of resolving this issue to date and the expected cost of refunding customers who have been left without the service they paid for will put Code Spaces in an irreversible position both financially and in terms of ongoing credibility. As such at this point in time we have no alternative but to cease trading and concentrate on supporting our affected customers in exporting any remaining data they have left with us."

They promised a follow up once they got to the bottom of what happened but they never did, I'm still curious what the whole story was.
I'm really not sure whether you're pulling some kind of a passive-aggressive "I'm being misquoted so badly that I refuse to even acknowledge it's a quote" routine, someone has edited their message, or you're genuinely not seeing it. At least currently the text after the ">" is a direct quote from the message it was a reply to (i.e. your initial message). It also seems pretty representative. If you disagree with that text 100%, it seems that you perhaps intended to write something else originally.
Administrative bloat is the culprit on the spending end. You'd think that the increased spending would go to hiring professors and improving academic life. But instead, the administrative bureaucracies are sucking up all of the money and wasting it on pet projects and excess labor.

Basically, all of the mismanagement that people associate with government applies to colleges as well. They have guaranteed revenue, so they have no incentive to control costs. Project planning and approval are more about politics than about cost and value. Leadership is weak and more interested in covering their own asses than in making the right decisions. There's constant mission creep, with colleges strangely obsessed with running all aspects of students' lives. Adding new spending is easy, but eliminating existing programs is near-impossible. The workers are unionized, and are often able to recruit naive students to their protests against any cost-control measures.

At my college, there was an administrative department for every kind of minority, each with its own budget and staff. What goes in inside of these departments is its own scandal. Some were far-left outfits that spread the toxic identity politics that's been in the news lately. That's not the kind of instruction that parents think they're paying for.

The government needs to stop its irresponsible loan and grant programs. Colleges need to refocus on academics and basic services for students. The only way they will do that is if they are forced to justify their costs on the market.
> I'm still waiting for a dramatic disruption of the college/post-secondary industry. [..] I'm starting to feel that some courses in college/university isn't worth that much money.

It's still coming. As college grads increase in supply their value decreases (top-tier colleges/students aside). More and more students are realizing their college education has a negative ROI... in fact, outside of software, most of my friends are not using their degree at their job.

I think the "code-school" trend is the start of a "micro-degree" program. Self-service fluff-free education with a standard certification exam is pretty compelling. As we see that proliferate to other domains, we'll start to see micro-certifications (just the test). The missing component seems to be the in-person meetings and networking that comes with physical college. I predict we'll see more online school(s) supporting a physical meeting space for students to network and learn from each other... maybe even a new campus model that strips out the cruft of traditional centralized education institutions.
Do you keep your money in a shoe box under your bed or stuffed in your mattress? I'd hope no, but then that begs the question "where do you keep it?" I'd assume not in a bank because any bank can fail at any moment and they are only insured by an instutition as flaky at the United States Treasury department. Governments collapse all the time just ask the Soviet Union. Right?

The failure probabilities are relative. And everyone here is equivocating. As if the likelihood of failure is evenly dispersed. You indicate that storing customer data in the cloud is "playing fast and loose" but I'd argue the opposite. Not having a cloud backup is what is "fast and loose"

Imagine you are an independent bank. You need to move your customers deposits. Do you load sacks of cash into your corporate minivan or hire an armored car service? Well lets look closer. With the latter you are giving up control, right? You have no control over the quality measures an armored car service might take. Yet somehow not contracting them seems like foolishness. The reason is obvious. Its because you know in this case that transporting money isn't your expertise. Its not something you can focus adequate time and resources on perfecting. You also can't spread the risk of failure across a lot of customers, absorb that failure, and make your service better for the next go. The exact same logic applies to long term storage of data. If that isn't your only function its extremely hard to get it right.
Sam Harris is pretty sophomoric and smug. It's hard not to have contempt towards him, even if one is an atheist.
I am unfortunately distracted by the large number of significant digits. House 1 burned 2.785kg @ 0.038150685 kg/min, which implies a precision of micrograms per minute,

Using decimal math, that works out to exactly 72.99999986894075427479218263 minutes. Realistically, it's 73 minutes. There are only 2 significant digits so the reported rate should be 0.038 kg/minutes.

