skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, we see there's a grouping, and might identify it when trying to create a cluster, but it's not as pervasive as the Lisp Family meme. When Clojure came out, it was advertised as "a Lisp" (not "Lisp", but "a Lisp"). When Go came out, it wasn't advertised as "an ALGOL", or "a curly brace language". What makes so many programmers want to associate only good qualities with this floaty abstraction of "Lisp" (that isn't simply Common Lisp) such that the arguments over how Lispy Clojure/Scheme/EmacsLisp/whatever inevitably keep happening, such that things can advertise as "a Lisp" and get attention despite not having some pretty core Common Lisp functionality? The only other language I see something similar to that is with Python. Go programmers say it's like programming Python but loads faster and with type security, Nim programmers say it's like programming Python but loads faster and with type security, I may have even heard something similar from an OCaml user once, but you look at either of them and they're both missing key Pythonic features.

Edit: In hindsight at the end of the day I should have been more careful with the "Scheme is not Lisp" (at least I didn't say "Scheme is not a Lisp") comment...I'm only continuing these threads because I read the original submission pretty close to when it was posted and back then I only knew a bit of SICP, tried enough Lisp to duplicate some SICP examples, and was frustrated with the Lisp-2 syntax along with what I perceived as a REPL freakout on any error so I put Lisp aside. It would have been helpful for someone to tell me "Scheme is not Lisp" back then and get me to actually explore all that Common Lisp has to offer.
Displays that are unreadable at 1x and unusable at 2x, around 130-180 DPI.
> a laptop that just works 90% of the time

That sounds horrible...
He would have to convince his wife who participated in it, so he can't lie about everything. To her, he can pretend two water types taste the same when really they don't, but he can't pretend the opposite.

He can also lie to himself with subconscious bias. The point of blinding is that you can suffer from this even if you're trying to be honest.
Yes, it's a chicken-and-egg problem. If there were plenty of good tech job opportunities in Nowheresville, USA, tech people would move there. If there were more tech people in Nowheresville, USA, companies would move there. Who has to act first to bootstrap the next tech hub?
He should just start a crypto coin. He'll get funded immediately.
Most disagree, hence the popularity of ORM's.
On the plus side, it should be exceptionally easy to identify since they probably don't have custom photos.
Worth noting that the particle physics community requires five sigma of confidence to consider a claim "legitimate", which is vastly higher than almost all other fields and has saved particle physics from making mistakes several times (like with the diphoton excess in 2015).
There's a yearly lottery pool based on who guesses closest to the time when the Nenana ice jam breaks up. The tripod falling over signifies when the river's moving.

http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/
You stop too short. Ban all government. Then those who are already invested in the strongest companies win.

Rule by populism -- forget meritocracy or any notion of innovation.

Trump and his ilk don't have enough. They need more.
For anyone considering running linux this type of nickle-and-diming is more likely to push them over the edge than to stay with windows.

If you stay with windows you get more of this kind of thing, if you jump ship then you never have to worry again.
I enjoyed your write-up and learned a little while reading it.

I have one pointer: please don't condescend to "urbanites".

> You think you're holier than thou because you're not from rural Louisiana, how nice, but sorry we don't care at all.

You've internalized how some people have spoken to your relatives or you. The vast majority of non-rural people you have spoken to don't do this. Don't lump them in with that behavior. This anecdote is only meaningful to the most bigoted anti-country-folk person.

> Unlike urbanites this leads to rural youth learning much younger that old people have wisdom, or at least respectably interesting stories.

Again, there's no reason to believe that kids in Brooklyn or Staten Island that spent time with their grandma or uncle while their mom was at work don't appreciate the elderly. I think you have an idea of city folk that is shaped by young, unattached 20-somethings or upper-income transplant families without extended family. I don't think that's representative of cities made of mostly different people. You may have surrounded yourself in a bubble during your time in the city.

