skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that cornerstone. I'm also half Dutch and had an experience while living in Holland that made a big impression on me. A politician was giving a speech and there was a heckler in the crowd (something that was not common at the time, about 40 years ago). He ignored the first outburst, and the second, but after the third he turned to the guy and said "And your experience in making public policy is?" The guy had no answer and let the speech proceed.

So I agree with how Hacker News works, at least how you described it, that's been my experience as well and it's cool that you don't have to have a PhD in whatever to have an opinion about whatever. On the other hand, are we sure that there are not people here who are paid by Monsanto to push their agenda? I'm not saying that's the case here but I don't know. So I asked because it felt weird to me. I'll admit I was egged on a bit by some people who sent me private mail, they didn't want the down votes but they wanted to know as well. So I asked, down votes or no down votes, I'm not going to be defined by some pile of points (as much as I appreciate how they generally filter the content here pretty nicely).

On the personal history, is that really true? Because when I was talking about some stuff I've done here someone said I really ought to put my full name in my profile so people can go learn who I am and what I've done. So I did. I thought that was why you put your name in your profile. All I did was copy his name from his profile to duckduckgo and hit return. If doing that is a no-no that's news to me.
BLS says about 153 million Americans are currently working(1). Gallup says 52% of American Adults are invested in the stock market(2). There are about 235 million adult Americans. 52% of that is 122 million.

153 million laborers vs
122 million stockholders

Pretty close! And that's just stockholders. There are, of course, many other forms of capital.

1. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000

2. http://www.gallup.com/poll/190883/half-americans-own-stocks-...
I'm not much of a Pythonist, but I have been doing CL since before ANSI CL.

To me the thing that CL has that has yet to be matched by any other languages, REPL-based or not, static or not, is the amazing condition system and dynamic restarts for handling problems. For building and debugging systems this is an utterly amazing thing. It also allows composing exceptional conditions in a reasonable way.

Every other language I use (e.g., Clojure these days a lot) I constantly miss this amazing stack-walking ability and conditional restarts.

Every time I boot my old Symbolics computers and something happens and I get a GUI restart, I'm just amazed at what we have lost through two decades of non-CL living.
Go to south America.latin women are amazing. Feminine smile a lot good looking and full of flirt. Ofc you need to speak Spanish but it's easy to learn! 8)
>1. Individuals who date many people, breaking up if they find something non-optimal. These include minor things like, not cleaning up on occasion, or not liking something you do.

There's a lot of iPhone users who fit this profile:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/single-iphone-owners-dont-w...
It's not webfonts, I'm okay when a website is using a custom font to show me. It's fonts they assume I have on my local computer. They say "deja vu sans", "sans-serif" when I don't want them naming "deja vu sans" specifically.
Oh, to be clear. Just because I had intended it in one way, does not mean I was successful at it. I just didn't want to ninja edit a better wording under what others had already read. :)
I am almost exactly typical in hours of sleep and mix of sleep type to the aggregate. What's hidden is all the volatility in my sleep... In my last week, there is a range from 5.5 to 8.3 hours of sleep in a given night. The longest sleep nights don't necessarily follow the short sleep nights either, so it doesn't appear to be catch-up sleep. Weird body is weird.

Other interesting notes:

1. Women need an extra half hour?

2. People sleep less as they age?

3. "Generation Z" is what we're calling kids these days?
> the enthusiasm of the maintainers of easy to use Common Lisp projects seems likely to be shorter lived than Common Lisp

Not surprising, given that Common Lisp itself is pretty much immortal compared to the typical lifetime of things in our industry :).

