skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a set of tools and frameworks that make it convenient to use the Gambit Scheme compiler to develop apps for several platforms.

There are a variety of reasons that someone might choose it over Clojure or ClojureScript:

- they like Scheme better than Clojure

- they like the frameworks in LambdaNative better than the libraries available for Clojure

- they like the toolchain used with LambdaNative better than the toolchain around Clojure (both toolchains are kind of baroque compared to, say, Lispworks or ClozureCL)

- they want to build for a platform (such as iOS) where Gambit provides a convenient solution and Clojure doesn't

- they want to deliver apps to more platforms than Clojure currently supports

- they want to deliver compiled binaries that don't need a JVM or javascript VM to run
I'm not sure I actually agree with your sentiment here. The way I see it, having a bunch of small articles is both more useful for people who want to find specific information, as well as relatively easy to maintain. (though organizing it might be harder, that much could be true) For example, since everyone seems to want to talk about a character named Karen, if I were a casual user (I am) that just wants to find out who this Karen character is, I would find it so much easier to find a "Karen (Pokemon)" page on Wikipedia than finding a huge article about characters and needing to go through and find the specific one I want to know about. It would even be easier to edit, as then I could go find that specific page, and deal with the (relatively) small amount of text/code instead of fighting through many paragraphs for a single small edit. I feel like it's a similar principle to code, where you want to deal with smaller code files rather than a single, ten thousand line file.

Of course, that's just my opinion, take it for what it is :)
I'm not sure what this means?

Even early adopters are "consumers". Just a different customer segment. One that places more value on the excitement of a new technology than comfort and cost.
Vow, I did not know that. I had tested with beta ios runtimes, then it was not possible.

So now you connect the iOS device, change code in slime, recompile and you can see live updates on the device. Is that what you mean by using slime to develop mobile apps using LW mobile?

During the beta days, one would generate a static lib, that would then get copied to Xcode project. I would assume all this is taken care of now automatically with incremental development possible.

Can you point to any documentation for Lispworks mobile with these details? Sorry I could not find any on their website.
Some observations from looking through these:

* Huge amounts of various fictional universe lore, similar to the article

* quite a few bands

* some percentage of articles exists again, with better content
> It's basically a completely safe method and does not open up for anyone else to connect ...

Yes, "only allows connections to a small number of peers". However, depending on how the IDs in the P2P overlay connection are chosen, an attacker may be able to select an ID that causes their node to be one of the nodes that your device contacts. Also, in the case where a remote login or remote execution vulnerability exists, the entire P2P network can be rapidly compromised, even though each node only punches holes in firewalls to a small number of other nodes.
A 30% increase is hardly "Matrix-like". It's neat, but don't you fuckers try this at home (you can) and shouldn't because you'll invent a new condition like permanent laughing or blindness when looking at cats. Anything could happen this is clearly well into "Who knows" territory.
Rabbit, flu shot, someone talk to me!
Most countries hold their elections on weekends to avoid that problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_day).
I pretty much only had a handful of friends before I moved 2000+ miles away, but honestly, the one and only one that I still talk to was the only one that was really my friend. The rest were more close acquaintances, past roommates, etc.

Some are still on the 'real' friend list, but have lives that kept us from hanging out, even when there wasn't distance. Business, etc.

After moving my wife and I have picked up some couple 'friends,' but they are more playdate type (kids near same age), and party type acquaintances. I don't meet up with either of them individually (and they are socialites, so are always doing stuff with groups of people, I don't know that they have any friends that they just hang out together with, other than in a group).

My closest friend still hangs out with us once a year. We chat and email weekly if not daily, and we both fly to each other's cities to visit, or we meet somewhere and hang out, vacation-like.
It seems like the Vive should be able to play all the oculus launch games from a technical standpoint, but not vice versa because every Vive game really takes advantage of the finely tracked hand controllers and ability to wander through a room.

