skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Are millionaires mocking Trump?
Need I mention that Lisp 1.5 had no restarts, and that image dumps are primarily a hack, and not at the core of lisp by a long shot?
I'm impressed by someone who carries a steel oxygen tank all the way up a very high mountain.

According to http://peakfreaks.com/oxygen.htm a popular oxygen tank is the Russian-made POISK, which weighs 2.7 kg, not including the 350 g regulator. So you're lugging 3 extra kilos if you use that one.
Depends on the jurisdiction. In the EU (maybe only Germany?) you can legally request all information Facebook has on you, as well as request that all information is removed (as long as it's no longer needed for billing purposes, etc.).
London bypassed this and you just tag on/off with your standard contactless payment card, it only bills you once a day at the end.

Used it last week with Apple Pay on my Phone, worked great!
The town I live in is in pretty good shape because it's on the outer ring of the Boston commuting radius--with pretty good rail. Plus until quite recently essentially all Boston tech was west of the city anyway.

But this idea that, if only we herded everyone into cities and stopped spending on other infrastructure, everything would be great is... silly.
So what does this change mean if you're using WhatsApp while not having a Facebook account?
The fact that this was built that with the mindset of keeping the nostalgia is amazing. The click seemed RIGHT on and the mini carts are thoughtful.
There are a lot of used ones on eBay. The devices for all those graduated kids has to go somewhere.

Looks like ~$20 for a TI-73, vs. $70 on Amazon, and ~$40 for a TI-83+, vs. ~$80 on Amazon.
Synth signal chains and CAD seem to share the same code flow as an abstract syntax tree iiuc. The elegance with which this is put together could be applied to all three of these problem domains...
What would you like to see most in minix? -- Linus Torvalds [25 years ago today]
> it doesn't make economic sense

People repeat this a lot, but it isn't that cut and dry.

People often ONLY include the direct cost of the two vehicles. They don't include the massively discounted loans on new vehicles (e.g. 0% APR), the warranties (e.g. 3-5 years bumper to bumper), sometimes better MPG (newer model, etc), cheaper insurance, skipping state inspection for the first three-five years, new tires & other consumables, et al.

Obviously you have to look at specific vehicles to know for sure; but when I last looked at exactly this (recently used Vs. new) without the externalities it was approx $2-3K cheaper (talking CarMax, non-negotiable pricing) but after factoring in all the things listed above it was damn close (within $500-800).

And as you go more used are you really getting a deal or just exchanging miles/wear&tear for cash? The asset also has depreciated in value by then.

Just to be clear, I am simply saying you have to look at each vehicle one by one, a lot of models/manufacturers depreciate at varying speeds (e.g. a Kia depreciates a lot faster than a used Toyota or Honda).
Ask HN: Is there any use nowadays for a proprietary C compiler?
As a result of projects like gcc and LLVM, where their progress gets validated by a huge group of software engineers all over the world, a proprietary compiler, developed only by a single company, should not be able compete effectively (at least in my mind). Is this true or do these products provide some advantage?
I'm not using partner instead of girlfriend just in case some third party might get their fee fees hurt. This is insanity. The linked articles provide many absurd examples. This isn't a slippery slope, this is stupidity personified.
It sounds like the judge was more annoyed that the defendant didn't answer, and any use of this case as precedent would have to take that into account.
If a landlord owns lots of retail properties in an area, then the constraint quickly becomes the finite number of retail dollars being spent in that area on a given retail category, especially given that retail rents are more or less a fraction on the takings of the retailer.

Lets say you own 20 stores in a concentrated area, with some restaurants, some newsagents, some hairdressers making up 15 tenants, and a 5 of them are empty. If you rent them out to a competitor to any of your existing tenants, then they're just dividing the existing business among more shops, so now you have 20 leases to administer, properties to maintain, etc. Better to just leave the 5 empty, and the business goes to the existing tenants. Those tenants are now more profitable due to better economies of scale (and less competition) than they would otherwise be, so you can raise their rent. The 15 tenants and the landlord win, customers and residents of that area lose.

The only solution is to penalize concentrated ownership somehow (which has its own problems, presumably reducing values), or find ways to attract new customers for new retail categories into the area. For example, http://renewnewcastle.org/property-owners/ is a scheme whereby property owners let tenants use empty premises for free if they're not competing with existing businesses in the area.
While I do see the usefulness for the specific example, and while it does seem to reduce boilerplate which is really nice, how useful it is outside of the Point3D example? For example, how often do you actually gt/lt comparisons between classes, or equate classes when they're not mathematical constructs like this? And if you add an attribute that shouldn't be used in repr or comparison, you have to explicitly say that in the attribute declaration, meaning it's would be much less clear what's going on down the road -- as in it won't be apparent how the comparison works or why this is being printed the way it is -- which I don't like in a language like Python. It almost seems like you're trading language level boilerplate for this library's boilerplate, and while it may be less with this library it obfuscates what's going on at the expense of more explicit code.