Also, there's is a factor of 3 variation in wood/meal unit, compared to 25% improvement in switching stoves. Why aren't all of the houses using the efficient cooking technique of house 3? For that matter, how reproducible are the numbers for each house?

Finally, I see that house 2 had no gains, using about the same wood/meal unit with all three stoves. Does this mean that about 1/3rd of the users of the stove will see no gain to switching? Or does it mean that there isn't enough data to draw a good statistical conclusion? What are the odds of seeing these results purely from random chance?
Nice. I was aware that you could weaken independence, but not bounded variance. Without bounded variance, I thought you would get something like Student's t.
For me, doing math or programming actually takes far less energy than socializing with new people. I wonder what the mechanism is here. Btw, i'm not autistic.
I think the real problem in education is that credentials have become prized over learning.
It doesn't share the exact same properties, but you can make the comparison with any given copy. So yes the analogy holds.
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This is a pretty click-baity article that actually is more like 3 questions:

1. Is it a fair/just company? (Will I get promotions and raises for working hard?)

2. Is it safe? (Will I get fired for trying and failing at a task?)

3. Is it a place that provides autonomy? (Can I shape my own destiny here? Will I have influence?)
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> ... on vastly more secure servers with every connection under SSL/TLS for end-to-end encryption.

I wish people would stop using the term "end-to-end encryption" to simply mean using encrypted channels. It really does confuse people who have heard that end-to-end is great, but don't actually understand/appreciate the differences between the two.
Except the people effected are not the people making the choices. No child today voted for a reduction in education budgets. Given how much the volatility of job market causes people to move many people don't have much of a choice when choosing which state to live. Disadvantaging people because their parents happen to work in South Carolina and members of their parents generation decided to cut funding is the exact opposite of "reaping what you sow". An out dated view for a system designed before instant access communication.
But it is much harder to get other forms of unsecured debt. An 18 year old with no job and no credit history is going to have a hard time getting a credit card with a $5k limit let alone a $100k loan. The lack of being able to discharge the loan in bankruptcy needs to go hand in hand with the guaranteed availability of the loan. Instead of changing one of those things, we are are better off coming up with a new system like no upfront tuition and income based repayment plans.
The tech experts are telling her that you can't break encryption without ruining it for everyone. She is turning around and basically saying they aren't trying hard enough.

It's possible that quantum computing will offer a temporary way around this, but unless governments ban the sale of quantum computing, it's only a matter of time until quantum computing allows criminals the same ability. Also consider that if the government can use quantum computing to break encryption, what's to stop other governments like China from doing the same thing?
The parent comment fails to rings true to me in the case of the three European countries I have experience with, the UK, France, and Portugal. All three are in many ways even more obsessed with class-based academic hierarchies. For instance, students of Portugal's oldest university (Universidade de Lisboa) regularly wear 18th century style robes and were almost universally considered to be snobby rich kids by the Portuguese people I talked to about it. Oxbridge and the ancient English public schools that feed into it (Eton, Harrow, etc) are even more pedigree-obsessed than their US equivalents. And by all first-hand accounts I've heard, the French Écoles des Hautes Études tend to be filled with urban elites bound for government posts.

Maybe Germany or Scandinavian countries are different but I think that being obsessed with academic prestige is pretty universal in the developed world, it's just that US universities like Harvard or Stanford have emerged as focal points for this global obsession.
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I really hope this is tongue-in-cheek humour..?
While I prefer Django to Rails, I'm glad to see both teams taking support for real-time applications seriously.