Being able to intuitively grab and throw things in games like Job Simulator and budget cuts was a really eye opening and amazingly fun experience.
Someone should tell those bright engineers that hover doesn't work on mobile.
At least the Pokemon I tried have redirects set up, jumping to the appropriate part of the longer page. What I'd like to see if they consistently linked to more specific, outside wikis for further information (maybe that's common already, don't have an overview)
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I still prefer email as my communication tool of choice. Sure it may take some self discipline to ignore it and treat it as asynchronous when you need to be doing something else, but at least there's a lot less pressure to respond that there is in chat apps where instant reply is more likely to be expected and the person on the other side can often see that you're there.
Depending on how frequent or for how long, that would also be illegal. See http://www.dailytech.com/Federal+Court+Cops+Cant+Spy+on+Your...
Or the ruling itself: https://www.eff.org/files/2014/12/15/vargas_order.pdf

From the ruling:
"The Court rules that the Constitution permits law enforcement officers to remotely and continuously view and record an individual’s front yard (and the activities and people thereon) through the use of a hidden video camera concealed off of the individual’s property but only upon obtaining a search warrant from a judge based on a showing of probable cause to believe criminal activity was occurring. The American people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the activities occurring in and around the front yard of their homes particularly where the home is located in a very rural, isolated setting. This reasonable expectation of privacy prohibits the warrantless, continuous, and covert recording of Mr. Vargas’ front yard for six weeks."
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Why have all that when you could instead indulge in the 80s Clapper:

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

Clip clap!
What are these fine-tuning and background daemon tricks? I have yet to see gradle run as fast as ant period.
Yes, for something that was trying to archive "the sum of all human knowledge", I always felt Wikipedia was rather selective about what it'd allow. WP has always been firmly an establishment outlet, only allowing things if they received a substantial number of citations in the mainstream press (and big outlets too, not local outlets).

I personally think there is a way to do a much better Wikipedia. One day I might try it.
I think you are right that critical HN comments tend to follow that format, however I fail to see why treating others with civility is a bad thing.
A few highlights: Black engineer in Silicon Valley. In 1970. Demolition Derby released months after Pong. Fairchild Channel F console had programmable cartidges and real game AI. Want to know more.
Note that they've said "soon" for a while, so don't hold your breath on this!
Perhaps lisps do not benefit from progression in libraries; creation of new resources; and don't need to change often enough to warrant new documentation.

What does it mean when a language becomes less and less useful without its specification being progressively changed, with the commensurate documentation changes? What does it mean that a language has tons of questions on Stack Overflow?

It would seem that an ideal language is one whose specification is static so that old and new resources, libraries, and documentation remain perpetually useful. However, such a specificationally-static language can only be itself perpetually useful if it is properly flexible to the needs of the programmer. I hear that at least some Lisps are quite flexible, though I unfortunately don't have a good way to fathom/define what constitutes flexibility.
wait until you have a baby that finally fell asleep at 3am and some drunk asshole starts banging around in the street, finally staggered out of a bar.

young parents care more about this than old farts.
"Evil" is a ridiculous word to use in the first place; but for what it's worth, in my opinion, a platitude like "[ads are] not perfect, nor evil," glosses over the fact that ads often are vectors for attacks that rely on deception, ignorance, and unwitting surveillance, which definitely has an ugly moral flavor. The business model may not be inherently evil (what is?), but it sure seems to be a convenient technology for deliberate abuse via fraud and malware.
I think government agents certainly are permitted the same: it's called "shadowing". I know, reasonable suspicion and all that, but within the confines of a parent-child relationship, it is the parent that holds all the power, including the ability to define what "reasonable suspicion" means, and to act on that definition alone.

So no, I still don't see the fundamental difference between a parent claiming "I reserve the blanket right to monitor my childrens movements" and a government claiming the same on its citizens.

(edit: not saying they're equal, there certainly are differences in scale and execution -- but the fundamental policy is still one of distrust and subversion)
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I think the FOV limitations are a result of decisions made based on current tech capabilities. While I'm sure they could've made something with much wider FOV (and I believe earlier prototypes had this) it would mean being tethered to a more powerful computer or a bulkier/more expensive headset.

When faced with this, it looks like they went with limited FOV in order to keep it standalone and relatively ergonomic. I think this makes sense because processing power and software will continue to improve and allow wider FOV with equally good performance. They just chose to keep the ergonomics and lower the FOV in these early units to keep performance good. With better chips and software, wider FOV will be akin to raising the resolution on a game when you get a new video card.
I don't need to record your property to see who arrives to and leaves from your home.

Having that ability is also convenient, even if you can't use the evidence in a court of law. It could lead to obtaining evidence that can be procured in legitimate ways.
As far as I know, Big Corp can't sue governments retroactively. Good luck passing new laws, though.
I'd assume that if @coalescence works somewhere with a Vive devkit, they would most likely have tried a CV1 as comparison.
I am losing my enthusiasm for IoT because of concerns over how strong the security and privacy will be. It is not just concern over governments' desire to backdoor and monitor: I think there are valid concerns that organized crime will also exploit weak security in IoT devices.
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>Everybody has food

USDA says that 14% of all households in the united states suffer from food insecurity.[1]

>no real injustices in western countries

institutional racism, police killings, homelessness, drug addiction, political oligarchy, rapidly rising secondary education costs, etc.