> Urbanites don't understand because they live without beauty, somehow. No one ever daydreamed about seeing the grease trap at McDonalds back by the overflowing dumpster on a crisp winter morning. Or watching the daily migration of the homeless as the wind blows trash past them down the street. Or inhaling diesel bus fumes on a hot summer afternoon.

This is where you go for crass insults. Sure, it's easy to find ugly places in a city. It's harder to find them in the country. But to claim that city folk just love Soviet architecture and don't appreciate green plants is just absurd. You can't deny that looking at a skyline from a distance is beautiful. You can't deny that most cities do incorporate greenery in their planning, that almost all have a picturesque river/lake/ocean view.

I would rather live in a rural area with space to breathe and unspoiled beauty. I think the rest of your post illustrated your point pretty well.
Yes, though a lot of them have 85th percentile speeds more than 5 mph above the speed limit. And they still have a tendency to randomly reduce the speed limit to 55 mph without any obvious difference in road design (Pennsylvania and Maryland for example). Also, a lot of those states only recently allowed speed limits above 65 mph (far more recently than 1995).

So you basically have a generation of motorists who grew up and spent a substantial portion of their driving years with highway speed limits that virtually no one complies with, and that it was okay to drive 5 to 10 mph above the speed limit. This attitude spread to other road types as well meaning that even appropriately posted speed limits (e.g., 25 mph residential streets) have a high degree of noncompliance.

It's going to take a while to undo the damage, but that's what happens when traffic control devices are effectively used to "cry wolf".

Edit: s/compliance)/noncompliance/
Take a look at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which uses a well-known billionaire's money for funding basic research in biology and neuroscience.
Do you have a source for that statistic?
Really? During the housing bubble a lot more money was bet on nonsense. During the first Internet bubble a lot of money was bet on nonsense. $30 billion is nothing for the purveyors of nonsense.
non-paywalled article here: http://outline.com/rsHPec (not my website)
Microsoft's hardware game seems to be finally picking up steam. They used to be a big step behind Apple (e.g. Zune), but now they seem to be finally competing and doing quite well on both price and quality. It will be interesting to see if they embrace selling hardware as a core source of revenue or continue to treat hardware as a way to suck customers into their ecosystem.

Microsoft is now decently involved with Linux and open source on many fronts. Certainly moreso than Apple. Macbooks are well supported by Linux in spite of Apple's wishes, not because of them. A lot of people love Apple hardware and work hard to build support for it.

Microsoft doesn't need to trouble themselves by selling Surfaces or Surface Laptops with linux pre-installed, but they could ensure that popular distros support their hardware well and are relatively well tested by release day (and publicize this, of course). This would allow them to steal some market share from Apple and Lenovo. The Linux laptop market probably isn't that huge but, like education users, it does cover a lot of people who might influence the purchases of others.

I'd be sorely tempted to buy one of these surface laptops because the hardware looks great. However, I'd have to hear some pretty glowing reviews of high compatibility to depart from a safer bet.
Essentially, it's riffing off of Youtube's ContentID system? The "might limit a seller selling their own product" problem is one of the issues with ContentID as well.
interesting idea, but i don't think this will solve the problem i'm describing.

the hypothetical person on aliexpress isn't really interested in selling on etsy, they're interested in copying something successful and selling it where they can maximize their profit (in this case, aliexpress).

it's basically the same problem that more established brands like ray-bans face (with cheap knockoffs), except because it's on a much smaller scale most buyers assume the worst (that the person is just buying on aliexpress and reselling on etsy).

i mean even amazon is facing this problem right now (with counterfeit goods), so one can only imagine how bad it is for a significantly smaller operation like etsy.

enforcing trademarks is difficult enough even within the US, and enforcing it globally is insanely difficult.
This should have happened sooner but it took longer than they expected to knit a pink slip.
I ran into this too, "want to play with docker, buy the pro upgrade license". It was one of the final straws for me.
Because lisp is good at anything? But especially alternative evaluation systems (of which theorem proving is one).