I can kind of understand something like this in Ruby, as it kind of encourages this (and it also has nicer class string-ification by default), but in Python I'd rather have all of my logic be explicitly stated out at the expense of less boilerplate. Also how often do you really need to overwrite those gt/lt methods in production code? If I saw that, rather than an explicit e.g. `.gt` method, I'd consider that a code smell.
Would you seriously want a lawyer who has learned only from books ? Such a lawyer would have very little experience in representing clients, and would not have learned from experienced lawyers.

Law has tons of grand overarching principles, that are extremely unclear unless you learn how to think about them. Furthermore, I don't think anyone can learn how to interpret conflicting laws, and likely outcomes under complex circumstances in any way other than practicing it under guidance from an experienced judge.

Furthermore a lawyer should be a good negotiator, should know how to apply client privilege in practice, should know ...

And you might say, become an apprentice somewhere. Yes, but if we do that, we'll go back to lawyers being a protected profession : only family of existing lawyers can learn from good lawyers and become good themselves. That wouldn't be a 100% thing but this would make it impossible for 99% of the population to become a good lawyer.

You also don't want bad lawyers to exist at all, because of the damage they can do to clients. You must absolutely prevent lawyering from having a lemon law problem or the justice system will collapse into total randomness. The situation we have now, with the degrees, is a grand compromise that means anyone (with some small amount of money, and little connections) can become a respected lawyer. I wouldn't mess with it unless you're prepared to see massive unexpected consequences.
Maybe, as an academic exercise you could find an upper limit on the benefits of density.

In practice, however, we are so far from anything remotely resembling a natural limit on the benefits to density that we will see a lot of improvements by freeing cities to become more dense. Removing the artificial constraints on growth imposed by anti-growth nativists will do a lot to improve affordability.
I didn't downvote, but I'd guess it's because you didn't answer the parent's question exactly, which was asking the OP's rationale for their opinion (not the rationale for the addition to the language). Your comment still provides valuable context so it seems unfair to me.
"it was available in many countries and the Internet has no borders"

Ummm... tell that to the Chinese or anyone, anywhere in the world trying to watch the complete international Netflix catalog. And as for VPNs, they're like the tunnels under the actual physical borders which are also not impenetrable.
There are several flavors of "purists" in alpine climbing. Some are curmudgeons who draw lines in the sand about what is and is not acceptable. But other purists fit into the category of minimalists--how much can equipment be pared down, and how quickly can they move on the high peaks. In many ways, speed == safety. The faster you can move, the better chance you have of reaching a summit before bad weather moves in, or the faster you can react to bad weather and get the heck off the mountain. If you are relying on supplemental oxygen, that is a fair bit of extra equipment that often requires stocked camps.
For a monospace font, the characters aren't nearly distinctive enough.
Emissions standard says I don't have enough miles on the odometer, huh? I'll show them.
That's precisely what it's supposed to do. If you update the Tripwire db every time you "initiate an action that causes monitored files to change" - then it does a _magnificent_ job of telling you when someone _else_ changes those files.

You need to run 'tripwire --update' every time you run 'apt-get update' or 'pip install foo' or 'npm install bah' or whatever - then you wont get that storm of false positives.
> We don't have a name for what you call values, as they're either irrelevant, or nonexistant in most contexts, and barely mentioned.

They do exist. Python has va... errr... the-thing-for-which-we-don't-yet-have-a-name: small enough numbers, special constants and object references. And they are relevant, because these are the things that you can bind to variables, pass to and return from functions, etc. If you think they are irrelevant, you don't understand them well.

> However, we can't call them values, as that name is taken.

I won't quibble about names.

> Most CBV languages call them atoms,

C is call-by-value. No atoms. Java is call-by-value. No atoms. ML is call-by-value language. No atoms. Maybe by “call-by-value”, you mean “inspired by Common Lisp”? That's not what call-by-value means, though.

> but that doesn't fit because they aren't necessarily atomic.

Right. In fact, the whole point is to use compound ones whenever we can!

> Let's try... Symbolic value? It seems to work: a given symbolic value represents all other equivalent symbolic values, and it's value that behaves like the symbol type in most languages. So that works unless it's already taken.

A symbol is supposed to represent something else, but a va... errr... the-thing-for-which-we-don't-yet-have-a-name doesn't represent anything else. If anything, what I call representations are the ones representing something else.

I propose “mathematical value”. Not everything you call a value can be plugged into an equation, but mathematical values by definition can.
> So scheme WAS a lisp, and now isn't?

EINE: Eine is not Emacs.

ZWEI: Zwei was Eine, Initially.

