skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite is the one where she wants enough online presence for people to just give her money. Gives a whole new dimension to the last paragraph of her letter where she mentions her paypal and literally asks for money.
If you're not first, you're last.
True, looks like someone is living in a Clojure buble.

- Clojure user :)
Gosh that just sounds like a very sad interview
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11171928 and marked it off-topic.
Here's how you do a proper smell test - http://bfy.tw/4SY1

It's pretty obvious that there is a revenue stream that disappears when choosing open access over a paid viewing model.. To cover that - when an author publishes a paper and wants to use the open access model, they pay the journal. The costs come from administering peer review.

The true cost of publication is unknown - "Diane Sullenberger, executive editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC, says that the journal would need to charge about $3,700 per paper to cover costs if it went open-access. But Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature, estimates his journal's internal costs at £20,000–30,000 ($30,000–40,000) per paper. Many publishers say they cannot estimate what their per-paper costs are because article publishing is entangled with other activities" - also from [0].

[0] - http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie...

side note: I fully support open access, but using current publication system and open access would either push some costs on the scientists writing the papers which would be covered by taxpayers in the case of gov-funded research.
I find it very interesting that Scheme beat out extremely fashionable languages like Rust and Go, not to mention Clojure didn't even make the first 50. I would expect Lisp and Prolog at the tail end of any such list.
DrScump, by "entirely virtual", i mean you can ask for any kind of digital information - it may be lots of pictures, videos, 360 video, feedback about landlord from previous tenants, amenties etc till the point it becomes redundant for you to visit that place for booking it.

Also, some other things we are thinking about it like no lease policy - enabling you to move on whenever you want to.
When the resource being abused by sci-hub (a university's ezproxy server, via a hacked or shared user account) is shut down by publisher locking out a whole university because an account downloaded 10000 papers over a week-end, there is a real loss. It is not a theoretical moral quandary.

Obviously, the loss is kind of abstract for the publisher but it isn't for the small college that spends half or more of its annual acquisition budget on journal subscriptions and is then locked out of what it spent tens or hundreds of thousands on (depending strictly on which publisher locked them out until they can demonstrate that abuse as been shut down.)

Sure, if you're Hardvard or Stanford library, you can play hardball with the publisher and get your access restored immediately but if you're a small institution, someone's week in the library just got ruined to satisfy the platform owner that abuse has been shut down... For now. It really hurts the small institutions who can least afford it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Has no relevance to actual language quality, potential or value.

If this wasn't the case, then no language would ever pass, or fall behind, another language in popularity.

Popularity is a reflection of already-realized value. That's all.
"At the same time as I was developing those thoughts, I met a guy who works at Tesla, who at the time was living in his Subaru Forester," he says. "He'd been doing it for a year."

Not great job recruitment material for Tesla.
In Flow, `var a: string = null` would not typecheck. In Typescript it would.
This strikes me as a great opportunity to use the "think of the children" argument against the government. Headlines should read like this:

"FBI wants ability to steal dick pics from any iPhone, including children's phones!"
The social revolution
> Real talk. Did you have daddy issues growing up?

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do this.
The natural response to that is civil disobedience without actually getting caught. As a first approximation a single person operating alone could probably do around a billion dollars worth of damage without directly inflicting physical harm on anyone. Get a few thousand people to do the same and individually there going to be less effective, but things break down. Keep pushing and government becomes meaningless.

However, people are generally fat and happy. A surveillance state in wall-e's world just does not mean the same thing without the downtrodden masses which have fueled past revolutions.
That'd be because getting past Storming and through Norming actually requires leadership.

The other two are good with hands-off approaches. Heck, Performing can even take a certain amount of ineptness in leadership without falling apart.
My data point on this is Aldrich Ames who living way beyond his means for a full decade. All the CIA did was send to agents around to tell him to 'cool it'

What this says to me is that people at his level in the CIA and NSA, etc at the time and probably still are trading classified information to friendly governments and large corporate clients. What the CIA didn't expect was that Ames was so utterly stupid as to be selling information to the Soviets instead of say the French Government, or the someone at a hedge fund, or a VP of sales at Boeing.
I'll quote further then..

people may speak over one another, go on tangents and socialize instead of remaining focused on the agenda. The team may seem inefficient to a casual observer. But all the team members speak as much as they need to. They are sensitive to one another’s moods and share personal stories and emotions.

Overwhelmingly the key point of the article is "In the best teams, members listen to one another and show sensitivity to feelings and needs." It focuses heavily on emotional and psychological needs, not "clear authority" or "clearly defined, proven effective and specialized roles," which is what the comment was trying to hijack this to emphasize (that stuff is nowhere in the article).