Because they took lisp and added types to it; via the ISWIM language document ("The Next 700 Programming Languages") which was based off of the original lisp.

Because the lisp language family is a formulation of lambda calculus and has first class functions, unlike any other language family at the time, and that is necessary for theorem proving that is based on lambda calculus.

Because they likely prototyped the system in a set of lisp macros before writing the language (all the authors knew lisp and had taught each other it).
man, this hits home. i just recently got a pullover made by "Nike Golf" at work. It's a nice pullover. It's listed at somewhere between $37.50 and $150 on Amazon.

The box it came in? The same box that I used to see stuff delivered to the 99 cent store across the street at my old apartment.

It's amazing what athlete endorsements can do for brand value:
Agreed. For me it's the battery - love my xps 13 except the stupid battery
Not in the US. The vast majority of US tap water is perfectly safe to drink. The only reason to filter it is taste.
Literally the first law?
This is why centralized marketplaces in general are, in my opinion, on the way out. In the future people with something to offer will be able to offer it without being routed through one-size-fits-all platforms who want to control your options for communication, payment, reputation, shipping, etc. in a "my way or the highway" attitude. If one takes this perspective, then Ebay, Taobao, and Etsy are all anachronisms, though Amazon has smartly enhanced delivery speeds by focusing on logistics and will therefore maintain relevance. Why can't I barter for goods? Why can't I route around Paypal, credit cards, or USD? In the future, these will be normal consumer decisions.
Like issues arising in most multiparty content aggregators, whether they're social networks or marketplaces, Etsy's seller situation reduces down to a discovery and reputation problem.

- How do you highlight "genuine" artisan products without some laborious process to inspect the seller?

- How do you allow new sellers to build the requisite reputation to be trusted as good and legit? How do you do this in a way so they don't get drowned out by more established sellers who have been around longer?

- How do you process incoming reviews to prevent voting rings and voting abuse, while nonetheless accumulating information on the seller's performance and trustworthiness?

These are difficult, inexact problems that can't be solved from a book and to the best we know, have to be trial-and-error tuned to the particular community in question. Much more so than anything solely technical, the way these problems are solved end up being the secret sauce behind communities, and similarly often responsible for their decline.
Perhaps "Where it's easy to sell goods, it's easy to sell counterfeit goods"?
N-gate.com on FOSDEM
As someone who has hired both males and females for junior and senior engineering positions at several companies, what you are saying is not the case.

The coding challenges and interviews are the same. The decisions of hiring committees I have been on have been actually in general weighted toward white men with experience more often than not, because many of the women I'm seeing are just out of school or with a little experience (which says good things about the future assuming they stick around).

However, I have seen race/gender used as the deciding factor between two candidates who are in all other ways equally excellent and suited for the role (that is, pick the candidate who is not a white male out of two whose skills and resumes and interview performance are equal).
I'm not seeing how your comment addresses my point. The neveragain.tech pledge does have a very vague term about "misuse of data that's illegal or unethical", but the majority of that pledge also refers very specifically to government overreach. It was in response to questions about if any of the companies would help Trump create a database of Muslims, and cites a variety of examples that all are about government abuses and overreaches that involved technology to implement.

While agree with the statement others have made that neveragain.tech has a stronger pledge, I still don't feel it has much to do with extremely unethical practices in the companies themselves so much as insisting those companies don't help the government with it's unethical practices. If an employer is reading these pledges and taking note, they're going to see that they should resist government actions to use their data, not that they should make any consideration how they use that data themselves.
One would presume that SMS and MMS messages get caught up in this too. I send an order of magnitude more texts than phone calls. The % of users caught up in the dragnet must certainly be smaller than your estimate.
Make better hardware and it's not a problem
Perhaps not surprisingly the two things a region can do to boost its economic vitality is to put in an airport and Internet infrastructure. I'm still waiting on the citylab report comparing similar economic zones with Google Fiber and those without.