And, thus:

SWALANI: Swalani Was A Lisp, And Now Isn't.

A dialect waiting to be invented.

:)

What might be a recursive acronym for Scheme, though?

Oh, oh ... I just got one:

"Scheme Crams Hygiene into Every Macro Expansion."
False dichotomy in the name of injected identity. Strengthening against state actors is strengthening against stalkers.
This is one of those few moments when saying Big Data is actually a well-used term.
Those aren't what make a language a Lisp. There are Lisps without Automatic Memory Management, there are Lisps without restarts or images (although hot code loading is fairly common, and I've never seen a Lisp without a repl). Homoiconic expressions are an important part of it, but there are many lisps without macro systems.

I'm a Schemer, and Scheme IS a lisp: we don't have restarts, but we do have call/cc, and images as Lisp has them are an optimization hack in any case. And we're finally getting some well supported implementations. Yes, we have hot code loading in most implementations.

Come to the dark side, we have (lexical) cookies (encoded with the current continuation after baking, of course).
In other news, it will take NYC five years to implement tap and pay MetroCards.
Possibly because it is handholding them through the process. A more mature candidate would not need such direction, and might see it as not a good match for them.

Also, not to pick, but the owl character that might seem like a good idea to younger candidates, that might respect it for the good design and soft psychological impact, might scare off the mature employees that are there to get the job done and are there to engineer solutions.

Despite these things, I think it looks professional, and the fact is that if you're a startup, you're most likely looking for a younger candidate, because they are cheaper, can be more motivated, and are definitely easier to mold. And yes, if you discriminate, that is illegal in the U.S., at least.

However, at some point, you need to hire more experienced candidates, and this process will need to change to reflect that. I'm a more mature person myself, and would not seek to fill a development team with juniors. I've seen what that can do. It's fine to have interns and juniors, but that shouldn't be the primary talent pool, or you'll end up with serious design problems and lots of poor code. But that can happen with more experienced candidates also- that is why you want good, more experienced candidates to create an environment that fosters growth of incredibly smart juniors.
Build a Recurrent Neural Net in 5 Minutes
What I don’t understand in this story, who and how limited the competition?

The product costs a few bucks to produce, retails for $600, and not covered by patents: epinephrine discovered in 1901, the autoinjector is derived from military model likely in public domain.

How comes no one in the whole US wants to earn billions manufacturing a similar product and selling it for $50?
Most people aren't really high-end labor. If you're building a website or a glorified CRUD app or the vast majority of enterprise drudgery, you can do that from anywhere; sitting cheek by jowl with your coworker is not really any better than having an XMPP or Skype channel, and tens, hundreds, even thousands of miles between you.

We used to talk about things here, on the internet. We're doing it right now, in fact. I've had far more stimulating discussions with people here, and other places on the web, where you can draw people not just from one provincial area, but from the whole world.
Long time fan. Great docs. And a 'native' Prolog interpreter: http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#pilog
Ah, good. Thanks Drew. By the way, I didn't see any actually, you know, graphing applications in the repos. Those exist, right?
No. You don't have to read it all. Treat Slack like a hallway conversation. Do you insist on being there for every hallway conversation? Of course not. If you miss one that's okay because people know to put anything important in an email or on a wiki, after the hallway conversation is done. Treat Slack the same way. If it's the only place any important conversation lives you're doing it wrong.
I'm sure a lot of other people did too, but I suspect the vast majority of college students never heard those things until they arrived at college.
Those jobs are hard to do remotely because they involve providing services to other people who live in the area - in the case of San Francisco, that's mostly tech industry workers who could work remotely but don't for reasons of industry politics. The hairdressers and mechanics and waiters required to service them act as a multiplier on the resulting population growth, but the cause is all the jobs that could be done remotely but aren't. Every tech firm that insists on operating from SF leads to a penumbra of non-tech workers around it being stuck in SF in jobs that cannot be done remotely.
If only Nintendo did the NFC cartridges thing with their Mini NES. That would've been so awesome and maybe somehow they could've had third parties rerelease thier own games independently through that mechanism.
I love how everything is pico until these Java namespaces come along and crash the party.

I think it should make it clearer whether you can actually use this and how. It seems to be run inside a VM and call C and Java functions. They advertise this prominently, but having to run both Picolisp and JVM does not seem very attractive to me. Can we use it reasonably without Java? Is it production ready? How fast is it? How old is it?

