skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno about expected and encouraged. Neither really, nor discouraged though. Really the point was that this was written in the context of a particular standardization effort and was to say "this is out of scope". As it happens, RPG and I disagreed completely on whether Lisp1 or Lisp2 was a good idea. Most readers read this like a Rorschach, assuming that the article confirms their own beliefs, not stopping to think that the article just presents two sides of an issue. In the context of the design process, Lisp2 won out (and I happen to be happy about that). But it is reasonable and appropriate for both to thrive if there are users who like those sorts of things.

I created the Lisp1/Lisp2 terminology as a dodge because we started out writing this paper using terms something akin to "Scheme-like" and "CL-like", and Scheme was winning for reasons unrelated to the issue at hand. I wanted people to separate their warm fuzzies for Scheme from the particular design choice, as I really think there are very strong and reasonable reasons to have a Lisp2. The net result was that in the context of CL, those of us liking Lisp2 successfully argued that it was an unnecessary change to the language from a stability standpoint.

This paper is called "Technical Issues..." because the committee document (titled "Issues...") was longer and went into other issues that RPG didn't think were pertinent to formal publication.

I frankly don't understand (or perhaps don't agree) with any claim that Lisp was looking to condense namespaces. By convention and John McCarthy's official request, Lisp is the name of a family of languages, not of a particular language. Lisp has no preference. It spans languages with broadly varying points of view.

Ironically, CL is really at least a Lisp4, by the way. block tags and go tags are legitimately different namespaces. They just messed up the discussion so we left those out. Whether you also count the type/class homes as a namespace is something that doesn't fit neatly into the terminology so is the reason I say "at least a Lisp4". Left to personal subjectivity.
-kmp
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How? Do you log in? If you do, how do you prevent tracking/logging?
We didn't have time to create FAQ yet. Sorry.

In the meantime you can read more about AirWander here:
http://allplane.tv/airline-marketing-socia-media/2016/10/7/a...
You sure? Cause in this analogy, the 2015 model was at a serious discount while the 2016 has no discount at all.
strangely, I think all the tunnel that was previously dug is to the north and south of the route that's being opened now. maybe not as much sunk cost as one might think. although it looks like they will use existing tunnel north of the route as a maintenance area / train yard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway#1960s.E2....
> There's also clearly a market for a social network for teenagers separate from Facebook

Bebo failed at that.
That just shifts the problem, and encourages pretty awful behavior like abduction.
The farmland is over 7 million people away from the city.
It gets more eyeball time than television.
MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs
Early predictions by FiveThirtyEight and PEC are both way off
No, the EV tax credit never goes to Tesla it goes to the consumer. The figures also exclude the CARB ZEV credits.
I think a lot of botnet operators are also worried about their bots being "discovered" during sustained bandwidth attacks. Your average home user isn't going to notice their internet being weirdly slow for a couple of hours every few weeks, but a sustained DDoS will have people noticing and potentially discovering / cleaning their devices. ISPs might also take notice of the sustained outbound traffic volume, identify a pattern and contact customers.
Galois, several startups ...
take a look at python+flask and clojure+ring+compojure (and other tech too) before throwing your hat in the node ring. going with a more general-purpose language might serve you better down the road. javascript will limit you to web dev essentially -- which you want to do now, but what about 5 years from now, etc
That doesn't mean they build it twice, it reflects updated information based on materials availability or changing requirements or conditions being different from initial assumptions. Exactly the kind of problems that software people tend to claim as their own personal and unique kind of challenge. But all engineering efforts are subject to those kind of challenges.
dont forget about sponsored filters. should be a boon for sc. organic marketing. would bet this revenue surpasses sponsored stories. comparisons to fb and twitter are a little off. SC is more of a messaging service than social media

Evan Spiegel isn’t building the next Facebook or Twitter. To some that may be obvious, but it’s important to understand. That’s because Spiegel is driven by the idea that people are looking for alternatives to their curated Facebook and Instagram personas. It’s not a social site, it’s a communication app with a large dose of entertainment on the side.

if youre complaining about discoverabilty you just dont get it and thats OK

[1] http://www.recode.net/2016/5/9/11594144/evan-spiegel-snapcha...
Aka every Apple presentation ever. Those are filled to the brim with hyperbole ('magical', 'courageous', etc.) yet everyone somehow considers them the golden standard.
To be fair, they're 'just' following the Uber playbook of breaking the law in the most public way possible with the hope of changing the law in their favour
It's too bad people like you can't sue for millions because these stupid companies have such intolerable office environments. I can't think of anything else that's going to get these stupid companies to change their ways.

