skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your NFL comparison is off by 2x, the numbers were for a single team. "What is the average score for one team in an NFL game?"
Indeed. If you use shared web hosting (like Bluehost) there are often hundreds of other websites running on the same server. It is trivial to write a script that runs with the permissions of the webserver to snoop other websites' files. Read the config files (wp-config.php in the case of Wordpress) and you can then access the database directly and wreak major havoc.
I hope that's a joke because the "free west" doesn't exist. Every country has their own disturbing rights violations.

Canada still runs religiously discriminated public schools in Ontario. Bill 101 in Quebec has been widely criticized as a violation of freedom of speech and freedom of language.

Britain has the right to remain silent, but your silence can be used against you in court. In addition, the truth isn't a defense against libel.

France has serious police abuse issues, to the point of torture in French prisons.

Germany's 202c essentially bans network penetration testing. Working with Metasploit could be a crime.

And so on and so forth...
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I'm sure you didn't mean it that way but that's not exactly the most sensitive way to handle things. I really wouldn't be drawing too many conclusions about your friend from his reaction to that. I'm pretty sure I'd never take money from someone in (or after) the kind of situation you describe.
Accurate tl;dr: Supreme Court says President's chosen SEC has discretionary power to remove members from a Sarbox-created accounting board for any reason; the prior restriction to remove members only for "good cause" was unconstitutional.

edit: changed "President/SEC" to "President's chosen SEC"; it does not appear they said the President has direct discretionary power to remove board members, even though the SEC's power was described in terms of executive/presidential powers.
That's a good question, actually.

Lisp macros need knowledge of the structure of the s-expression.

Certainly one can Church encode s-expressions and provide defmacro.

Gensym is trickier. Hygiene might be really challenging.

I might actually try that out.

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There are already casual variants with no goalie.

This variant is called "Richard" over here, it's played on a 5-football field(1), and you can't shoot from after the midfield (otherwise it would be far too easy).

The thing is, it's far less skill-challenging than having to beat a goalie.

If you've never played football/soccer, you can't know the thrill of having just that one chance (unless you're a striker), the frustration of missing it (more often than not), and the pure bliss of making it.

As a defender (most of the time) I'd say that football is more frustrating if you're a defender or goalie than as a forward, since you get so few chances to show off (and strikers are the heroes more often than not). As an example, the best player on the field for Uruguay's win over Korea was defensive midfielder Diego Pérez, but the most lauded player is striker Luis Suárez (which made two goals with a huge level of difficulty to be fair), since goals are so hard to come by.

(1): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-a-side_football
Sweet mother of jesus no. Engineers would gravitate towards a centrally controlled system in no time. Economics is not a control system, it's emerging behavior from independently acting agents (free market economics is, which I argue is the only morally defensible system). A UK (?) technology-oriented scientist build a computer-controlled economic system for some South-American country in the 1970's, complete with a Star Trek like control room. There was a revolution before it could be put to proper use though. I don't remember enough details to google it, anyone else who can dig up some links?
Whenever I read about this technique, I can't help but think of the sunglasses in They Live.
> Hey, maybe supposedly being able see Russia from her house really DOES give Ms. Palin foreign policy experience.

You do know that that's from SNL, not Palin. (Since you're suggesting, correctly, that one should go with data, it's curious that you used fiction as supporting evidence.)

Border state governors do negotiate with neighboring countries, just as other governors negotiate with neighboring states. Alaska mostly deals with Canada, but there's some stuff with Russia for the Bering Strait. (Palin's house isn't near the strait so she can't see Russia from her house.)
I tried to tell people this was coming. It was clear to me listening to Dean talk about IE9. He was, for the first time, strongly hinting at the fact that users would want to use IE not because of features, but because it ran the web the best.

I think MS made a smart call. They saw that the standards web was taking over. They couldn't stop it. So how do you sell Windows licenses in this new world? Be the best platform for the standards web. So now they're throwing all their eggs in this basket. It's the right move and I look forward to a new world when people actually say, "Use IE... no, seriously, use IE".
> That is just a strings on the screen. What is the internal in-memory representation of this?

user=> (class '(println 1))
clojure.lang.PersistentList

A PersistentList is effectively a cons cell.

> The pointers to functions and agruments, as is should be?

Effectively, yes. What would you expect to be able to do with this in a "real lisp" that you can't do in clojure?