These problems dont vanish because someone else has it worse, that's a well known fallacy called the fallacy of relative privation[2]

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/foo...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_...
Nice try, Google, but most of us are not willing to relocate to the overpriced and not very family-friendly areas where your offices are.
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London is 5100/sqkm, with 7.125 billion people, you'd need 1,397,059 sqkm, or 539,407 sq. miles.

Texas is 268,820 sq. miles. You'd need higher density than Manhattan to fit all these people and have any hope of growth.

Supplying such a monster would be a logistical miracle (or nightmare, depending on your perspective). Water alone would be extremely challenging - where are you going to get a steady supply and where can you store it?
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Question borne of ignorance: Have any of these vendors opened themselves up for any legal liability for these shenanigans?

Also, if some small developer wrote a mobile app to control such devices, would they also see themselves liable?
That sounds nice.

Haters gonna hate, I've heard. But maybe one or two haters had second thoughts while adding insincere hedges and qualifications, and decided not to post their bilge after all? Or decided to read the original posting before commenting?

I'm going to hope so. The thought will make me read a hundred hedges and qualifications with a smile.
So?

All the comments here read like those aren't humans, allowed to participate in society just like anyone else.

And if they have more voting discipline and get what they care about, well, whose fault is that?

Everyone will be old one day, then those bad, bad things will suddenly be awesome again.

Guess you need to move into middle age to understand both side better.
I take issue with Brandolini's maxim: "The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

This assumes that we know, a priori, what is bullshit and what is not. Sometimes bullshitters know they are bullshitting, but most often they do not.

What I think is really going on here is that the scientific method is crap for this sort of thing, there is no such thing as "empirical truth" that exists in the real world, and subjective debate, reasoning, and so on, is hard and requires enormous effort on all parts.

Let's consider another hypothetical work of bullshit by one Maleficent. I, an oblivious third party, come across her published work. How am I to know that this work is bullshit?

The traditional response is that we use the scientific method, verifiability and empiricism, to test the bounds of a proposed model against observation. "You said Planet X should be at y, but it is actually at z, therefore bullshit." To quote Laurence Laurentz: 'Would that it were so simple.'

The problem here is that observation is fraught, and is usually based on its own assumptions. For example, let's say Maleficent is studying treatments for depression; to do so she must observe whether an individual is "depressed" or "not depressed". How the fuck should she do this? Frequently people use questionnaire measures like the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Is this a valid tool? I have been heavily depressed when I scored low on the BDI, so I would say not. But what IS a valid tool? Is there any objective criterion we can bring to bear, here? What is it? Does "depression" even exist as a thing?

This problem, that observations are themselves laden with assumptions and based on pre-existing models, is a mire that all science is forced to wade through. Before we make decisions about anything, we must have a lens with which to view the world - but that, itself, is a decision!

More broadly speaking this is a problem with deductive reasoning, and because empiricism claims to be based on deductive reasoning it falls into error as a result. Because it is impossible to begin with truth, any scientific observation must be riddled through with approximations. And usually, we are unaware of the approximations that are blinding us when we build flawed models on top of them.

This is the main reason we get bullshit: there is no good way to do science.
From my vantage point in the US, it does seem like a significant number of young people do want change. I'm basing this on the contrast between Bernie Sanders supporters, largely young people, and Hillary Clinton supporters, who have a lot less young people than Bernie supporters. As for what change young people want today, I'd say it's what Bernie is campaigning for, which does include health care but also free college for all, among other things that primarily concern young people.
Before growing our life time, we should improve our education for a better birth-control: what would happen if we start to live for hundred of years and that new humans keeps arriving?
Yeah that's a bullshit claim right there. IBM might be one of the only companies in the world with O(200K) engineers, and I sincerely hope parent comment doesn't think IBM does CRUD.
Bus lanes are pretty well marked where I live. It's especially evident when the street is marked as 'one way', but there's clearly a single lane marked otherwise:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4437917,-79.9556978,3a,79.6y...

On the parkway, I've seen people use the exit specifically designated for buses that leads to a busway. I've seen two pull in as I went by once! If they charged $300 each time (and posted it), that would stop pretty fast. They are usually pretty nice cars, so I imagine that those are douche bag executives that don't give a damn.
I have always been nervous about clicking on links to sites that say 'we were hacked, but we're safe now.' When that link also includes the hubristic 'and we'll never be hacked again,' which paints a target on you big enough for the entire darknet to see... I'm sorry but I'm not clicking on that link.
SteamVR uses OpenVR, which is a public API anyone can implement, I believe.

