skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think VM image saving/loading is still debatable as to whether or not it's good, assuming that it's the primary way of generating a binary image, as it is in most lisps.

A lot more work has to go into guaranteeing reproducible builds, and it tends to be a fairly non-compact representation of your executable. If CL were a little bit less customizable at load-time, that would allow for much faster FASL loading, which in turn would make the reliance on saved-images less important.

Obviously there are uses for that feature, and having a feature doesn't by itself make a language worse, but when that feature is a square-peg, but still the best fit for a particular round-hole, it causes problems.
I have DSC to thank for looking into Dorco. I never bought DSC but heard they used Dorco. I've hated shaving my entire life because I always used an electric or shitty Target brand razors. I also tried safety razors and they were worse for me than Target despite trying everything to make it better. A nice Dorco makes so much of a difference. Shaving is now just sort of neutral to me rather than negative.

Stocked up on a year supply of Dorco in December I think when they have 25% off. I use a new razor every few shaves guilt free because they're cheap enough.
Does it matter where it's state of is saved? The point is that in order to catch it you have to have a phone AND be in my land.
This is really well written. Obviously outdated in some areas but still high quality.
I know this is horrible, but one of my goals was to get that checkmark next to my name one day.
shrugs

The docs could have fooled me. You try to learn anything about Racket, and pretty soon, you're 10 levels deep into nonsense about contracts and other junk that you shouldn't need to see just to find the semantics of cons, or define. Which is to say, the docs are bad. But that's excusable.

What I do NOT find exusable, and what started this conversation, is that syntax-case is overcomplicated compared to, say, er and ir macros, or syntactic closures, all of which were already available. So use a more complex system, when it's been shown a simpler one will do?
Yes I commented on them in the last paragraph.
There's a fair amount of research in economic history on almost exactly this topic. Two recent papers http://www.nber.org/papers/w12328.pdf and https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4s_WKe-US99LV9XVTNVNzFxYW8... have looked at how measures of the artificial-ness of borders (how straight they are, how often they cut through the territory of ethnic groups, ratio of a country's area to the area of its convex hull) are correlated with various measures of welfare (e.g. GDP/capita, lack of conflict). The papers are often controversial because they often claim something approaching causality (see recent Twitter war https://twitter.com/bill_easterly/status/753252113510268928).
I use both atom and sublime in vim mode. Also visual studio. I barely ever use actual vim for programming unless I'm throwing together a one off script on a a remote Linux terminal. When I say vim I usually mean something else with a vim extension.
I guess some people could see it that way given the donglegate scandal, but it can't be harassment if it's not repeated. And if something is to be repeated, then lots of things can be used besides dick pics.
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>Now that the founders have shown they are capable and will undo the way the system has executed if they do not like it, I feel much more comfortable keeping my money in fiat where the regulations are well-defined and I know I have recourse through the law.

US fiat failed and was only rescued through ad hoc legislation. US fiat would not exist today if new rules (unknown at the time of failure) were not defined to essentially rollback prior transactions.
Anyone have a reference for Bing specific SEO? I mean, in the technical sense.

I've noticed my site ranks significantly worse in Bing/DDG than on Google. All I've done for Google is on page SEO, nothing fancy or Google specific.

I'm wondering if I've set something up incorrectly that I could fix via Bing Webmaster tools or some other method.

Update:

Apparently, this is not so. I now rank the same in DDG/Bing as in Google when I search from my devices.

I can't account for this. Just a week ago (before writing this post) I was ranking much worse, when searching from my devices. But I checked my logs, and I've had no surge in Bing related traffic. So the issue was specific to me?

Would still be very interested in a Bing technical SEO guide, as it would help me troubleshoot cases like that.