> Btw, there was a link here to a blog-post from a jruby developer who argued that JVM is a crap for a dynamic languages (read: for anything except what it is) Why would you think it is perfect for a Lisp?

I don't. It is demonstrably good enough, though.

> <Further irrelevant JVM rantings>

Meh.
Since it's targeted specifically to blackboard drawings/diagrams, maybe it would be possible to vectorize the output
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I think it's actually a necessity specially for an open platform, imagine if a malicious app got loose and they couldn't do anything about it. It's a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation.
Yes but the upside to his method is you still have final control, as if you don't like one OID provider anymore you just change the redirect and it all keeps working exactly the same way.
> We can't possibly pay back the money we owe.

If the government were a person, economics might agree with you, but it's not. This is what fiscal conservatives fail to see. The government can hold debt so long, that, due to inflation, it's value will fall to the point where paying it off is trivial. This is not practical for persons that have a finite lifespan. Corporations also fall in this category, albeit to somewhat less of a degree. Investors often do not see justifiable corporate debt as a problem, but an indication that the executive team understands opportunity cost.
Actually, that's completely wrong.

As the law was prior to this decision, the SEC had to have good cause to remove someone from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The ruling was that requiring two levels of good cause between the President and the oversight board was unconstitutional, and now the SEC is able to remove oversight board members directly without requiring good cause. The logic is that this provides sufficient insulation from Presidential control, because the President still requires good cause to remove the SEC people who can remove oversight board members.

tl;dr: The SEC no longer requires good cause to remove oversight board members any more, and the President's power is essentially unchanged.
What are you arguing here?

The fact (well, I agree) that the US badly screwed up its first really major intervention in world affairs has little to do with the present day, unless you contend that we learned nothing from it (e.g. for WWII Unconditional Surrender and the occupation and nation building we did in Japan and West Germany).
Perfect; to my lisp startup file was just added:

(defconstant tau #.(* 2 pi))

Regarding adoption, I think it's worth pointing out that these sorts of conventions can and do shift within a generation. I recall quite clearly while growing up the convention for indicating years < and >= the year one [1] was B.C. and A.D. It seems like over the past few years we've definitively decided on B.C.E. and C.E. instead [2].

All it really takes to catch on is adoption by a handful of elementary school textbooks -- and those publishers have adopter much crazier things in the past. As the manifesto points out, this is distinctly pedagogically useful, so it doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility.

--

[1] Correction: Julian/Gregorian years begin with 1 A.D. (I still prefer the AD/BC convention, as the two identifiers have an equal number of characters.)

[2] I'll admit that my perception of prevalence here may be strongly influenced by the fact that Wikipedia has adopted this convention.
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So perhaps the next time Chinese hackers penetrate Google, they can brick every Android device on the way out.
Ask HN: Web based bookkeeping?
I'm looking for bookkeeping software for my new company. We're geographically distributed, so desktop software isn't really an option. We also generally hate Quickbooks. Are there other options? We currently use and love Harvest for time tracking/invoicing/estimating, but it's lacking as a full accounting tool. Same goes for Freshbooks. Is there anything besides QuickBooks Online?
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Here's detailed explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmgtW2Iw-kE
When you pay your authors your margins are closer to 45%.
I've been working on product development and "customer development" recently, and this has emphasized for me the differences they have in perspective. The first (engineering) is about features: how to implement something, what it needs, what would be the cleanest conceptual approach; the second (marketing) is about benefits: what those features mean to someone, is it useful, what can it do, what extra features are needed just to make it work (eg. an editor isn't just about editing: you also need to be able to save your work, even though saving isn't editing).

There's a distinction in this case that strikes me as similar: software for its own sake is abstract; software that has a useful application is not abstract. The question then becomes whether the patent as a whole is new and inventive. Just applying an abstract idea to a concrete problem isn't enough; the way it is applied has to be inventive.

In legal terms, I think this throws the burden of
patentability from "subject matter" to "novel and nonobvious" (Bilsky majority on Flook, emphasis added):

> unpatentable under §101, not because it contain[ed] a mathematical algorithm as one component, but because once that algorithm [wa]s assumed to be within the prior art, the application, considered as a whole, contain[ed] no patentable invention.

tl;dr you can't patent software, only its doing of something useful

EDIT btw, typo in title: s/Bilksi/Bilski/
No, it's "the answer to the ultimate question of" life, the universe, and everything. Also, the question is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" (so the answer's wrong anyway)
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His main theory is that poor people's utility function is flat.