Things used to be a lot better 15+ years ago, when we had cubicles. It wasn't a panacea (since you could still hear your neighbors), but the cube farms I've worked in were much quieter than these idiotic open-plan offices, and it was so much easier to concentrate.
In the US we typically capitalize utility projects over long time periods, e.g. 30 years. When you pay your water bill the loan is added into the base payment before usage. We built electricity to virtually every home in the US, we could build fiber too.
I spent several years sharing a good-sized office with two other developers. We'd all worked together for some time, and got along really well. It worked out famously. Which means that something had to change... In this case it was the company growing and moving to a larger building which, despite its size, couldn't support the enclosed office space.
I think this is off topic for Hacker News. The subject matter is foreign to most of this site's users.
Google Glass and Spectacles are not even close to the same customer base. Google glass was a luxury beta product for techies with lots of disposable income. Spectacles are targeted towards 15-25yr olds. Google Glass users wanted to use the "future" of technology where as spectacles users want to Snap and share more.

I'm surprised their hasn't been nearly the same adverse reaction to spectacles as there was to glass. Maybe we haven't seen it yet as they haven't been released, but people hated the potential of Google Glass sharing pictures and videos of people without them knowing. Maybe we've changed as a culture enough in these few years.
and not just the form factor, the dial is just amazing. I am really curious how developers will exploit its functionality.
Holy cow that is some black and white reasoning.

It's illegal to run entire buildings as hotels 100% of the time on AirBnB for well argued local concerns.

This has nothing to do with a fascist deciding to ethnically cleanse an entire continent.

Me thinks Reddit is leaking.

Anyway, when it comes to government, I adopt a stance I think is in-line with what Sam Altman was saying about defeating Trump: the easiest solution is to support Hilary.

The government exists and isn't going anywhere any time soon. It's easier to accept that and find ways to make it work better. Rather than sit here and think private industry should be allowed to tear it asunder and make it a clusterfuck of an organization.

Look what happened when we did the former. Went to the Moon, invented the Internet.

Look what's happened in the 30+ years since we started tearing it apart.
Author here. Just to clarify, motive of this work is to ease curation, with the massive amount of content being created; but by no means an attempt at creativity or originality.

The work is not at all contradictory to Adorno, especially in the sense that it is explicitly trying to as non-reductionist as possible, and assuming notion of aesthetics is a dynamic entity .

There is a finite pattern in the dataset; more interesting, it has its interesting share of subtleties ( for example, as opposed to a image classification problems), and the technological question is whether we can capture these.

But there is another interesting data question. For our work, we curated our training set with the help of expert curators. But the dataset itself is a metamorphising entity; i.e. it is subject to revision ( it is a continuous process for us at the moment), but more interestingly it is a chance for open debate between our curators. In some sense, technology allow to codify and challenge our notion of aesthetics ( especially with the evolution in our training sets) at a given point of time.
Docker was originally built on top of LXC. It is now becoming more flexible with what is underneath, but there's a reason you need a VM running in the background on macOS to use Docker.

Docker is tool to interact with LXC (and hopefully other container systems).
Well, you can pick: full verifiability, full authentication, and anonymity-as-long-as-you-dont-share-your-vote-receipt, which might work in some settings where the social norm against something like vote buying is strong enough that the party that tried this would end up with more of its own voters deflecting than opposing voters selling their vote to them.

But there is one more problem: most verifiable voting protocols are fiendishly complex for the average voter to validate, specially if they need to keep in mind how to verify things in a way that is robust to their devices being compromised. If you were holding an election where only people with a crypto or security systems Ph.D. voted and where they would rather punch you in the face than sell you a vote for 1 million USD, then you could have very secure online voting. The real world is a little bit more complex than that... one of the main advantages of paper ballots is that the technology involved is quite widely understood.
As much as I love working from home or an office or whatever, team productivity is better when people who work together share physical space.

Define "team".

I fully believe that a co-located 5-9 person team in an open space can be a good thing.

I also fully believe that a co-located 20-30 person department composed of 4-6 teams, all in a single open space is a complete disaster.

And don't get me started on the travesty that is the new Facebook space.

To me, the perfect solution is neither individual offices nor open plans, but rather 5-9 person team spaces with floor-to-ceiling walls and a door, plus breakout rooms.
"Of 20 analysts covering the company, seven have a "sell" rating on the stock, four rate it "buy" or higher and nine have a "hold", according to Thomson Reuters data."

=== proof that something is very wrong with a world defined by speculators
Are the renters locals or out of towners? My (uninformed) impression was that AirBnB is more out of towners than long term locals. (I know a lot of folks who used it for business trips)
Remote resources are hard to defend but unlikely to be occupied by an enemy early, by conserving resources in a local protected area you have more accessible reserves when the main settlement is under siege later.
That is an irrelevant non-sequitur.

You brought it up.