It's true the previous comment did include a line on "candid and constant communication," but that is quite overbroad and omits the key distinction of the nature of that communication. The key point of the article is that it is of a tangential and/or personal nature, not just candid operational feedback. This is why I think it's fair to criticize the comment as missing the whole point of the article.
I really liked your point and the Wikipedia link. Group harmony is the essence of the piece. Wa succinctly captures the point.
For a long time Opera was one of the fastest and least resource-intensive browsers there was, but paired with a slow Javascript implementation.

At the time, Javascript speed wasn't important for non-showcase webpages. Good for benchmarks, and that was about it.

But times have changed.
A 42 m/sec wind will break any tree
Informatica Developer Tool
What is this? Clicked on the link browsing this site and looking at the landing page gives me no clue what this does and why I should care about this. There isn't even a help page there.
It doesn't necessarily imply that.

Suppose something is funded by US taxes. It could be harder to restrict access to only citizens than to make it available to the world. For example, should a US citizen who is overseas (eg, on a 6 month sabbatical) be able to access the system?

Or it could be that only downloads from the geographic US are allowed, but further distribution is not prohibited.

Consider an existing journal article written by a US government employees. That work is in the public domain. It is not possible to infringe on the copyright ("pirate") the paper because there is no copyright protection, and in the US there is no "sweat-of-the-brow" protection for non-creative additions like OCR'ed text added to the PDF.

I think it would be an excellent test case to take all of the papers from sci-hub, extract those where the author is a government employee, and have a "public domain sci-hub" version containing only public domain articles.

The lawyer bill would be rather high, so I'm not going to do it. You would likely also have to show that you were actively filtering out papers which weren't in the public domain, and of course reply to DMCA. I can't figure out a business model which would support that. Still, I think YouTube and similar sites show that such a site is not fundamentally illegal.
Did you read their motion?[1] It is very much part of their argument. It sets a precedent that not only will other US courts compel them to unlock devices, but other countries will as well. Even if you trust the US government to not use the software maliciously, do you trust other governments?

1) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2722199-5-15-MJ-0045...
It is possible to use very little oil for the energy of manufacturing. Most manufacturing processes require electricity, and it's possible to general electricity without oil.

In fact, in the U.S. most electricity is generated from sources other than oil. Unfortunately, a lot of it comes from coal, which is worse than oil in almost every environmental aspect. But theoretically the electricity could all come from solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear.

Cars have of lot of plastic in them, and oil is the main feedstock for the manufacture of plastic. But that's not really bad in terms of global warming, as a lot of the carbon remains locked up in the plastic (as opposed to burning oil).

The final piece of the puzzle is transportation--cars are not built all in one place, the subassemblies might be manufactured all over, and then come together for final assembly via rail, boat, truck, even airplane. Each of those burns oil, so that's a big part of the oil footprint.
> For most Opera users, the sale came as a bit of a shock, not in the least because Qihoo 360 doesn’t necessarily have the best reputation.

Why doesn't Qihoo 360 have a good reputation?
I guess you get a suite number added ;)
Very, very interesting stuff, thanks.

Every couple of years I spend a couple of months with Lisp and then decide that I actually want to use Lisp to generate code in other languages. Recently I've been on a modern C++ kick, and have been really amazed at how Clang and LLVM are being used to do code indexing.

So, C++ + CL + LLVM + scientific computing ... wow!
> "distribute the binary, not okay; distribute the source + tell user to 'make', okay"

That's literally what the GPL says. Look, I'm not a GPL zealot. The only thing even vaguely worth releasing, I've released 2-clause BSD.

But we can't just pick which bits of a license we feel good about and ignore the bits we don't - that doesn't exactly make a strong case for potential GPL violators to give a shit about copyright.

It's crappy behaviour from Canonical. I think there's another strategic motive here, they know they're stretching things a lot here but perhaps they see this as a catalyst to finally see some movement on ZFS licensing by various parties (or maybe they're acting on VMWare's behalf by sucking energy away from SC's VMWare case)
Facebook AI Research Launches Partnership Program
There's no reason to have ten times as long to edit or delete a comment. Editing should be for catching misspellings and reformatting, and you shouldn't even be able to delete a comment after it's been replied to, since it destroys the entire context of the conversation.
I think they're really talking about opportunity costs. Dollars spent on making oil-burning engines more efficient are dollars not spent on developing technologies to replace oil-burning engines, and replace is really what we need.
Introducing Space Market, an unused space matching service in Japan
> emotional honesty, self awareness and the ability to equally lead and follow. This cannot be taught. Emotions are traits.

At the very least - [citation needed]. The medical community seems to disagree on that when it comes to teaching self awareness, at least for the majority of students[1][2].

I'm not sure what you mean by "emotional honesty", so it's hard to reply to that. If that's the equivalent of emotional intelligence - yes, that is teachable. Quite well.