Also, I can add that my Bing + Yahoo + DDG traffic is about 3% of the total volume of Google searches. My demographic is young, college educated people who are applying to law school.
The Cold War in Europe was probably OK but things like the Vietnam War or overthrowing democratically elected leaders because they leaned socialist was very questionable. For example overthrowing Mosaddegh in Iran was probably not in the best interest of the US and caused a lot of long term problems.
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Interesting, I have the opposite experience. I much prefer walking in streets designed by central planners to accommodate modern crowds (Singapore, central Beijing, central Chengdu...) than twisty narrow streets there for historical reasons (Hong Kong, especially the stretch from Central to Sheung Wan, especially on weekends; but also the "preserved" hutongs in Beijing).

The reason is crowds: try walking through Sheung Wan, or Singapore's preserved shophouse streets in Chinatown, on a Sunday afternoon and see what average speed you achieve... And you can also spot crazy drivers better in a large, wide-roaded grid than round the corner of a hutong where you have to spot the direction of the rapidly approaching noise so you know which side to jump. Not to mention: the sun can actually shine if the roads are wide, in tight streets you are in the dark even at lunchtime.

Smog is a problem which can be solved, as much of Europe and the US have demonstrated. China will eventually move industry out of the cities and drive with catalytic converters.

Where tight streets might win is when they are coupled with a pedestrian area. "No cars" is still the most pleasant walking experience.
Huh?! You're saying that some people don't know what is inappropriate, not that they don't care.
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I read somewhere that manmade boundaries can be clearly identified. They are mostly straight lines on maps. It makes more sense after reading this article. This is the reason why so many African countries have such sharp boundaries. Colony masters divided them amongst themselves, ignoring natural resource division, people and ethnicity of new countries. This has led to so many conflicts among these countries as well. I might be wrong, but I think this happened to middle-east as well.
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Good, just because you may have the right to free speech doesn't mean you should be given a platform to spread your hate.
Yes, that's the point. The press office just got clickbaity with the word "weird," as it always does for any QM paper.
It's become pretty standard on here to downvote without being constructive. Maybe I misinterpreted the article but I thought it was fairly clearly saying FP is a good thing. I got to over a thousand points without going loopy, that's enough!

Good night.
This could eventually factor into Twitter's monetization strategy.

Namely, now people can self-assert to be 'important'; relevant quote here:

> "We want to make it even easier for people to find creators and influencers on Twitter so it makes sense for us to let people apply for verification"

These creators and influencers are the drivers of most of the user engagement to Twitter. By changing this process to be requestable instead of the Hollywood Principle ('don't call us, we'll call you'), they can gauge the level of interest that people will have in a premium level of service -- which, as of right now, is free, but selective.
Let me get this straight, Milo is of foreign-descent, homosexual, and has inter-racial relationships, but is a hardcore conservative? Why people take him seriously, I will never know.
FYI, took me like 20 in Sublime Text.

1. Select lines. Shift-Ctrl-End, Alt-l, Home.

2. Type up to the first quote.

3. Move 3 words along. Ctrl-Right, Ctrl-Right, Ctrl-Right.

4. Second quote, comma.

5. Go to start of next word. Ctrl-Right, Ctrl-Left. It's also easy to normalize spacing at this point if you just hold shift then press space.

6. Type "StatusType."

7. Press End, type ");".

Most of the time was spent in point 2.

Admittedly Alt-l isn't OS-native, but multiple cursors are so useful that you kind'a learn to assume them.
Sure just walk into an embassy with a Flash drive, I'm sure they've got sacks of doubloons in a basement safe just waiting for someone like you..
Thanks for the link, I didn't know people were doing this. I had only seen EthereumClassic, which seems prone to attack, and a nightmare for exchanges.
> Antichamber: I'd consider this a mix of braid meets open-world portal.

Seconded. It's brain-breaking in a fun way, playing with your expectations.
Egypt and Equatorial Guinea are clearly on latitude/longitude lines, but the rest look pretty random. I am actually surprised that it's as nonlinear as it is - go take a look at a map of Africa, not much is actually rectangular! There are a lot of straight lines (which would be another interesting metric to study-the countries most closely bounded by an irregular polygon) in several interior borders on the Sahara, as well as Namibia and its neighbors. But none except Equatorial Guinea are really rectangular.

