skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ferengi badass approach is hilarious! (I really enjoyed it)

I also try to urge people when considering a cloud or product vendor that they could expand into your businesses sector and investors or the board could make a decision to avoid that vendor, you will then have to migrate not for technical architecture reasons, but for reasons well out of your control. For example lets say I made a job search application, built on Azure, when Microsoft bought Linkedin the CEO/board of my imaginary company might set out a directive to migrate off of Azure.

There are also legal reasons why someone might have to migrate off of a vendor's product, if the two companies get locked in to a lawsuit.

When designing these systems I think it is important and not always popular to consider different vendors or a self hosted solution with different hardware vendors. Perhaps more important advocate for an Open Source solution in order to help facilitate a potential migrations or other situations.
You can certainly deliver local software that uses a browser for display and has all the "eye candy" you want. It doesn't require a network connection at all.
Watt time is left
Why not fill the rail cars with batteries as the ballast?
Sure, but that doesn't mean you need to combine downloading and building.

You can just have the build say "foo-1.2 not found. Latest version is foo-1.1", and the developer can decide how to respond.
Reproducible Builds with NPM (And Why You Should Use Yarn Instead)
How is Google's own blogging platform still embedding flash videos?
Well, effective unions–those capable of overcoming the free rider problem–are banned, then. It's like banning all sports equipment but saying Baseball isn't banned, in that you can still get together and say you're playing baseball and go through some of the motions, kind-of, and perhaps even play some cup-ball and call it baseball.
This would be wonderful.
Yes: things were much harder for Solidarity, and it not only prevailed but helped break the Iron Curtain.
"Not only did Russell write back [about the proposed corrections to be made to Principia Mathematica], he was so impressed that he invited Pitts to study with him as a graduate student at Cambridge University in England. Pitts couldn’t oblige him, though — he was only 12 years old."
This. OpenStack seems to fit that role well.
How is women dealing with harassment different than men dealing with other men who are just assholes?

I've been in a number of companies where I've had to call out the behavior of a colleague with a manager because the alternative would have been knocking the guys teeth out. Nothing changes, except maybe a "talking to" by a manager or HR, and said asshole just presses against a different boundary.

I have also found that men organize into a natural hierarchy pretty quickly, where women can miss those social cues, (or disregard them completely) and that can be extremely disruptive to team cohesion.

Many women think nothing of finding the most powerful man in the organization they can and using him as a "friend" to undermine their direct manager. Male executives typically tell male versions of these climbers to get back in line, as it undermines the cohesion of their organizations. It's not like women are connecting with the most senior woman in the organization as a "friend," because those women got to where they were by not getting used as stepping stones.

Firing a woman for insubordination risks sexism liability, but we fire men for that all the time.

This is a more complex issue than just harassment and patriarchy and other bugbears. The workplace can change to accommodate women, but this complaint culture is anathema to doing business.
One part of the solution might come from using Nix;

The release engineering team has started using Nix in their build process. Once all dependencies are mapped in Nix it means you just need to install the tool itself and all the dependencies will get pulled automatically.

It doesn't solve porting to new arch and platforms (especially Windows) so it's still a good idea to keep the number of dependencies down. But on any amd64 Linux it should be fine.
Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun
NES Mini sells as many units in 30 days as Wii U in six months
Why is there a hiring challenge inside uber app source?
Thank you, it's mostly trying to figure out some good sources of companies. It's a broad industry in this sense, just need a proper path for juniors as myself.
>Is there a kind of walkthrough/tutorial about how to develop a little Lisp interpreter?

At least as many as there are TODO app examples for web frameworks...
Ask HN: Can AI crack down on fake reviews online?
There are tons of reviews online. Lot of people make their decisions reading these online reviews. There is no source of authentic review and a way to validate if the review is true or fabricated.

If AI can crack down on this i think it will do a great favor for the entire humanity.
Nice article. Check out Paul graham's The Roots of Lisp for a similar exploration in which he shows how to build the metacircular interpreter.

> John McCarthy wrote 6 easy things in machine code

It was actually Steve Russel, McCarthy's grad student, who had the idea of writing McCarthy's eval function in machine code.
In Rust, if-else is an expression, and there's no separate ternary operator.
I agree that I respect the suffragettes and even some of what FEMEN even does.

But what I meant is the "REAPECT ME" that leads to being "tolerated" rather than it being earned respect.

Should I take from this that what is being done today is likened to what suffragettes did back in the days of first wave feminism?
How long will it take to crack passwords stolen as Yahoo announced 14-12-2016?
> And this line stood out at me as being divorced from reality especially at a big company.
I get it that we mostly want companies to be like this but I think it's also obvious that they're not. They are primarily profit motivated and we're lucky if they don't pollute the environment or commit atrocities in the process.
You can look for smaller companies that do it, you can put it in your own company, but if you really felt Apple would be like that then it's being a little naive.