That said, I know what you mean. I started with Lispbox years ago, and it was already feeling its age back then. I agree with your observation. Sadly, the commercial CL scene seems pretty weak - the two big players (Franz and LispWorks) seem to mostly keep to themselves and focus on the commercial tools they offer.
Convenience. If I move frequently, I don't have the time or desire to deal with listing stuff for sale, deal with people coming to look at it, deal with getting paid for it, deal with people trying to scam me, etc. Just open my browser, a couple of clicks and I'm done with it. If it costs me a couple of hundred dollars more over the year, I don't care. It's probably just background noise compared to my income and the convenience is worth it.
That is not a very nuanced definition of freedom and democracy.

The first UK prime minister was elected in 1721 and still serves at the pleasure of the monarch. The French Revolution started in 1789. And of course, the Declaration of Independence was issued in 1776.

Democracy and freedom in the West is a relatively recent phenomenon.

And looking over all of the slavery, colonialism, and wars; it is difficult to assert that freedom and democracy was a thing in the West in the 1800s.

Nevermind all of the genocide committed by the West in the 1900s.
I think the example gets bogged down in language features which obscures the conceptual idea.

Hence I think the example would best be illustrated using pseudocode, which would perhaps motivate a meaningful discussion of how language features make certain patterns more or less useful, and perhaps, zooming out, certain designs more or less easy to reason about.
You've embedded the idempotency into the protocol, which is nice, but doesn't get around the problems of not being able to do EOM. You also have the case where you sent a message and lost network connectivity before any ack could come back, resulting in you not knowing if your message arrived 0 or 1 times, which isn't surprising since that case is a constant on a network with anything less than 100% reliability.

That's not EOM, that's just the sensible workarounds to use in light of the fact EOM doesn't exist. Obviously a lot of protocols and applications use such things since the inability to have EOM in the real world has not rendered our entire network edifice impossible or useless in real life.
This is true and awesome.

To be fair, though, I run an nREPL TCP listener on my production servers too, so I can do the same thing with Clojure. :)
You are applying logic to politics, if that worked we wouldn't have problems.

We demand Iran disarm to shame them on the world stage as violators of non-proliferation treaties, and we only do this because they are our "enemy" if they weren't we would care. It cronyism and nepotism just on the scales of nations, and I don't think that can change for a while.
Brought tears to my eye that one.
Not gonna lie, I have no idea about any of that; I've only very recently become aware of the problem. But now I know where to start, or at least one possible place, and I thank you very kindly for that!
Hey, author of pdqsort here, the draft paper contains complexity proofs of the O(n log n) worst case and O(nk) best case with k distinct keys: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1-vl-dPgKm_T0Fxeno1a0lGT0...
Both standing and particularized harm are questions the court (properly) addressed in the context of the actual plaintiff (the public defender), not hypothetical plaintiffs that are situated differently.

There were also a whole host of other procedural issued cited in denying the appeal (including that it's an appeal, but the specific remedies claimed and the entities against whom they are claimed weren't argued properly in the trial court), in the non-exhaustive list of reasons for denial provided by the court.

Assuming the court isn't blatantly misrepresenting the procedural history, it looks like the plaintiff did, almost literally, everything possible wrong procedurally.

OTOH, I have to wonder if the intent isn't really to get the court to issue an order but to get headlines and media attention to force Alameda County to fix the problem.
This Online Lender Uses Data Analytics to Serve Borrowers Who Lack Credit Scores
Clearly not an applicable analogy, in this case.
Are you familiar with ICOs? You don't "easily charge USD" because all of them are held using crypto. Yes, some have used bitcoinsuisse to allow some to preorder their slots/amount using fiat, but that's the exception, not the norm.

Moreover charging fiat only prevents them from legally allowing US citizens to participate whereas using the blockchain, they really only have to "warn" US citizens that their participation is not allowed.

People have made a fuss for cashing out (e.g. Status was trying to cash out on a sizable chunk of ETH from their ICO, which led to a lot of angry ICO participants calling them out) in the past. It shows that they don't fundamentally have faith in the system if they're building an ERC20 token but they're selling ETH. No one minds them selling a bit for runway, but if you're liquidating your entire ICO amount, it'd be a huge red flag.