You've been throwing random distractions at a misconstrued, simplified version of what I've said. It's clear that there is zero communication taking place, so I will not respond further.
Does wacom support HDR yet in any Cintiq? For a professional that might be enough to tip them towards this even if otherwise overpriced.
From what I gather, Estonia's is one of the better systems deployed, and it seems to have had a lot of thought put into its design. Nonetheless, it's insecure, if only because of the poor operational security of the people running it.
This can come back to haunt you bigtime. If I knew someone materially lied on their resume during the hiring process, I'd terminate them immediately.
Not with the same configuration you can't. An iMac comparable to the top of the line Surface Studio is 3399 vs 4199 for the Surface Studio. If we go for the 2999 Surface Studio, the comparable iMac is 2549.

So, yes, you can get two, even three iMacs for the price of a Surface Studio, but the specs will be nowhere near the same between the two.
It doesn't really matter what millions think Snapchat's valuation should be. The vast majority of shares bought at IPO will be from a relatively small number of institutional buyers capable of sophisticated financial analysis.
I'm passive and light user of Snapchat, because I'm following around just 40 people and sporadically use it for messaging. I was really enjoying the Snapchat stories, much more than the messaging. I actually think that the whole messaging experience on Snapchat is pretty poor.

Anyway the point is, that I used to have around 30 stories a day to watch before Instagram introduced their stories. Currently I'm around 10 a day and most people who are on Insta and Snapchat prefer Instagram.

Is that just me, or you see the same decline in usage of Snapchat stories?
Seriously Americans, you are all crazy. On one side you have people who think Earth is 6000 years old and on another this. Unbelievable.
> No-one wants to live next to a AirBnB. End of discussion.

Exactly.

AirBnB shows total disrespect.

I am sympathetic to those who want clean, low-cost places to stay when visiting NYC. According to Priceline there are $60 hotels/motels in Union City, NJ 15 mins away by transit from Times Square.
This doesn't seem to be working for me. The slider is not draggable. Hitting repay does nothing?
A significant portion is going to the panel and the stand, probably.
That was Twitter's playbook and I thought Twitter wasn't doing so well recently...I'm not saying massive amounts of users isn't valuable, but you still need to play it right.
Corruption is a super tough problem to deal with. Hopefully cutting into enough revenue streams will give enough of a foothold to begin to combat the gangs.
Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
>engineering a secure Internet voting system which maintains these attributes is a difficult problem.

It's not a hard problem, it's an _impossible_ problem.

If there's any security hole between the BIOS, CPU, firmware, OS, app, a state-sponsored attacker will get it.

The US got into air-gapped systems. You think China (or Russia, Iran, ISIS, Europe, Anonymous, you name it) won't break in?

And what do you do if you discover that there was external vote manipulation? Hold re-elections?

And how easy is it for someone to delete, say, a couple thousand votes in a strategic state? It's hard to physically do it without evidence and a conspiracy, but if a hacker (or a simple bug) gets in, all bets are off.

That's why the paper-trail is so important
Yes, that was quite confounding. My speculation now is that Kim turned over the emails to WikiLeaks and is trying to inform congressmen of a legal way to acquire the emails. If the emails are in fact released by WikiLeaks (that's a big if), and anyone tries to call BS, the legally-acquired copies could ensure the authenticity of the leak.

All of this is resting atop lots of speculation.
If they make more profit by selling more units at a lower price... then why don't they always just do that?
iMacs with a Cintiq certanly ARE NOT half the price of this. The Cintiq itself is very expensive.
The comment was stupid, and worded badly at that. Past tense would have been accurate. Maybe I should take these guidelines for forum comments as well, sometimes. My POV wasn't important, sorry.
H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before ‘Patient Zero’
How to Build Technology That Feels Like a Friend
But exception handling is flow control, by its very nature. So it's clearly a gray area and the right thing to do depends on the common idioms of the language you're using, the expected frequency of parsing failures, and (possibly) runtime performance concerns. In Java for example, the XML parser built into the standard library does throw exceptions for certain types of invalid input.
"4. They have been less interested in pleasing their manager than usual."

Thats not why people come to work.

Terrible article
I had a good experience with Google. The recruiter contacted me at every chance with updates about where things were. It took two months from first being contacted but after I had another offer they sped up the process, scheduling an in person interview two weeks out. After that it was still three weeks until I received an official offer. What probably made the biggest difference was having another offer on the table. It put more urgency on getting me through the process.
> The site has 225,000 users in the city, but only data from those who rent out their place is being sought, according to sources. That would affect only about 15,000 of New Yorkers.

> The legal strike comes just days after AirBnB CEO Brian Chesky tried to appease state lawmakers by agreeing that its users should collect the normal hotel occupancy tax and promising to work with pols to root out bad hosts.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/state-airbnb-articl...

The appropriate summary is: AG specifically wants information about people who actually owe hotel occupancy taxes. They aren't trolling for every AirBnB user.