Some will note that Node has had real-time for years, but with all due respect to the Node ecosystem, nothing in it (edit: I'm referring to server-side frameworks; I love Ember-CLI) is as nice for developer happiness and productivity as Django and Rails. The best practices that have taken years to be baked into these frameworks make it more difficult to bring in new functionality, but I feel more confident that when new features are implemented, they will be done right.
I don't remember seeing kernel32.dll or system32.dll or a lot of others in any software distribution (outside windows itself).
This was the article that convinced me to try: http://www.27months.com/2013/10/its-always-sunny-in-iceland-...

I read both that one and the one posted here like an hour before this one got posted on HN and they have convinced me to give running my own server a try.

In the meantime, I have just downloaded a backup of all of my data from Twitter and Facebook (Facebook's archive was like 15x as big as the Twitter's archive even though I'm using Twitter way more) that I am going to save on my server, I have switched to POP instead of IMAP on my current email service and I am testing out ownCloud in a Docker container.
unzip intentionally prevents such from happening. So while you could make a .zip file that intends to do that, you need an unzipping tool that would actually allow it.
>>Civility is overrated. <<

Its always interesting to learn something new from the "tolerance" brigade.
I keep my money spread out across multiple accounts with multiple banks up to the insured limit. Because yes, banks can fail.

> You indicate that storing customer data in the cloud is "playing fast and loose" but I'd argue the opposite. Not having a cloud backup is what is "fast and loose"

Basic reading comprehension failure, that is not what GP is arguing.

He's arguing that if your live data lives in the cloud your backup copy should not be in the cloud and vice versa.
This is one part of a much larger trend of dismantling all niceness in American life. EVERYONE now works much harder than they used to: workers work more than 10 hours a day with similar or lesser benefits, college students work much harder to get the same jobs, where we had one breadwinner supporting an entire family we now have two struggling to support families. Even kindergarten kids work harder than they ever have in history.

It does not take a genius to figure out that this is not a sustainable system. All benefits of the lower classes working really hard will keep accumulating to the top until society collapses on itself. Or maybe not; we could return to a stable feudalism.

In any case, the solution to this obviously is that kids should not have preschool, but their parents (particularly the mom) should stay home with the kids and play. That interaction with parents teaches kids far more than a lowly paid preschool teacher will. That's how it was done for centuries. That's what works.
> Amazon's S3 offers service level agreements with failure rates that at one point implied the statistical likelihood of losing an object to be once in "thousands of years".

Where things like that in 2009 when this article was written?
Once again. I only entertain statistical arguments. This anecdotal nonsense is for the birds. Any given service can fail at any time. This is known kaleesi. You can poop out case after case of some shit wiki platform losing your bird watching posts and it won't make a lick of difference. You need to show me that its better with the magic of statistics. Should be easy peasy show me that you have lost less data(proportionally) than amazon over your entire career.

I can make this even easier. Its almost certainly going to boil down to this question. Have you ever lost even a single byte of data? Cause if you have, you aren't even in the same ballpark.
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Not really misunderstood but misdiagnosed as the symptoms are often quite different including the major symptom - acute chest pain which almost 2/3rd of women who have went through a cardiac event do not experience, that percentage is even higher in women that went through vaginal labor.

It seems that the best tool doctors have is where does it hurt > my chest > heart attack.
Women just do not seem to have the same pain sensation not in scale nor location as men when it comes to heart attacks which it makes it very hard to diagnose. Most female heart attack cases do not get reported simply because allot of them do not feel any significant pain and those that do often feel it in other parts of their body.
Add to that the fact that allot of heart attack likelihood increases with age which coincides with menopause which on it's own introduces lightheadedness, shortness of breath, sharp pains and other similar symptoms to cardiac distress and you get a diagnostic nightmare.

There are other conditions which are more rarely go under diagnosed in men such as bladder cancer, breast cancer (cancer on it's own is more prevalent in men and women often are diagnosed earlier, and have much higher survival rates some times upwards of 50% difference), eating disorders and many various other things.
Chomsky has never been a part of the "tolerance brigade," his left-libertarian syndicalist views notwithstanding. In fact, he has always been brutally critical of postmodernism.
Unless it is true. The previous time someone made a 'very pretentious comment' it ended in a quite surprising way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
If it's okay, I think we should set the non-vertabrates aside for the discussion since their optical systems are so different.