Give me some counterexamples if you'd like to disagree but I'm fairly convinced you're not too familiar with the landscape.
Yep, it's difficult to find fully furnished apartments in a number of cities, especially at a reasonable price. Oftentimes landlords will put significant premiums on apartments they have fully furnished and keep that margin for themselves. If you rent from someone like us, you don't have to pay that premium, and get the added benefit of picking what items you'd like.

We're also partnering with property managers and real estate cos in NYC to help them furnish their units. It seems to be resonating well with them to not have to pay thousands of dollars up front for furniture, and instead can make monthly once their rent checks come in. Helps them with cashflow.
Ask HN: Reading nothing vs. reading news vs. reading books, what do you do?
I've heard so much about this, how apparently reading is one of the key thing separating successful people from the not successful, that successful people just read a crap ton of pages each day, with some people doing it with news and business publications (ie warren buffetts and bill gatess 500 pages a day style), but ive also heard in podcasts where some entrepreneurs talk about a style where theyre like not doing any reading as a hobby and just focus on other ways to spend time? So im not sure whats like a good way to go about this, how do you guys tend to spend your time?
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According to the Constitution, land in cities is owned by the State; land in the rural and suburban areas is owned by the State or by collectives. (Constitution, art. 10.) Although individuals cannot privately own land, they may obtain transferable land-use rights for a number of years for a fee. There are a series of laws and regulations regulating the land-use rights and ownership of residential property, including: ...
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https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/03/chinese-law-on-private-own...

I am not an expert.
Demystifying Interviews – System Design
Thought Leader is just another way of saying "Some guy who wants to sell you something"

EDIT: In most cases
Fortunately, normally immediate constants are still 32-bit even if operating on 64-bit registers, so the cost is only the REX byte.
Hi @sillysaurus3, I'll bite.

Lumen looks interesting and I dug up some HN comments from over the years.

Any example apps or sample code anywhere?

What about host language access? I'd rather not give up using existing JS and Lua libraries.

I can see there's REPL, but is it possible to have dynamic evaluation while running inside web browser?

Have you used this inside Nginx's Lua module and/or OpenResty?

Why not Python as one target host language? Lists and hashmaps (dictionaries) are pretty prevalent there and I believe continuously developed Lisp dialect is still missing.

Thank you for this. I learned new things already.
An Algorithm Helps Protect Mars Curiosity's Wheels
What was covered:

- How to frame a brainstorming discussion

- How to do back of the envelope analysis

- How to use analysis to motivate your design choices

- How to implement clean, generic, extendable APIs

- How to think about when to dive deep and when to stay abstract
didn't know you need scratch space to work with S3 in lambda? What about something like s3fs/goofys?
I think we are addressing slightly different things. I wasn't specifically addressing the concern of one app, but what that implies (the service that aggregates ride providers). A service like that does mean a single app might yield good results in the majority of situations. That lessens the advantage Uber has. I was just noting that Uber might still be able to play that into an advantage for themselves, so while it might lessen the advantage, it wouldn't eliminate it, in that case (since Uber's app would always be at least as good in that scenario).
For me it was even worse, their mobile app's cache would bork fairly frequently, and the app would misbehave until I cleared it, and on android, it isn't exactly an accessible option, you have to go through layers of settings menus, scroll forever for the app you're looking for to finally clear it. Third time it happened, I cancelled my Safari account.

I want to like Safari as an option, but it's way too limited for me. Frankly I'm only buying 2-3 books a year now, mostly relying on technical articles or online documentation (bad as that may be). I may go through another burst reading 8-10 books over a summer again, but not at the moment.

Although this change doesn't affect me, I mostly bought print books via Amazon anyway, because I find digital copies harder to recall/work through.
The women in the South are generally far more religious and conservative. West-coast men might not be too interested in that stuff.

The "friendlier culture" of the South thing is a myth. They're not that friendly to people who don't fit their preferred mold.