The Internet so that you can work remotely, and a easy to use airport when you can't work remotely.
they mader sure to get rid of this option in the obama administration.

now it is first to file. I can just patent all those formats and troll everyone until a court finally decides to consider prior art correctly when someone finally bites the bullet on a defense instead of deal.
Did you settle on an air filter? The obviously scammy industry always turned me off every time I looked in to them.
I've put basically no work in marketing and no money in advertising yet I've got a lot of sales already in the last few years. I really hope they stick around a long time! eventually I want to take my shop seriously.
"Marx asked, where does profit come from, if all goods are exchanged at their value? The answer, Marx said, lies in the special commodity labour-power. The worker sells to the capitalist labour-power which embodies (let’s say) 5 hours; that is, the value of the worker’s means of subsistence amounts to 5 hours per day. But once he gets through the factory gates or the or the door, he finds that the working day is 8 hours. The worker therefore performs 3 hours of ‘surplus labour’ per day and this is manifest in 3 hours’ worth of surplus value accruing to the capitalist."

Steve Keen has a good chapter on this in his Debunking Economics (one of the best written parts of the book; the arguments in the rest are good, but the presentation is kind of spotty). He points out that this result follows from a bit of confusion in Marx's early works that is partially corrected in later ones.

The problem is the nature of value. This argument follows from Marx's original belief that the only "value" of an object was its exchange value: what the object can be bought or sold for.

Consider a drill press in a factory. The factory owner pays $X for the press, which spends its life in the factory until it is worn out; at the same time the exchange value depreciates to $0. This is a zero-sum situation: the drill press cannot add value to the products; it only transfers a portion of its value into the products. Therefore, the only source of excess value, profit, is the labor involved.

Keen points out that Marx later realized that objects have a "use value" as well as an "exchange value". This use value can be greater than the exchange value---a worker using a drill press is much more productive than a worker drilling holes by hand---and the excess use value allows the capital inputs to add excess value to the products, as well as the labor.

Keen says that by the time Marx came up with this new formulation, he was already wedded to the labor theory of value, so it got sort of buried and no later Marxist economist noticed it.
Businesses are not people and do not deserve the same freedoms granted to individuals.

When you give a private entity the right to trample on individual rights, the individual's rights are weakened.
I wonder why ASU. Aren't there geographically closer schools that have better engineering programs?
> Interestingly the Vietnamese, by contrast, are very much in to rare meats.

I blame the French.

Indochina happened.

The biggest evidence for this is Vietnamese word for beef is Bo. Which is a borrowed French word.

http://www.asian-central.com/stuffasianpeoplelike/2010/05/21...
i dunno, people like those centralized solutions because managing communication, payment, reputation, shipping, etc. are a huge pain in the ass.

i mean even if you look at major alternatives to etsy (like shopify), they still are "centralized" in that regard.

buyers also need some sort of discovery platform - even if it's just google, then google becomes the centralized platform, no?
It's not a random sample of 0.1% of calls, though. Rather, they're collecting all the call metadata of a small fraction of subscribers; the number of people targeted may be relatively small (though not small in absolute terms), but each person targeted has their privacy significantly invaded, as the NSA learns quite a lot about their life. And to be targeted, you only have to have once talked to someone for whom the NSA has a "reasonable suspicion" they might be involved in terrorism. No need to do anything suspicious yourself.
To be clear, I didn't say that's what patents are for (i.e. their purpose), but what they correct for, i.e. what they do in practice.