I'm hoping OSVR is successful from Razer.
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Anyone know how well this works on lower-tier video cards? I have an Nvidia 950 and I'm tempted to buy the Vive. The problem is that the suggested specs are a 970 minimum, which easily has 30% more performance than my 950.
It's really farcical. Nobody with the tiniest bit of common sense would take seriously any promise of privacy from a foreign government, especially the one which established the most far-ranging data collection ever. Not that you should be naive enough to think that the various EU intelligence apparatuses don't do exactly the same thing but with less money.
So meta...

Notice how a couple Voldermorts have gone through the comments and down-voted anyone who questioned catastrophic global warming predictions. As Voldermorts are wont to do.
oh c'mon :)
MFA vs. CIA
Generics (templates work differently), HKTs (not in Rust yet, but something a long-term tool would need to be aware of), general ADT stuff (sum and product types - emulatable with generics and polymorphism).
Reminds me of a recent comment that "German factories run on tits": https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/46ti4d/e...
The inevitability at this time seems to be that the desired function of large, successful systems will evolve over time. This is the root cause of larger system rewrites being so common and (at this time) largely inevitable. But that is also the appeal of strong subsystems that last and can evolve. Language runtimes, libraries, infrastructure components like databases. The can largely persist, but their suitability to various systems will shift as the system themselves change. One must consider that many approaches, even if better for the long-run would have near term costs in terms of additional effort, or training, operational support or even hardware needs.

> That's so wasteful that it seems irresponsible to let personal preference or emotional investment influence foundational decisions that might later prove wrong, requiring a rewrite

Not so, since it is likely the case that the requirements and system's function will change, the primary objective is the efficient production of first working version. Personal productivity, satisfaction and good team dynamics probably trump most technical consideration beyond broad strokes (writing for web in assembly is probably a bad idea, but django vs. rails vs. go microservies is probably moot).

Furthermore, one must consider the corollary to the initial presumption: most new projects either aren't successful or aren't long lived. So while if you have strong evidence that a system will be successful and long lived further investment in technical deliberation in making the choice of platform, toolset and architecture would be warranted - it is much more likely no such evidence exists. And therefore the initial investment is the only one likely to be made, so longer term confederations matter not (again beyond some basics and near universal best practices).
I've done this previously, and it works, but it creates a very messy history where you have merges going back and forth. We typically had several merges to get changes in from master for each feature branch, even if they only lasted for a few days (inside a sprint). Then there's the final merge back to master. If you look at the repo from afar after a couple of features and weeks, it gets very hard to read.
Why does this stuff have to be networked though? My outside lights turn off and on each day with a timer switch that installed much like the networked switches today. I input the date and my zip code and now the timer adjusts for the sunset/sunrise throughout the year. It will even randomize the timing +/- 30 minutes so it's not quite as obvious to any observers. I've had this setup for almost 11 years now and it cost me ~$30.

Programmable thermostats have been a thing for about 20 years now. There is no need to have these things networked for only a slight gain in convenience. I'm pretty certain I can turn my thermostat down for vacations in less time than it would take to launch an app and do it.
I've got two setup to encode audio from a scanner for liveatc.net feeds (KCPS Tower and KSTL Approach). The one for KCPS Tower also provides ADS-B data for flightaware (https://flightaware.com/adsb/)
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The problem there is that seconds are relative to movement. If you are traveling faster than earth, your clock is going to lose sync.
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> The real issues to those living in the first-world, are and should be those which affect their everyday lives and the societies that will determine their future.

They can't change that. They had no writing. History of Africa begins with XIVth century.

Our culture comes from the Greeks, Roman Empire and India. Even in the Middle Ages, the western technology was superior.
Yes, we agree that living processes are special, but part of what makes them so special is because we believe them to be unique and rare. My whole point was, what if we discover, at some point in the future, that life in the universe is not rare, but rather an inevitable process of geology, like the stalactite you're describing? (that was a great analogy, btw.)

We will still think of species' as unique (identical biochemistry is exceedingly unlikely), yet life will become somewhat "commodified" in a sense, if you understand that comparison. Obviously, I took some liberty in describing a nightmarish "moral crisis" scenario; I am just surprised that my comment garnered so many responses, all of them misunderstanding my main argument in one way or another.
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