The state borders, on the other hand, are often quadrilaterals. Perfect scores to Wyoming and Colorado, and near-perfect for many others.
A few years ago Unilever partnered with Shick to launch Axe razors to compete with P&G. That may not have worked as well as they'd hoped, thus the purchase of DSC.

http://adage.com/article/news/unilever-sharpens-axe-razor-la...
No $filter is a horrible construct which accepts a free-form expression that doesn't map cleanly to any variable that's effectively being used as a tunnel to pass an opaque query blob from OData client to an OData server resulting in an anti-pattern violating Microsoft's own Service design guidelines: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954638.aspx?f=255...

$filter is an unnatural implementation detail leaking both OData implementation and internal table structures to your user-facing API exposing the entire OData query surface area to consumers where as soon as someone binds to it, your API becomes frozen and your API is forever coupled to the OData server implementation given it's much harder to build a compliant OData query parser than it is to parse a simple HTTP path info and QueryString. So when you need to change your implementation for whatever reason, e.g. you want to populate a part of the query with a search index or alternative NoSql data store, you're headed for a rewrite, whereas if you designed your HTTP API naturally behind an intuitive, impl-agnostic URL structure you could easily change the implementation without breaking your API consumers.
Maybe give people a survey to assign a word2vec-like coordinate to their beliefs about each term, and then tell them which term is actually closest to their belief vector?
i wonder what his ownership is... $1b cash acquisition is serious.
Dollar Shave Club just sold for $1B to Unilever
What did he do?
DAO failed, but it controls about 15% of the total ether supply, so it was too big to fail, and the fork will save it.
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2 weeks! I switch every 2 days. Love the sharp blade feel.
I agree starting from scratch is unlikely to happen. XAML however, wasn't helped by being built in the era when XML was perceived as the solution to every problem.
Though newer gaming screens are adding G-Sync (Nvidia) and FreeSync (AMD) to allow flexible monitor framerates. On a compatible GPU and screen you can display at whatever framerate you need, even a varying one, up to the maximum rate. The screen draws a new frame whenever you give it one.

On that sort of hardware (and I'm assuming only in fullscreen mode) you should be able to match your render framerate to a multiple of your physics framerate.

Whether you'd want to is arguable. If people noticed it they'd probably complain that maxing render at 140 Hz (assuming 20 Hz physics) on their 144 Hz screen is wasting their hardware. If you're doing it dynamically as physics perf varies up and down, the abrupt shifts in render framerate might be noticeable.
Never mind the fact that it does matter to a lot of people whether they are committing a crime. Not everyone is a capitalist sociopath.

If someone without a conscience wanted to maximize their profit, they'd probably just sell to both sides.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12126338
Isn't China doing a better job with mass transit? Look at how much the Shanghai metro has grown, for example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#/media/File%3...
Is there a data dump of all of this instead of Wikileak's website? Would certainly make it a lot easier to comb through.
In asymmetric warfare, being the little guy tends to be the greater challenge, and carries harsh, personally felt consequences.

Protecting livestock, so they can be fleeced by their proper owner, on the otherhand, doesn't imbue the same sort of charisma upon the good shepherd.
One of my sites yesterday had about 64,000 referrals from Google, and just over a thousand each from Bing and Yahoo (and just under a thousand from Baidu).

Google has indexed more than 50 times as many pages as Bing on that site, and crawls far more aggressively (over a million pages per day), which will both be factors, but the main one is probably still that Bing has less visitors.