The difference compared to your hypothetical examples is that merely visiting the sites doesn't necessarily constitute illegal behavior. Searching for "mega" in and of itself is not an illegal activity, just like how searching for "marijuana" is not illegal (especially now that certain states have legalized recreational use). The true analogy is asking the torrent trackers to release IP information for connections pertaining to a specific torrent.
Same problem. There has to be some deadline, so if you want to ensure compliance than you wait until the last minute and watch them until expiration.
Why would functions in a lisp-2 be more awkward than in a lisp-1?

PHP has been too long ago for me to understand your comparison.

Would you please explain it differently?
And when the next mirai bonnet is turned against the online voting infrastructure, what happens then? Or perhaps ISP hubs in specific areas are targeted to suppress entire groups of voters?

Not to mention, the ability to 'undo' a vote is only marginally helpful in preventing voter coercion or vote buying - it only changes the way it's done a bit.
I'm curious, why did the author use the word "celebrate"?
> It’s like wearing a sweatshirt with nothing but the word “Nike” on it

Which people currently PAY for the privilege of doing. I agree that the face feels a little more identity-usurping though.
But you can't compare Macbooks to $500 laptops. You need to compare them to ultrabooks like the XPS 13, where you'll see that the gap isn't so big.
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You know what we need? Some kind of website that lists companies and tells what kind of office environment they have, so that we can proactively look for companies that have the office layout we prefer.
This might sound hokey, but think of getting into consulting as phases of software releases.

During alpha get to know people and the problems they face that you can potentially help out with (at this point you haven’t started consulting yet), in beta you drop whatever you were doing before, or cut down your time commitment enough, and getting into consulting (or more likely freelancing, where you’re doing more grunt work than being an advisor or strategic partner), in gold master you’ve demonstrated enough value that you’re at least making more than what you were previously and not hemming and hawing for more work.

Don’t expect to start at gold master.
While thunderbolt isn't an Apple standard (it's Intels actually and HP laptops for example ship with it), the hardware on Thunderbolt that's actually compatible with Windows is rather rare and doesn't make all that much sense in comparison to just using USB 3.0
this is kind of a vulnerability developers wet dream, especially that graph...
Newsletter signups are such bullcrap. Especially the pop-over ones. They're the worst.
>most verifiable voting protocols are fiendishly complex for the average voter to validate

It's easy. You get a large screen "Thanks for voting, hope you trust us!"

When you use a SaaS, you have to trust the provider.
Wondering anyone who got accepted for an interview want to switch dates?

We signed up late for the interview and are currently scheduled for 11/2 but my co-founder will be out of town then. Anyone have a slot the following week that would want to switch? Mail me at mericsson@gmail.com thx!
Good catch. Guess someone in PR likes to use mac?
The FSF's definition of "free software" has been around for far less than the adjective free, and when some software is provided for no fee while being proprietary we're still stuck using the same word. How would you have wanted him to write that sentence? Insert "for no charge" or "gratis" everywhere?
I'm curious - what sketchier tendencies do you mean?
Congrats Chris, I knew you'd make it!
Most important of all, MongoDB doesn't support transactions. You have to
learn how to work with transactions, only then you can ditch them when working
with a database.

Then there is the age of each database. MongoDB is only a fraction Postgres'
time on the market, and Postgres is still alive and kicking. Even if you look
only for sexiness, the fact that Postgres is still nice and wanted thing is
important. Have you seen any HN posts about MongoDB lately? And about
Postgres? Food for thought.
The intent of my comment (which wasn't worded well) is that non-AirBnBing long-term residents or would-be residents (whether renting or owning) outnumber the hosters.
You can also vote in advance (in person), which overrides the e-vote
Also interesting to note, the comments.
In-ear headphones? All the benefits of passive noise cancellation without big hefty cans on your head.

I switched to them mainly to protect my hearing (I tend to listen to music on the bus or on airplanes where there's a lot of ambient noise, and with open-air buds I had to crank the volume) but they're also a godsend in the workplace when I really need to focus (and I have a private office).
How is a company with a market cap of $32 billion making a $20 million quarterly profit proof that something is wrong with people who think that company might be overvalued? Stock ratings are not about how a company is doing but about how a company is doing relative to its price.
Can anyone explain what exactly Workflowy is/does? I only see a login page.
The nomad[0] team was just discussing today how much effort to put into our rkt support[1] (our support for rkt lags behind our docker support).

So far we don't see a lot of evidence of our users taking rkt into production over Docker, but I'm very curious if there's a significant number of users like Julia looking to avoid running docker in production.

From a nomad developer standpoint, while building long command strings is a bit awkward compared to calling docker's API, it's quite easy to support new features and manually run generated commands to test our driver's behavior.

[0] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad

[1] https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/rkt.html