Source: grew up in the South. There's a reason so many young people move out of the South as soon as they can.
> I'm sure the Gang would concur.

I'm pretty sure this is the case. I think that the ideas are great in producing a vocabulary for classes of structures within software architecture the way people creating a car can talk about gears, rotors, pistons, gaskets.

Whether or not you have the right rotor/gears/gasket/piston is up to the specific case. And sure some of those things may become like carburetors, and may become largely obsolete. But there is definitely a value in having a consistent vocabulary for things like "That box that controls the air-fuel-ratio mixture before it goes into the cylinder."
Improving institutional Bitcoin trading
You know, just today I was thinking about how positively Rockefeller Center has impacted my life.
I'm not a psychologist; but as near as I can tell, it's Bush Derangement Syndrome again, only with less logic. Bush established secret courts, secret prisons, and a torture program; Trump tried and failed to ban Muslims from the country, then ate well-done steak and two scoops of ice cream; so of course you're seeing people nostalgic for Bush and violently hostile to Trump.

What Trump said on the campaign trail was absolutely appalling, but people need to cool off unless he actually starts delivering on it -- and should figure out how to change the hearts of the large proportion of this country that's delighted by promises of Genghis Khan tactics. (I vividly remember talking with an ethnic Sicilian in Boston who couldn't imagine why an army wouldn't want to shoot enemy medics, so the problem's not unique to Appalachia.)
You can read all you'd like, you still have to take the action to be successful. (But knowledge is power)
I'm not really in the furniture rental demo, but I don't think it's exactly fair to compare the price points of high-quality furniture with what you'd pay for some particleboard abomination from IKEA. There is definitely a market for a service like this, but I think it's more a question of whether they can compete against the likes of Cort et al.

I agree that furniture rental is a slightly weird value prop though. People lease cars because most folks don't want to outlay $35-100k for a depreciating asset, or they want to change models so frequently that buying becomes unwieldy. Furniture is not nearly as expensive, however, and the rent-to-buy ratios are far less favorable.
Matresses are probably destroyed or recycled. A lot of states have regulations specifically addressing sale of used matresses.

Other furniture can harbor bedbugs of course, as well as other pests such as cockroaches. It's a risk. I'm not sure how it's dealt with.
Agree 100%. I suspect a lot of this came back to their investors demanding exponential growth.
I was unclear, sorry. The companies that I know that are paying millions are more concerned about copies of Matlab that they can give to their engineers (actual engineers that work on hardware, not Silicon Valley "engineers" that work on ads), of which they need hundreds to thousands, and they keep running out of copies to give to their employees.
> The heart of the statement is that he is denied standing on public interest grounds because they dug up a case law that effectively nullified public interest ground exception which comes from u.s. code.

Nope; while the court elected not to use it's discretion to allow public interest standing, there were a stack of other reasons for denial cited that would have meant denial even had the court exercised it's discretion to allow public interest standing. Which is why they didn't do it: no court willl exercise that kind of discretion unless the issue affected by that discretion is decisive.
> It wouldn't be stupendously difficult to take down a major transmission line or switchyard if you were determined.

It's actually ridiculously easy to take out power for large areas with a rifle - https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2016/09/26/jla-tho...

As for attacking the wind turbines, I would be much more worried about a malicious actor turning off the brakes during high winds -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucceQ3vS3zs
I once worked at a bourgeoning hosting provider who had one of the higher floors in a building that was condemned, but couldn't be torn down because it was home to a phone switching room that had been a part of the original 911, and the designers of technology then simply did not even imagine their systems being EOLed, so it turns out, no living or dead being knows how. I'm curious to know if that's still standing.

The freight elevator shaft had a shattered wooden freight elevator carriage at the bottom of it. We took the stairs.
What about this bed in Queen Size? (First piece I priced out)

https://rentfeather.com/collections/bedroom/products/dunham-...

https://www.wayfair.com/Zipcode%E2%84%A2-Design-Colby-Uphols...