I do not disagree that this is true, but I would suggest that this also is not an acceptable status quo. Complacency doesn't help it, and the unfortunate reality is that most companies just want to get into a battle of wills with those who are targets of harassment rather than take the time to address the issue as they should be.

You are right that this seems to happen once you breach a certain threshold - I assume at that point legal gets more pre-emptive in its protection of the company and tries to divorce itself from the goings-on in Human Resource areas. Plus, as I said elsewhere in this discussion, finding and/or training managers to handle these issues in a fair way is not easy, nor is it easy to be the manager dealing with this situation.

But I don't think that complacency is the answer, and she's not wrong that in many countries, the employer does have an obligation to handle the events. Attributing the sensations to it I'm not sure I fully agree with, but many countries do require investigative procedures, which according to the article weren't really performed well by management at Apple.
“Dear Major Textbook Publisher”: A Rant
FL Studio has some really good randomize options with lots of different settings built into the piano roll.
As mentioned in this list, Ihaka and Gentleman's R implementation of S begain like this but quickly grew into a larger system. R's source code today is still full of lispisms.
I'm guessing they're shooting for a name assocation thing here, the same thing that Microsoft pulled off with SQL Server associating the generic term with a specific product.

However as others have said, searchability for that product name is awful and I'm not sure they're not a little late in the game to try this trick. Googling container linux at the moment and they're not even on the first page of results...

I've had a look at CoreOS in the past and it's interesting but very geared towards cloud/large deployments (e.g. by default there is no way to use a password to login after intallation, you need to use automation and setup an SSH key), makes it kind of hard to tinker with in a desktop env. though.
For me, at least, it's returning mostly links about LXC, which seems appropriate. As you mention, probably not good for the CoreOS brand.
XFCE Desktop Environment – A Linux Desktop Environment for Everyone
See now I disagree with that, when it comes to for example, podcast ads, I don't mind them. They're usually read by the host of the podcast, it's done in a very clear "this is an ad, this company is helping us make this thing," it's not an attempt at trickery, it's not a lie, it's just there. And it's over and done with and I'm %10,000 more likely to follow up on one of those products (not to mention they're usually pretty relevant to the audience of whatever podcast).

Advertising itself is not a bad thing, it's a critical part of any capitalist society. I just don't understand how we got to the point where seemingly every ad is as annoying as it could possibly be, that every ad company is just in a race to the bottom of "how can we be as intrusive and unsubtle as possible."
That's not different from having a bad leader ruling forever... That's torture. 1789 occured for a reason.
Support to interact with properties file, 1.0.3 released
Named Entity Classification at Booking.com
> This is a proof by construction that the language is computationally complete.

The definition of Turing completeness in the article is not correct. A language being able to execute programs written in itself is not a sufficient condition of Turing completenes. Trivial example: define a language with one pre-defined term, x, which is a routine that takes as input a string, checks if it's "x", and executes it if it is. The empty language is a counter-example as well, but that's cheating.

I'm also not sure if the use of the phrase "fixed point" is a misunderstanding of the definition of a fixed point or just an unfortunate use of a term that already has great significance in LISP.
Has Apple released patches for El Capitan?

I'm still using it instead of Sierra because of Karabiner but this could force me to upgrade.

That vulnerability seems to be a pretty obvious oversight. I remember hearing about DMA (in the context of Firewire) as an attack vector since people first started talking of Truecrypt and Filevault and scrubbing the memory seems obvious... It's worrying that this could have been overlooked by Apple's engineers.
Why Bitcoin's Rally Crushed Every Other Currency in 2016
The history of the democratic party leads me to believe you will be disappointed. We shall see.
HR works for the company. When you consider your moves keep in mind HR works for the company. You are not paying HR salaries. Get outside legal help and advice.
Things like this are a reason I unhesitatingly recommend that people stick with their OS's built in FDE:

1. FDE is extremely limited. This particular attack is a clever abuse of sleep/reboot cycles, but of course people intimately familiar with FDE know that if a laptop is sleeping but not shut down it's already perilously close to the boundary at which FDE breaks down. And, of course, once it's woken up and unlocked --- which every attacker who actually challenges FDE can arrange for, all bets are off.

2. When flaws like this are found, the OS vendors have much more recourse than third parties do, which is why this post concludes by saying that Macs are now the most secure laptop platform with respect to DMA attacks against FDE.

Use FDE! Enable it on all your machines! But try not to rely on it, and don't waste too much time optimizing it.
"This man did a sexist thing to curry favor with a woman. This other man did a sexist thing against her. Clearly, the woman must have been lying in one of the two scenarios."