The policy implications are more nuanced than he says. We should do one of two things: 1.) give the poor so much money that they get into the region with an upward sloping utility function, assuming such a region exists. 2.) Tax the poor, since taking some of their money will not make them worse off (what's one more bee sting?).

Mysteriously, he never mentions 2).
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I love this part the most -- "you’d do your homework first and then come to the table with - 35% of our [insert some key metric here] are caused by the lack of X functionality…"

Meetings would be so much more productive if everyone operated like this.
Well, he might just not be smart enough. Large financial institutions and many smaller hedge funds reap countless millions from the markets and much of this comes from proprietary trading (well, all of it in the case of hedge funds.) There's a massive brain-drain into financial institutions of many of our best and brightest, all in search of making a fortune by the time they're 30. So on the one hand you have top students from top institutions applying their considerable intellect and training into applying advanced mathematical methods against an extremely complex problem. On the other you have a guy who tinkers around himself hoping after hope that the amateur (for that is by definition what he is) attempts that he makes at beating the market are going to some day work out and make him his fortune.

Unfortunately the odds are stacked against you, and those are compounded by fact that you have little or no opportunity to employ any serious leverage.

"I would have probably, or at least possibly, been wealthy by other means by now". At _best_ "possibly", I think. At 25 that is an incredibly arrogant statement to make.
Would anybody here take the time to dispute a $0.25 charge? I wouldn't...

This also reminds me of something that I have wanted from credit card companies for a very very long time...imagine if there was a protocol for the CC companies to accept a record of not only the amount, but also the transaction that you made? Basically the CC machine sends a copy of the receipt to the card processor...

Carrying around paper receipts in my wallet for doing expense reports is a massive pain in the ass.
Suggestion: send email/tweet to @names in the board w/ OCR...
"somewhere" being primarily Microsoft, Adobe, and virus scanning applications, all of the above for large amounts of money and frequently purchased as necessities. The market for smaller desktop applications is pretty hard, and seems to mostly get along by the PC user-base being utterly massive, not by any ease-of-use.

Applications on OSX are a bit nicer, as there's rarely an install/uninstall process at all, and an enormous amount of the people I know with macs have bought several smaller applications for various minor needs. Nothing that can't be faked by text files / Excel, but a nicer interface makes a difference. Things like Sparkle also mean people update far more frequently. I don't see that much in my Windows-using friends, especially in the non-geek sectors. But OSX has a much smaller market share, and I have a feeling that a lot of the successes are due to things like MacHeist, pulling in $1/2 million+ over a couple days, which do make buying software fun. One can argue that they also dilute the money pool by devaluing them when not on sale, but the amount of effect that has is nebulous at best.
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I absolutely know what you mean, and there are many friends I would not do something like that with. But with this particular friend, it's okay. He won't perceive it in the same way as some other friends I have. It's like with some friends you can slap them on the ass and some you would not dream of it - bringing out this cash with this friend is not something strange or unusual considering the particular relationship we have.

I get what you mean though, but I know how I usually interact with this friend, and this is basically not such an unusual or insulting act.

You just have to trust that I can guage correctly our relationship. Perhaps I am wrong and in-fact, this was perceived wrong, but I believe not.
I think it's more like talking about etiquette offline: We've realized it's pretty futile in most contexts and it just brands you as "lame."
The last Bush+Republican Congress deficit was $100B and was on track to surpluses in the following years. (It had been decreasing for a couple of years by that point.)

Krugman complained bitterly.

The first Bush+Dem Congress deficit, before the current crisis, was significantly larger than $100B.

Krugman didn't make a peep.
Oh, I like that idea...need to look into OCR.

Thanks!
Bee stings is a bad analogy. It's more like trying to retain and adapt human dignity among exponentially more inefficient human processes. I agree with this article only insofar as multiple bee stings are exponentially more painful. But I disagree with it insofar as bee stings represent 'pain' instead of logistical nightmares and high risk situations, which is what poverty, the further down you go, increasingly involves.

I also disagree strongly that poverty leads to irrationality. That is a very dangerous and arrogant line of thinking -- and obviously reflects a lack of understanding with the rational choices poor people face.
You do know that the SNL thing was a riff on something she actually said, right?
I imagine that your friend doesn't think he could pay the $5000 back to you. He probably doesn't want to feel like a mooch.