[1] http://www.bpsmedicine.msu.edu/pdf/22-%20%20ctstudypstrng.pd...
[2] http://www.aacp.org/resources/education/cape/Documents/Habit...
Have you tried running without any extensions after having reset Firefox? The only time I've seen that where it wasn't a dying hard drive or a malware-infested/corporate IT-mismanaged system was when someone had some particularly poorly-optimized extensions installed.

I was curious & ran a couple of tests on this 2010 Mac Book Air. Normal launch time according to about:healthreport is 2.8 seconds and testing with something like `open -a Firefox https://www.google.com` when Firefox was not already running takes 4-5 seconds to finish rendering. When it is already running, it's under a second from start to finish.
Swift, SpriteKit and Sprite Sheets (Tutorial)
If I recall, from an investor presentation I was pitched on, Qihoo's crazy user and revenue growth comes from apps that claim magical things, such as speeding up your phone while lowering the CPU temperature and, while at it, removing all viruses/spyware/adware/malware. There are also claims that their 4.5 star ratings on said apps are the result of fake reviews: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919554/tencent-qihoo-antimal...
Networking industry’s first Puppet-orchestrated VXLAN fabric
>As a citizen, you have already paid for the funding of this research...

If you're really poor, then as a citizen, you probably haven't. This is a spot where wealth inequality, copyright and culture collide interestingly.

If you are poor a movie or book costs a much larger percentage of your disposable income than someone who is rich. As a society we kind of do have to answer the question of whether poverty should exclude people from culture (or science in this case). So it does become a moral justification. I support the moral right of the starving to steal from the well fed, and count it a moral failing of the well fed that there are permitted to be starving while they luxuriate in their wealth.
The parent comment wants to efficiently mirror the content to prevent it from disappearing in the event of a successful take down operation. This can be done by scraping an API, but bulk methods are faster and less likely to degrade service for other users.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3559f46e-d9c5-11e5-98fd-06d75973fe...
Sure, but that goes both ways. It could easily be said that the FBI needs to be able to look through the phones of predators in order to convict.
Podcasting Update: EFF Responds to Personal Audio’s Appeal
That is just about as buried as I thought it would be if indeed it was possible. Classic LinkedIn, thanks!
And the title is just wrong. The article's title is “Obama Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data”. It's about proposing new laws, and has nothing to do with a lawsuit.
The software modified Android phones? you mean the ones using xDrip or what are you referring to?
I didn't realize thats how it works... I guess i was hoping for something more like what the CGMs offer thats continuous and forever. I'm just so annoyed with the prices of these CGM devices and their sensor replacement costs.
I doubt very much that "this can't be ported to a Linux kernel module" was a deciding factor when choosing the CDDL.

The fly in that ointment is Danise Cooper's claim that they chose to base the CDDL on Mozilla's MPL 1.0 license in part for its GPL-incompatibility.

On the other hand, Sun's "Chief Open Source Officer", who introduced her at that talk as "the person who actually wrote the CDDL", later wrote she said that out of spite for losing the argument for licensing OpenSolaris as GPL.

So, who knows.
Snapchat?
Apple's Motion to Vacate Order Compelling Them to Assist FBI
The problem is Apple and Google have financial incentives to drag their feet on things like WebRTC to prevent the web from eating into app sales in their walled gardens.

VR will be a fascinating glimpse at where we stand in this power struggle. Do I have the right to distribute software to my iPhone owning friend? No. Only Apple has that right.

A web OS would bring us back to the age of decentralized distribution we once had with PCs and boxed software sales. It would offer a check to Google and Apple's attempt to own centralized centralized control of software distribution. An escape valve for the users who Apple and Google are currently preventing from writing the software they'd like to write (like web VR).

Without an open source web OS such apps are gated by what perhaps a few hundred engineers at these two companies can imagine, implement, and push through internal politics.

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I like Racket's second, third, fourth,... etc. [1]

I don't think there's an equivalent to cddadr for example, but at that level of deconstruction you're better off abstracting the data structure (maybe a struct [2]) or using some other mechanism like match [3]

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/pairs.html?q=second#%2...

[2] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/define-struct.html?q=s...

[3] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html?q=match#%28...
That's odd. I suspect we process written language completely differently as I don't notice when someone swaps homonyms.