You're an idiot dude. Linking to a wikipedia fallacy page lmao you're like a caricature.
> that was acquired by a competitor who wanted to drive in the boot heel

Why on earth would any company want to do that? Not doubting your story, looking for legitimate answers.
> Calling Apple one of the best engineering teams is little much, don't you think?

In a word, no.

Yes they are a huge company and make a lot of boneheaded technical decisions, not all of which can be blamed on management/marketing (their web services are behind the curve, as is a lot of user-facing software).

But at the same time a lot of their hardware work is amazing: their chip work, general hardware robustness, the fact that they are one of the largest phone mfrs with a unusually low hardware defect rate, and who has pulled some amazing rabbits out of hats (when the iPad was released its retail price was lower than the BOM of most alternatives). Their privacy engineering (secure enclave that protects your fingerprint data, determination to keep certain data in the terminal rather than the cloud) shows dedication and hard engineering. Though a lot of their apps are shambolic (iTunes, photos, etc) their drivers are typically quite solid and standards compliant (cough ignoring wifi, ahem), and Frankly they're willing to knife the baby (Windows suffers a lot due to their longstanding commitment to backwards compatibility).

Yes, you can legitimately complain that the OSX scheduler still sucks, network stack is slow, or you can roll your eyes that their marketing pronouncements are ludicrous and their vocal fans somewhat creepy. But yes, they have one of the best engineering teams.

Don't get hung up on they hype either way. It's like talking about Musk: fundamentally he's a complete bullshitter, but he did found a company that makes rockets fly into space. Apple are bullshitters, no question about it. But they also deliver.
The question is not who or if to fund, but how much. My question has to do with the sheer quantities of investment in Github and the obvious inefficiency and excess in that capital. They could have funded Github half as much, perhaps even less with an equal result in a "land grab" if that's what they really want. So I sense here something else is at play. There must be some investment metrics around invested capital and the sheer quantities of which that have something to do with valuations and expectations and nothing to do with how much capital the company really needs. Imagine you only need $20m and someone gives you $100m because the VCs say because the VCs say that's how much capital they need to deploy. What do you do with that "Extra" $80m? You waste it, that's what. Seems very inefficient, so there must be some other ends here.
Linux for Nebies: How to Install and Use Nano Text Editor
To be fair let's make a distinction between spam (scattershot bullshit emails that nobody has ever asked for) and actual marketed targeted advertising, which both my employer do (with double opt-in) and I myself respond to pretty regularly. In fact it got so bad I had to unsub from a few amazon emails because this time of year I'd see some silly thing in their email and be like "oh my mom would like one of those" and I racked up like $400 on my credit card over a week.

Those are two different distinct forms of marketing, one of which I have no issue with, other than my impending financial ruin.
>> Imagine most of your income comes from Adsense, how would you feel about revealing something as disturbing as google involved in a case of corruption in the european parliament?

This wouldn't happen because a news org would never recover the cost of an actual investigation from AdSense impressions.

And even if they did, 100+ other websites will just rehash the first paragraph, write a catchier headline, and come out with a positive ROI...and stay in business.
> prefer one language to unite us all

Its not a bad thing if that happens properly. But instead currently we have small number of 'elite' people who always prefer English over native language and we have large number of people we don't know how to read & write English. Since the output(business/knowledge/tech) of this 'elite' group almost always in English and by definition they are in control its not easy for person who don't know English to break loop. Its very easy for the person who know English to get the job compared to who don't.
One might say, just learn English and become the 'elite'! Well, learning English is not at all easy for a kid from rural background.
This initial barrier dividing among ourselves and now we now have invisible class system based on language. this is apparent if you visit any restaurants/supermarket in cities or just visit city outskirts.
My point is process of implementation of single language for all is very difficult.
Worth mentioning is that they also publish in english. Even if it's clearly a french politics oriented newspaper, they also have some pretty good articles on everything international.

https://www.mediapart.fr/en/english

(I'm not affiliated with Mediapart, I'm just a subscriber)
Yep I know. Rust although syntactically looks like an Algol [1] like language it actually barely is one :) . It is more akin to a ML language [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generational_list_of_programmi...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generational_list_of_programmi...
802.11ad Wi-Fi: How 60GHz wireless works–and should you use it?
Arbitrage System Scam or Legit
Simple, step-by-step derivation of Maybe and Free monads from first-principles
ReThink: An Effective Way to Prevent Cyberbullying in Adolescents [pdf]
> Let's go ahead and apply your logic to Pokemon Go: "It's an iPhone game named Pokemon Go".

You're missing some context here, as to someone who plays iPhone games the word 'Run' suggests that the game is an infinite runner[1]. So "an iPhone game named Super Mario Run" does imply more information (that it's probably an infinite runner, which is not quite correct, but reasonably close) than your Pokemon Go version.