Feather 3 month rental price: $207

Wayfair purchase price (including shipping): $201
From the perspective of a person trying to promote a side project. I would want to implement a schema that would maximize the exposure of my website.

However, there is microdata, RDFa, and JSON-LD. Which do I use? Then once I choose a specific schema, what are the critical elements I need to have?

Those are probable the two issues that confuse me the most.
Personally I think his approach here was really awful, but for this particular thing you could argue that the code is OK if used by one person, or a very tiny number of people, but if it were used by many people it'd be a big problem. There's a lot of things like that.
Not what you're asking but something similar to BE: https://github.com/travisb-ca/nitpick

Also, your be usage experience may depend on how you're using it. In-branch/separate-branch/without-vcs? As a single user, I use it outside vcs and am reasonably happy with it.
We stayed in Tallinn, Estonia w/ Hacker Paradise for a month in the summer of 2015.

Great experience - the tech scene there welcomed us with open arms. Got to meet some cool ex-Skype execs, and even did a fireside chat w/ the CIO of the country.

Would definitely recommend it as an up and coming tech city.

We wrote up our discussion with the Taavi, the CIO, here if you're interested -- it was fascinating to hear about how much more advanced they are technologically compared to other nations due to the young relative age of their country: http://www.hackerparadise.org/blog/2015/06/17/welcome-to-e-s...
> plenty of people who came out of their masters / PhD spouting stuff like this.

This is a good point, but I think it speaks more to the degradation of the PhD as a signal, due to universities disproportionately caring about graduation rates and pushing unqualified students through the system.
> One could even argue that the public defender's clients were affected

One could argue that, but then those clients, not the PD, should be bringing the suit.
I liked this gamedev-specific insight:

"It is also a mistake to think that Id’s games ride on technology alone.
DOOM and Quake aren’t just the minimum work required to make a 3d
and networking engine a game – they are the right game elements as well."

This can't be overstated. Minecraft was successful because it was a fun game, not just because it was new technology. (And say what you will about the implementation, but voxels were extremely rare until Minecraft.)

The key is to find a good game designer, or to become one yourself. Then defer to them on every aspect of the game. Even if you disagree with it, trust them. They're in charge of making it fun.
afaik, british control derived from a land lease. the lease ended per the time table in the lease. as such nobody was 'kicked out'.
> normal jurisdiction

What is this "normal jurisdiction" you speak of? The jurisdiction most people are in?

China, India, U.S.?

Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan?

Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia?

Mexico, Japan, Ethiopia?

Philippines, Egypt, Vietnam?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...
> Cort's main business is going after government and corporate relocation budgets. We are focused more heavily on the larger market, servicing consumers who are moving frequently (i.e. every year or so).

This might be the crux though; gov and corp relos are not cost sensitive, as they're coming out of a large org's budget. Individual consumers (your target market) are. An average relo package given to someone is ~$20k.

I'm definitely going to follow your org to see if the experiment is a success; best of luck!
Would you agree that the deliberate limits on participatory democracy imposed by Beijing are limiting the ability of the non-elite factions in society to redress these imbalances, or do you think, even with universal suffrage, the citizens of Hong Kong are too fractured to come up with solutions? (Similar to the current political climate in the US.)
> So what generates the to-do list when you're building out the tests (arguably the harder of the two tasks, when the tests drive the design).

I don't necessarily use tests as a todo list like gkop, but for me at least... my first tests usually come from acceptance criteria if available, or some sort of business requirements. They usually end up being my feature or integration tests.
That was my first thought... who is going into a country that will take well over half of any money made from a unicorn startup. The bar seems relatively low here too.

I'm not anti-tax, however I am against excessive taxes and encroachment. I don't feel that it's appropriate under any circumstances to tax more than half what anyone makes. As for "roads", that's what property, auto, and gas taxes are for.