Also, they really are pronounced the same, if your hearing a difference it really is just in your head.
True. But how do we know thrust doesn't go down as velocity increases? I feel like we don't have that information yet.
Great work! I miss the ability to specify "house", it seems now I have to turn off different sources in order to do that.
What I find frustrating is that there is not more adoption of ZRTP for VoIP calls. Heck, there's not a whole lot of people doing SRTP either. People just don't seem to care. =(
that idiot definitely had a private screening of the zapruder film. i mean, come on. what a beautiful shill he is.
The TL;DR from the end of the post:

There are actually not that many facts that are disputed between both sides, except the questions on

does Christoph hold sufficient rights on the code to bring forward the legal case?
are vmkernel and vmklinux one work or two separate works?
> the amount of daylight

wouldn't that be much effected by weather conditions and air quality ?
> What this kind of analysis, which is very common, misses is this: there's potentially two "works" that need talking about here, not just one.

I agree this is only one side of the analysis (does zfs.ko fall under the Linux kernel GPLv2?), but that's also the only question that the OP can credibly address (because SFC is a copyright holder in Linux, not in ZFS).

> The other potential work though is the module-and-Linux-kernel (and possibly many other bits too), delivered as one combined work. Is that a separate work as per copyright law? If so, is that work a derivative (of both the kernel and the module)? This is a much lower bar, and means that the combined work can only be distributed in accordance with the licenses of both the kernel and the module.

That line of reasoning would upend pretty much all open source licensing as we know it. E.g., paragraph 9 of the OSI's Open Source Definition [1] clearly states that "The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software." The fact that the OSI has accepted the GPLv2 [2] as an open source license implies that they (for one) do not agree.

1. https://opensource.org/osd

2. https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
Hey - so right now it's easiest to set up a cluster on GCP. I wrote some simplified directions: https://blog.redspread.com/2016/02/04/google-container-engin...

We don't plan on getting into the hosting game but we have considered making it easy to set up a free temporary test cluster so people can play around with Spread. Would that be useful?
Hopefully they did learn, but this is just a link to the same story from 2012.
Yes, but this is the shortest url I've seen. If every character counts, this is the url shortener to use.
Although it's not like the European espresso, I started to love Four Barrel in SF and Intelligentsia and Portola Coffee Lab (in Southern California) espresso in California. Both are great, no need to fight between the right and wrong way of making espresso. The article definitely delivers some great insight on how to improve the American espresso!
To add to ohnomrbil's succinct reply, I absolutely enjoy being scolded by OCaml's compiler. The type inference is just marvelous and the code is almost as concise as Python etc. OTOH, the library ecosystem for OCaml is not even close to the stuff that's available for Clojure.
GOAL and GOOL were both used by that studio: "Game Oriented Action Lisp" and "Game Oriented Object Lisp".

They switched to C++ because it was too hard to find good lisp devs.
The Google n-gram project is an example of how one might extract useful information by indexing large numbers of documents.

You might, for example, look at trends in the use of a given scientific instrument, or with a bit of NP, when the field switched from using "computer" to mean a machine instead of a person.

It was an eye-opener to see how gendered the scientific papers were in the 1960s, where the scientist is invariably a "he" and the secretary/typist is a "she". Some simple questions I have are: how have those trends changed over time? Is it different for different subfields?

It's impossible to do that on my own when the papers cost even $1 per copy.
I think it says more about the employees of Tesla then Tesla itself.
What you are describing is inevitable, unless we fight for better laws in America. For instance, accessing email older than 180 days currently doesn't require a warrant.

I helped Demand Progress build a website to promote a fix, the Email Privacy Act. The act actually has 310 cosponsors, which is more than any other bill in the House! The website goes into greater detail: https://savethefourth.net/

We have to choose our battles, and I think this is a good one. By the way, please feel free to send a PR / issue on GitHub: https://github.com/demand-progress/ecpa-www
> Share to Read This Article ... or wait 210 seconds.

No thank you.
This is covered in the article. You might say it's the central point of the article - lisp attracts "lone wolf" programmers who want to build perfect abstractions closely mapped to the real-world problem; as opposed to projects that require many man-years of effort run by MBA's who want fungible "resources" to do their tiny-bite-sized pieces according to spec. The philosophy is different.
Most people seem uninformed about this, but there are methods to produce clean oil (short-term carbon-neutral), such as green crude production from algae. Although large-scale production is not there. From that perspective, there is nothing inherently polluting about a combustion engine, in fact gasoline is an excellent chemical store of energy, and in that context possibly cleaner than current batteries. Either way this is great news.
Lisp is VOO, not SVO.

Java is SVO.

C is VOO too.
> ... or wait 280 seconds.

I'll pass too.
Unsplash API
Chicken scheme is a friendly implementation, they have a good package manager and modules repository, along with an api search tool, an active IRC, and pretty extensive documentation. It also compiles to C which is really nice.

The book The Scheme Programming Language http://amzn.com/026251298X is a good overview of the main libraries and language features, and has lots of examples.

Other than that, I've been learning mostly through google and trial and error.
That's correspondent with how Java and especially Obj-C and super especially AppleScript programmers try to write code that reads like COBOL, er, English.
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