[1] see Sonic Runners, Rayman Run, etc.
there is no way on earth a full page interstitial/popup could suck less.
Did a firmware password prevent it? The same problem with FireWire was prevented by that (a decade ago)
Promote tools that are compatible across clouds.

The biggest contender is Kubernetes right now because Google is behind it. Anyone who adopts it is in a better position to move off of Amazon. Google has a better infrastructure and pricing but lags behind in terms of capabilities so that's their strategy.

The worst thing you could do is use Amazon Lambda. Pretty soon the platform will become the application. It ties all the Amazon product in a big ball of vendor lock-in.
What does that mean to the Ph.D. (= Doctor of Philosophy)?
This resignation is very bad for consumers. I'd hoped that Wheeler would stick it out and at least be present to bring consumer perspectives to the discussion and get consumer concerns on the record in commission meetings. But I can understand why he wouldn't personally want to finish out his term as a lame duck dissenter.
Honest question. Wouldn't you be better off constructing your own style architecture for an application so complex it requires React? I imagine using any prebuilt UI framework out of the box becomes restrictive with the necessity to constantly rewrite styles to match whatever the design team wants. I'm just curious to hear how teams use things like this.
Unions aren't much use in right to work states since the employer can simply fire all Union workers and hire non-union.
The other poster made a correct statement. F&A is calculated similarly to a sales tax, for example. If you request a dollar in direct costs, the research establishment gets an additional X% on top of that dollar (X being their negotiated F&A).
> How is women dealing with harassment different than men dealing with other men who are just assholes?

In general, white men get their work attacked, women/minorities get their identity attacked, that's the difference.
6 Key Attributes That Investors Look for in a CEO
Interesting idea, thanks for the link. Sadly it is unavailable to me, as I'm outside America though.
The Problem is not your product
As a degree holder in Philosophy, having naming my son Soren, I have to say I find that to be just a very negative statement about a great field of study. The vast amount of Philosophy out there has something well worth diving in and the execution could not be a person's style but the deep dive of thought is quite amazing.

Also if you don't know the significance of my son's name (Soren) I usually just nod my head nicely and walk away from philosophy "experts."
> If anything, the roman alphabet is simpler than the syllable based Devanagari.

Sure, until you need to figure out which of the four phonemes a letter corresponds to which is very difficult for foreign language learners of Hindi, as it can be for English. I am a native English speaker but I picked up Devanagari in a day or so because it's actually relatively consistent due to the phonetic syllabic nature.
I'd say that pulling out the xkcd when someone's "question" ends in "Pining for the days of desktop apps for everything isnt going to get you very far." is a bit strange.
when you patent something it's always in the public domain, that's the point of patents, except that the ownership isn't public domain just the knowledge of a particular tech. but yes, nothing guarantees that tech they had in the pipeline isn't being stolen right now.

but if the details of a patent have been stolen the patents still have value, except for when the exact implementation of a patent can be circumvented due to access to plans.
Simple way too use equivalent translated string in Node.js
"This loss is a dramatic one for any business, our first example would need to gain 94 customers during this time just to see a chance of growth."
This. So many Growth hackers focus too much on growth via acquiring new customers, and do not care about keeping them, which is quite shortsighted.
No you're definitely not the only one. Material design is hideous.
> Compared to every other life form on Earth you are super intelligence. This super intelligence thing has already happened once.

You extrapolate the trend from one data point. There is no indication that we have some matyoshka type hierarchy of intelligence. It could well be binary, either intelligent or not. No reason so far to think otherwise.

> You can't beat chess in one move because mathematics does not allow it.

So what superintelligence can do that "ordinary" intelligence in right quantities couldn't? Something specific beyond theoretical grasp of "just" intelligent machine?
>There's no contradiction. Sexism can express itself both in putting women down and in putting women in a pedestal.

Since she didn't include a direct quote, or more detail, it's really difficult to say much about the supervisor jumping to her defense. It's clear that, in hindsight, she viewed it as sexist. However, a little more detail on what was said, or the nature of the situation would be helpful to understand it better.

It's not unusual at all, to me, for a supervisor to defend members of their team...and not automatically sexist, or even undesirable.
I wonder why lisp isn't as popular as say python for AI, ML, and stuff. I see these fields as having a strong academic tone, and it feels like racket or clojure could be bigger when it comes to that.
I'd agree with this. More constrained and directed gameplay has been a major reason I found a few recent remakes of my favorite classics disappointing. It's as if the entire game is now a tutorial, with enforced "balance" between choices and fewer significant degrees of freedom.
or skeleton crew and only make $100m profit for 10years before they finally die off.
John McCarthy: Artificial Intelligence – Thinking Allowed
I thought of Kroz immediately when I saw yesterday's Unscii submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13185932

http://pelulamu.net/unscii/