So for me Bing is still irrelevant as a source of traffic. Even though I'd prefer to see some competition for Google, there just isn't any. DuckDuckGo referred me just 32 visitors yesterday, so they have even further to go!
You'd be amazed how many Neoreactionaries are gay guys from foreign countries. I've never known what to make of this phenomenon, but it's fascinating to watch.
About damn time. It's a shame that it took him & his followers harassing a celebrity to get this done, given how many people they've threatened before, but hardly surprising.
Yeah, one guy in the recent past actually got one for, basically, "not being George Bush".
I think this is an argument by analogy:

If bad, leveraged, investments in real-estate will not result in large losses, due to government intervention, then the real-estate market gets inflated, as when you have limited downside, your expected returns go up significantly. This also hurts less-leveraged investors (e.g. people who saved a large down-payment) as they get less house for their money, but don't gain any risk-reduction as their risk of negative-equity is much lower to begin with.

If malinvestments in ETH can be rolled-back, then any risks that are reduced by potential future roll-backs[1] will be discounted by investors, which means investors who carefully vet their investments for those risks no longer gain any benefit.

1: I'm not familiar with the fork, so don't know what the roll-back criteria are, but remember, to distort the market a roll-back need not actually happen in the future, just that a significant fraction of investors believe it is likely
It also creates an incentive for people to use their real information and fill in all those additional fields that people love ignoring (date of birth, phone number). Advertisers will be quite pleased.
I love my butterfly too! It's a different brand with a similar mechanism.
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Hummm...

I was wrong. There is a biiiig risk, yes!

Let's say John is a drug dealer from Miami. Pedro is a addicted guy from Brazil. They are Friends already.

1. John adds a fake GoPro to sell on eBay, inside it, there is LSD drugs.

2. Pedro asks someone on Grabr to Bring this awesome GoPro.

3. The inoccent Mule visit Grabr, see the offer and accept it, thinking it is a real GoPro camera, but inside of it, there is a lot of LSD druuugs.

4. The inoccent Goes to jail. Nothing happens with Pedro, John or with Grabr's CEO.

Yeah, that is not going to work on eBay products.
Not quite. Ethereum's trie allows transaction paths like this to be clipped with almost no collateral damage to the rest of the data structure. Bitcoin's UTXO model makes it very difficult to roll back transactions since it would cause havoc on every other transaction on the network.
OT: it's frustrating to pay Google Contributor to skip ads, and still get nagged by bloomberg.com for using an ad blocker (which I've never done).

https://www.google.com/contributor/
Everything and everyone the left disagrees with now gets labeled as "hate" and increasingly gets flagged and then banned. Why is the left so afraid of a debate?
It would be nice if our technically-minded organizations would use more precise language, even if our government cannot.
It's truly decentralized. Really, I don't think decentralization is a good thing, and this is demonstrating why. If you've got a truly decentralized system, pretty much anybody can tear the whole thing down while no one is paying attention.

In a centralized system, there's a small group of trusted people who are responsible for keeping it safe.
>There are stereotypes about programmers and their social skills and if over 20 years programming has taught me anything it is that they portray way too many individuals involved in it accurately.
At 30x earnings [1], they just made back most if not all of the purchase price of Deepmind

That's a unique way of defining "made back"
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I wonder how much of it is due to their rewards program.

Shameful admission: Bing is my primary search engine, since they pay me (approx $50 over the past 18 months). 90+% of the time the search results are as good as Google, and re-searching when it isnt takes a few seconds.
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They used an equirectangular projection, because rectangles. But that means that some of these rotated rectangles are more like parallelograms when you look at them in another way.

Mercator actually would have been a good choice because it preserves local angles. Not sure why you'd be so opposed to it in this case. For this purpose, relative sizes don't matter at all.