I think a programming language is hard to sell, so they should work on that a bit (if that's there goal, of course).
Why is 2 a plus? It was deleted/edited for a reason. It's like going through someone's trash.
Puts on tinfoil hat

I'm a little naive when it comes to this sort of tech, but does anybody else wonder if this leak could be a notice from the Russians that they do, in fact, have all of Hillary's emails?
I don't remember seeing any electric cars in Mad Max...
Try TXR Lisp; you will be charmed.

http://www.nongnu.org/txr
I don't disagree that there's value to physical concentration and face to face. But not every talented engineer (and associated financial/business/etc. people) can live in Silicon Valley or wants to. It's a constraint. Yes, there are concentrating forces but, as an industry, we need to live with the fact that there are countervailing forces. Distribution, even if its not absolute, is the reality.
A FeliCa based iPhone? I will buy it instantly.

For a long time Android phones had the lead when it comes to paying digitally with phones in Japan and Korea. Their open NFC API allows for all sort of cool things like reading the balance of your card.

Japan has FeliCa more or less everywhere. Close to all IC cards are based around it and even in the time before smartphones, people in Japan were already able to pay with their feature phones which featured FeliCa chips. Nowadays you still need a special Android phone that supports it, though lately you can also get Samsung ones.

In Korea there are luckily close to no FeliCa terminals but still an iPhone is useless.

Providers here in Japan even started selling "NFC cases" that you put your iPhone in which then connects via bluetooth with the phone -- just so you can pay with your phone.

Bringing this in will be a huge deal. I know a lot of people who pick Android purely because they can pay with it. There are even a lot of people who have 2 phones, one iPhone that is their main phone and one purely for paying digitally.
Ah. I always forget to check ebay. Although pre 84+ calculators were a pain to flash...
Inside Facebook’s Political Media Machine
What happened in the worst case scenarios? Did anyone turn up with no project or fumbled at adding a feature to their project?
Also smart to ask about satisfaction, as it's definitely a more useful metric than market share in figuring out what to learn.
I'm reading this super late, but I wanted to say I agree completely.
Appalachian people offers a timely parable of nuanced history of race in America
Hmm, it seems this would only be true of all residents within walking distance of the empty buildings already have all of their desires catered to by a storefront you own. I am really skeptical that this could be true in a place like Manhattan where the supply of commercial space is highly constrained.

This seems more like a price stickiness issue.
I am not completely following what you mean by "98% is of an unknown class, but pulled from a known distribution".

Are you suggesting that:
2 percent of samples are positive, drawn from p(x|y=1)

98 percent of samples are drawn from a distribution p(x), but may be either positive or negative?

The setting that you described above is called "positive and unlabeled (PU)" learning. This paper: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~elkan/posonly.pdf is one of the seminal articles on the topic (although the equation on the bottom of page 214 contains a statement that may not necessarily hold true). There are quite a lot more recent papers on this topic.
Well, if universities are doing so wrong, you would expect people coming out to fix the problem by competing with them, at least in a free market like the States.

You may say they have, by setting up trade schools, whatever they are. If the trade schools are not doing enough, that's the problem of the trade schools, rather than of the universities. If the trade schools can provide good enough education, employers will recognize credentials they provide. If employers don't recognize them, there must be something missing from their education. The piece missing may well be what universities want the students to learn: communication with those you don't like.
In the hypothetical situation where the stock has a clear value, is liquid, and you have no organizational penalty for selling; I would want to limit at least the vested stock to some percentage of my net worth -- maybe 5%-25%.

However, it's very likely that you would not have liquidity, or that trying to sell your vested shares will upset the organization and may make it harder to vest further shares.
You can send links, but it's copy/paste functionality is "quirky".
I don't think I made any comment about its utility?
Meh, you can travel for a conference or to the city for the meetup. No different than now.
New England, and indeed much of the East Coast, is a far cry from the rest of the country. The width of the entire state of Massachusetts is smaller than the distance between some neighboring towns in the Midwest.
Ad hominem? Did I get the spelling right?
Sunvox is great! The generator window is sort of like this, but a lot more features. Have you played with his other creations Virtual ANS, or Nature Oscillator [1]? Trippy stuff.

I see this being more like Pure Data, or Max/MSP, but they have a lot going on with video, audio, OSC, lots of stuff [2].

[1] http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/

[2] https://puredata.info/
Real world experience = living and working together with other people = social skills. The 6-12 months bootcamp is probably the best ROI you can have: not too long in time, very demanding and job oriented, face to face with other people. You may also want to get in touch with former poker players turned developers, just send them an e-mail, they will probably tell you more from the perspective you really need. Good luck!
If you want encryption at rest with an ssh-accessible data store (like rsync.net) then you should use borg[1][2] - the "holy grail" of backup tools.

This is unrelated to ZFS send/recv, other than the fact that we are also the only cloud storage platform to offer borg/attic support.

[1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[2] http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
> E.g. it benefits you that Google uses TCP internally

But they didn't modify TCP to prevent interoperability did they?
And I'm even more impressed if they aren't an asshole and bring it back down with them instead of dumping it on top of the mountain.