I think a better way of approaching it would be to say that you weren't going to just give him money, but that you wanted to partner with him on it. You'll be the money guy, he can be the idea guy.
called him to lunch and brought out $5000 and I told him that if he can think of any idea at all for a business, I would invest these $5000 in his business

This is incredibly insulting, and it blows my mind that you could be so oblivious.
For a fairly liberal definition of "from scratch", of course...
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Well yeah, unless I'm misunderstanding, you were saying that 92m2 is not downsizing (at least not downsizing enough). So I said that 92m2 is at the bottom of 'normal' size apartments. I guess you can argue that 92m2 to be below average means that the average is too high, but it would seem that everyone else thinks that it's normal.
Maybe Facebook will kill Facebook. Like how Winamp killed Winamp. Winamp is so bloated now that I can't believe anyone still uses it. Maybe there will be so much Farmville and other garbage that its more trouble than its worth.
The Nexus is somewhat last-generation at this point (as odd as that is for a new device). It's all about IPS or Super AMOLED displays now. I'll being going Super AMOLED myself, but only for the software that comes on it.
I like sethg's rebuttal: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1468454
I concede the point. Though upon looking it up, she did make a similarly bogus statement.

I watched her first big address and thought that I remembered this statement from it, but it looks like in fact Tina Fey was really that convincing.
ASK HN: How do you motivate a lazy co-founder?
Hi, I'm new to this board.

I have a question about motivation. I'm running a mobile start-up and we just moved into our new offices. We started working on our spare time putting in time whenever it was available. Now, my co-founder and I are dedicated full time to the business and we've hired a couple of interns.

The problem however is that while I show up daily at 9 AM, my co-founder (the engineer, I'm the business guy) shows up every morning in the PM. We've had several discussions about inappropriate this is and how he's degrading office morale (mine and the intern's) by showing up so late every day. He stays late hours to try and compensate this tardiness, but it's still really poor presentation and incredibly unprofessional.

I have no recourse because we split the venture 50/50 (no vesting). If I want to continue on the project without him, he can block it. I've tried buying him out and he insists he's committed and will not sell under any circumstance. My only recourse is to quit and block him from taking the idea and running with it. Neither of these are admirable outcomes and I'd rather run the business as far as it can go with a lazy co-founder than end it in such an ugly fashion.

What I really want is a decent fucking co-founder who can show up at 9 (or 10 AM if he absolutely needs an extra hour of sleep) and be a profesional. Does any one have an idea on how to motivate him to do this?

Thanks,
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The growing part isn't, but the selling part can be seen that way in the right conditions. I agree, though, it isn't the example I would have chosen.
> The government can hold debt so long, that, due to inflation, it's value will fall to the point where paying it off is trivial.

Reread what he actually wrote instead of responding to a strawman. Pay particular attention to the words after "debts".

>>> We're going to do default the hard way by not paying our debts or we're going to default by inflation.

Note that inflation isn't free - it has huge costs that play out over a long time. Default's costs are suffered over a shorter period of time.

I favor default because one of two things happens afterwards - folks don't loan money when govt is borrwing dumb or folks donate money to govt (via providing loands that aren't paid back). Both are an improvement over the status quo, which the "inflation default", perpetuates.

Argentina has defaulted at least once in the last 100 years and folks still loan it money.
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For everyone saying that this is a pretty inconsequential ruling:

The ruling leaves it to Congress to re-establish the panel with tighter oversight, potentially setting up a new legislative fight that might sweep in other aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley.

via http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-28/sarbanes-oxley-a...

Note, however, that the original source seems to have been "corrected": http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-28/sarbanes-oxley-audi...
I think most people read 1) to educate themselves and 2) for pleasure. This describes me, although I probably read for 2) more than 1). Some people also read to appear intelligent, or so they have unusual things to lord over others, which might be a component of 1).

We don't always look up the definition immediately, but eventually we do and write it down and then we review the words later until we can remember it's definition.

Wow: that's far more discipline than I have. If I find a word I don't know, I usually look it up and write it in the margins of the book (if it belongs to me). It took about six repetitions of looking up the word "candid" when I was a teenager for it to sink in.

One nice thing about looking things up is that eventually the words stick and you no longer have to look up very many, unless they're technical.
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Interesting how people equate "I don't like x" with "x is wrong"... If that's the definition of "wrong" that people use in discussions, I see why science has such a hard time getting through to the public.
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