But I don't see that the two descriptions are different in practice. Patents incentivize publicly releasing an invention instead of keeping it a trade secret (or letting it languish). The problem this is solving is that ideas aren't valued by the market, only products. But society benefits from ideas independent of products. And so the solution is a system to put value on ideas, ergo patents. This meshes with my alternate description.
Glasswire seems quite good, though you have to buy it in order to get the basic "ask to connect" feature. I've been planning to try it since forever. Zonelarm is nice too (or at least it was when I used it years ago).
That's what Metro was supposed to be - a complete reimagining of Windows in the modern era, with a legacy Desktop mode if you really wanted it. But it turned out the legacy desktop mode was the only part of it the market actually wanted.somehow I don't think think not including the legacy mode would have made it any more successful.
Look at bandwidth.com for SIP trunking.

Edit: if I recall correctly from many years ago, this is who Twilio uses for their US telecom/CLEC interface.

Edit 2: yep, bandwidth.com now even competes against Twilio: https://getvoip.com/amp/blog/2016/06/01/twilio-alternatives/
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
I wouldn't say lattice tools are super helpful, I've spent more hours cursing icecube2 than I care to recall.
Managing Syscall Overhead with Go's Crypto/rand
Most of the good engineers are usually long gone. Before these layoffs happen, things tend to grind to a halt or move at a glacier pace internally.
Apparently the author is married to a water filter, but at least she's stylish.

> This experiment was inspired by an argument with my wife, a stylish but atrocious water filter, and the explosion of start-ups attempting to turn everything you purchase into a subscription service.
RSA is the usual example. Do you disagree with it?
Sure. Require a refundable deposit of $1000 (replace by some magic number) which is forfeited if you're caught selling mass produced junk. Other after-the-fact punitive measures can be in the contract you have to sign to get on the site.

Something along these lines must exist where legitimate sellers can live with it while the cost to the spammers must be unacceptable.
Thank you for the answers.
Valve has no more 'Half-Life' writers left
Every contemporary grocery store I've been to in the Northeast US has an artisanal cheese section... And I don't even live in a big city. It's not mixed in the with the "normal" cheeses though. My grocery store makes mozzarella in house too.
Do you also think the same say about gun control? Hate speech?
those quests aren't fun, and the "grind" is regarded as an antiquated game mechanic

The approach I'm working on for my game, is to allow the player to optimize a growing "economy." I personally find watching, guarding, and optimizing to be far more fun than grinding. There will be threats nipping at the edges of this infrastructure, or interdicting its transportation, however. Seeing those off will be one kind of "quest."
I looked into this, because a bracelet I bought for my wife looked great on Etsy, but when it arrived, it was obviously shitty chinese-knock-off quality

Here is the bracelet I bought as a gift, $52

https://www.etsy.com/transaction/1238204808

Here is the same fucking thing, on AliExpress for $6.52 a piece, or you can buy them in lots of 6 for $20.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/24k-Gold-Electroplated-Edge-...

fucking fuck.
True. The parent comment was specifically referring to off produce, but I think what you mentioned plays a big factor too.
The (former) CEO seemed like a tech guy at heart and I think he was the CTO before being promoted. I met him a couple times at hackathons around 2009 and he was definitely not a suit guy. I doubt it was just lip service.
SQL's just so much more flexible than the competing query languages, there's not a true alternative to it. One syntax does a decent job for transactional processing, key/value tables, heavily relational data, massive analytical processing, data warehousing, etc. It's pretty ugly, but it's flexible enough that you can get the job done even if you need to do something complex.
The numbers speak for themselves: these block buys paid for development of F9 and Antares plus their flights. ULA lost round 1 of the cargo contest and won 1/3 of the second cargo contest.
> "criminals will always find a way, no point in gun control"

You could partially refute this argument by claiming that gun control is hard to ignore or bypass (although not that hard, speaking as someone who knows a fair amount about fabrication and guns).

On the other hand, this argument ported over to Tor doesn't make any sense; if Tor intentionally cripples its functionality, criminals will move over to non-crippled solutions like I2P. The best you can hope for is to mildly and temporarily inconvenience criminals while really hurting innocent people who need Tor.