As to the safety of UV-A, I don't think you're correct. A common element of all the comparative species selected is that their life span in the wild is far shorter than our own, and there isn't going to be selection pressure happening before they would accumulate UV damage. UV damage to the eye is kind of like yellowing of plastics, it accumulates over time. As is pointed out in your first linked article, aphakia patients are advised to wear blue-blocking glasses to protect their vision. My first thought as to how bad could it be was retinoblastoma—I am not aware of any studies looking at the incidence rate of Rb in aphakia patients and PubMed doesn't show anything either, but I don't think it's an unreasonable thought.

Aside from the ionization problem, UV light also has a much higher propensity towards scatter. Floaters are bad enough for some in visible light! Of course, we're talking futuristic gene augmentation, so it's not unreasonable to suggest we'd vacuum the eyes out every now and then, so maybe floaters will not be a problem :) We still have a problem with the much higher dispersion of UV light relative to visible, given the materials we have to work with in the eye; that, plus scatter, means we're probably going to have very fuzzy UV vision. Replace the whole lens system and maybe you get better UV-vis vision, but we still haven't overcome the safety problem. Maybe instead of vacuuming out the eyes, we just swap them out for a new autologous gene-tweaked set every couple years.

NIR would seem to be more realistic than UV (certainly considering safety), but here, the quantum efficiency of the pigments would seem to be a limiting factor. As you point out, we can already actually see a little into NIR (IIRC, in scotopic with something like 10-6 QE at 750nm relative to 555nm). At first glance, the chemical structure of human receptor pigments doesn't look to be super favorable for modification to getting something that would have a good absorption cross-section in NIR. Compare the structure of vitamin A or retinal with a strongly NIR-active chromophore, there's a lot of steps bridging the two and the structure as a whole is hostile towards selective modifications, not to speak of the rings where the modifications need to happen.

As to thermal IR, I think we'd need a metamaterial for something that would work in vis and in LWIR, and that's a handwavey statement on my part. It would definitely be of interest to the military!

Overall, I think it's more plausible to augment our vision by wiring a camera directly into our visual cortex. Biology is too hard.
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Good discriminators, and a more interesting way to vetting is to look at these questions, the answers from the company will all be positive, and then validate their answers against historical performance. Differences between answers and execution reveal how they are managed.

Put another way, if your company espouses values that it doesn't actually value in practice, then you probably want to find a different place to work :-)
The barrier to entry to almost nothing so the "industry" is extremely saturated and full of "work from home" and "passive income" pipe dreams. It's still a ton of work and research to start making any sort of consistent monthly income and it's not passive at all. You'll be constantly tweaking, testing, switching ads...creating new websites and content, etc. Warrior Forum and Wicked Fire are the main places to get a feel for what people are doing. You'll also get a feel for the other people in that space - they just have a scammy, creepy feel.
Encrypting data on a VPS, for example using LUKS encrypted volumes, does not provide any meaningful security if the host can take a memory dump of the running machine.
And has the Ph.D. become the new Master's?
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He acknowledges and supports that. He's not saying "don't use facebook" but "facebook is fun but temporary, like a party. Don't leave stuff there."
My guess is that it wasn't laziness on the doctor's part, but he/she looked at your symptoms and diagnosed it as most likely psychosomatic based on the evidence you presented. Was there another cause of the gastroparesis in your case? I've experienced gastroparesis myself due to stress, and I would imagine that is the most common cause.
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I always thought he was in on the joke, even funnier that he wasn't.
You need to make sure you have the following software installed on your computer:

- Python 2.7 (not Python 3.x)

I've read some of your remarks about Python 3, but it seemed like you were (at least begrudgingly) accepting the shift to Python 3. So why no forwards compatibility here? Any plans to support Python 3 in the future?