And I don't think a local projection would clarify anything. Countries can get pretty big and non-local. If you strive for complete geometric accuracy on the scale of, say, Canada, the idea of a "rectangle" breaks down because there are no parallel lines on Earth, and four right angles don't bring you back to the orientation where you started.
Akkartik: the paper of mine that you cited has a bunch of theorems following the program laid out by Gordon Plotkin in the single best paper I ever read: "Call-by-Name, Call-by-Value and the Lambda Calculus" - a truly profound piece of work that is still worth careful study. But my TOPLAS paper on the topic of LISP can safely be skipped --- the punch-line, as I said, is that the amazing genius John McCarthy messed up the base-case for the definition of his hat(.) function. Stuff happens. In the process, he invented (the very buggy) LISP which was the essential bridge between the true source of sensible computation --- (typed) lambda calculus --- and modern and future software.

(And for what it's worth (ha!) the architect for my present residence was the amazing Terry Heinlein, nephew of Robert Heinlein (of "grok" fame.))
Touchscreen drivers are pretty much a commodity now. You see a lot of the same manufacturers over and over (Atmel, eGalax/EETI, FocalTouch, TI, etc).

The problem is that every hardware designer hooks up a different GPIO line for the touch interrupt signal and so you're deep into the kernel to hook that all up.

Devicetree has made this lot easier now, though. Then you have smaller issues like setting up calibration and TSLIB/filtering files, but that's a lot easier than it was five years ago. Multitouch can still be hairy depending on the target O/S.
The DAO did exactly, exactly, what it was supposed to do. In no way can it be have said to fail, except in the "wasn't a great investment" sense. Maybe in failed in the "wow using terrible languages to write complicated code is a bad idea" way, too.

Ethereum failed, as they decided smart contracts aren't a great idea, so they're now going to involve humans when they feel like it. The whole premise of Ethereum was the opposite of what they're doing.
I wonder what the opportunity cost is for the various departments that get put into overdrive for any acquisition: business analysts doing number crunching, legal doing legal, engineers doing various integrations, executives doing lunches. Countless (tens of?) thousands of hours of work before any productivity is yielded, and then when it finally is yielded its propped up by all kinds of dubious accounting to seem like more of a success then it probably was..
Related previous effort:

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/better-data-centers-...
I guess I don't interpret the presence of a code of conduct as an alienating, harsh, moralistic approach to anything. It's about as alienating/harsh/moralistic as a kitten, if the kitten was easily ignored and made of ASCII.
The problem with valuing bugs at their damage potential is that the total damage potential of all bugs in any given product is almost certainly magnitudes greater than the total value of the product itself.
I've only seen a little from Milo, and what I saw didn't seem hateful. So I'd appreciate someone giving examples.
Most of this air pollution is from poorly designed and operated coal powerplants and poorly maintained cars not factory's. It's a problem of poor regulation not exports.
And then a city councilman hits 3 red lights in a row, blames the AI, and ends the program.
I've heard that the dullness is caused by corrosion more so than cutting anything... the recommendation was to store the blade in alcohol to prevent corrosion and keep it sharp.

Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?
Conservatives have to be straight and racist?
Satoshi's genius was to disappear. Ethereum's creators have a stake in it, which is a moral hazard.
How does Dorco (or DSC) compare with Harry's shavers?
I use the latter and just curious.
It seems perfectly unambiguous to me. However, ambiguousness may have been an intended affect of the statement.
So make your own search engine. Google is a business, not your personal valet. Of course it is going to do what makes sense to the 99% of people.
True, but cities have borders and if one constrains building, the builders can just go outside that city's limits.

This is why I think that statewide factors are the dominant force here.
What debate was involved here?
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>Of course, if you expand every input out to a full line, it's going to look worse than a string of keypresses. However if we compare more fairly:

Expanding them into new lines outlines the time spent though. ^L is no where near as fast as 2Y.
How exactly is this better than standard PID control? I'm thinking if you actually look at what it came up with, is probably some form of PID control on systems that previously didn't have it. Think fans that are simply left on all the time.

We're talking about simple physics. Heat transfer. Cooling systems. They should have been installed, operated and programmed correctly using very simple techniques.

It's an interesting application but I'm thinking this is a prima facie example of over-engineering.
There was an article that something like 45% of new units are bought by foreigners and people from other metros.