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The parent post shouldn't be interpreted as dismissing the argument because it isn't interesting but because it has been beaten to death. It's the kind of argument that has been had from every meaningful angle and the programming community has, unless I'm wildly mistaken, settled on a few conclusions regarding it. Like a lot of things, one conclusion is simply that Lisp syntax being good, bad, easy or difficult to read comes down in part to preference of the individual. Of course there are other conclusions as well, but the point is that dwelling on the subject is generally not a productive use of time. It's so old and popular to discuss that very little of value comes from discussing it further, and repeating the arguments is both distracting and potentially even discouraging for some less experienced programmers.
downvoters; i am not endorsing his views, just explaining why he someone like him is resonating at this point in time.
I didn't realize Facebook did this. I feel like the spirit of the idea is from a good place, though, even its the implementation and messaging have flaws. The article has a bit of a "it's evil" slant that I'm not entirely sure I agree with.

That said, I'm on Linux, so it would be pretty tricky for me to fix this issue if it happened to me.
From the filing[1]:

Mozilla seeks review of the Order on the grounds that it violates federal law,
including, but not limited to, the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151
et seq., as amended, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and FCC
regulations promulgated thereunder; abdicates the FCC’s statutory mandates; is
arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion within the meaning of the
Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 701 et seq.; and is otherwise contrary to
law

1. https://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
> the pirates run away from me

Nice expression. Is it a pop culture reference I have missed?
> the idea is that by that time there will be so many transactions that the fees will fill that

This comes with its own scalability issues which are currently unsolved (and might well be unsolvable)

> also, if users are also miners they have an incentive to continue the BTC network for their own self benefit even if the fees were less.

This is equivalent to the users themselves paying fees, but much less secure, stable, and decentralized.
yes. Thank you.
> If the person justifying Lisp doesn't mind that the word 'cons' is terrible, why should I trust their aesthetic sense about anything?

This is not about aesthetics, unless you are arguing that the symbols should be replaced by square brackets or emoji.

And this has been tried before. S-Expressions are not the only way to express lisp. There are M-Expressions and many other notations. Even significant whitespace has been tried.

And yet people keep coming back to parentheses. Don't you think there is a reason for that?

Also: almost all other languages use the exact same convention for lists that Lisp uses (except they tend to use square brackets as their symbol).
How's the open source version of mist.io these days? I remember evaluating it (and cockpit, among others) for managing a small isolated network of about two dozen machines in early 2017 and it seemed that the open source release had been somewhat ignored and wasn't really working at that point.

Note that all of my work is on networks that are disconnected from the internet, so I ignore SaaS offerings or versions completely.
Fair warning, this video is pop science and therefore prone to many of its pitfalls, but when viewed in context I find Kurzgesagt[0] did an nice summary of this addiction theory.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
In the Midwest chicken is often $2 a pound. Vegetables vary a lot, but $3 a pound is about right for perishable stuff other than greens (which are more expensive). Carrots and onions and the like are way less than $3 a pound.
A little OT: The price for food in Germany are to my knowledge one of the lowest in the world compared to the average income.

This trend of food getting cheaper all the time has led to a real „industrialised“ agricultural sector in Germany. This effect is good for the consumer because an egg costs like 15 euro cents, but it is horrible for the environment and especially for the animals. You just can‘t produce so much cheap food without tremendous sacrifices.
What I didn't know until recently, is how juice and fruits make you take on more fat [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose#Cardiometabolic_disea...
If you spend 3 months body-building, you will know first-hand that this isn't true.
The problem is that FIRST and REST doesn't cover the whole idea of cons cells. That's why the old names still exist.

The Lisp practice for 40 years is to use FIRST, REST, LIST, APPEND, LIST*, ... when we speak about List Processing.

CONS, CAR and CDR are used when cons cells are used for things like trees, graphs and other data structures. It's an indicator that the code is very low-level and used for assembling other data structures from cons cells.
That's where copyleft (GPL-style) is better than BSD-style. Competitors can copy your product, but you can copy back. You presumably have some first-mover advantage in an existing userbase, so you can improve your product and retain those users + gain more. If you went with a BSD license and the competitor stayed closed you'd be up the creek.
I have my own way of tracking trending repos.

I use this url:

https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=monthly

Then I use tabsnooze, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia...

to go to that page once a month

works for me
I don't think access to raw calories is the problem here, given that we're talking about people being _overweight_. Broccoli provides considerably more satiety per calorie than Doritos, to say nothing of the difference in healthfulness.
"Like - it's 2018 and people are still using 'cdr' and 'cons'"

Like they're really not. "first" and "rest" work just as well as car and cdr.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29907440/difference-betw...

"[edited to be less abrasive]"

Keep editing.
I can't feed yourself on onions. And diet based on rice and potatos is not all that better for you. And you have to know hoe to prepare these so that they are remotely tasty.
I would fall into this category. I am 5'11", weighing 220lbs, which equates to a BMI of 30.7. My hobby is powerlifting, 1,300 lbs total.

I have a clean diet, but do eat a heavy animal fat diet. Though all my meat comes from a local small farm e.g., I was able to watch the pig grow from a baby to right before it was slaughtered. I saw them feed the pigs (6 in total) 15 gallons of goats milk etc...

The beef I got was done a similar matter but a slightly larger farm - which was grass finished. While I eat a meat heavy diet, I feel great, the best I have in my entire life (I am 32 years old).

I also tested my cardio recently via swimming and I was able to swim 500 yards in 11 minutes. Not breaking records but felt good enough. Though I did notice swimming is more form and I basically muscle my way through the water i.e., I don't have good swim form.

Could I loose some weight? I am certain I could and probably be a little healthier. However, the feeling of being strong is incredible and I don't wish to give that up.
I don't know what arguments Mozilla is planning on using in this suit, but one could argue that the FCC is violating their mandate to promote competition in the broadband space.
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Idiocracy did a fantastic job of summarizing one aspect. Unfortunately we don't have an equally memorable option to cover the other aspects.

Idiocracy assumes not just more education = fewer kids = more wealth, but also more kids = increased odds of reproduction and that these traits are reliable across generations.

We've proven more education -> fewer kids, and more wealth -> more education. So far as I know, we've not proven or disproven fewer kids -> more education, more education -> more wealth, and more kids -> increased net reproduction, at least not across enough generations.

Certainly these SEEM reasonable conclusions, and some have only been proven in the short-term. It might be that more kids -> less wealth -> less education -> net loss of reproduction. e.g. having 12 kids does give you more chances to push your genes to later generations, but the odds for each kid to get to reproduce are not the same as if there were fewer kids. If that difference is big enough then too many kids is a losing strategy. (in agrarian economies children are a resource, but if children can't work, the odds of the entire families' genes passing on are reduced for every new child past a certain point)

Idiocracy also assumes that intelligence is highly hereditable and highly correlated to wealth - In reality that connection is far fuzzier (likely technically true, but at such a low degree that environmental factors can easily matter more)

Still though - it was an amazingly effective communication of a complex topic. And I'll admit that there are news stories I read that stir my hindbrain into hear the little "bloop" noises of adding to the family tree from that scene.
Sometimes the disease is the cure. (Those are some good running stats. Great going!)
The paper solution is not ridiculous, it's perfectly workable.

The electronic solution is the one where malicious actors can substitute key parts of the process and things may be vulnerable to attacks that nobody has thought of (Meltdown/Spectre passim).
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This.

I had a task to write a code generator from JSON to an internal language, and here lisp really showed its strength. It's just so convenient to first describe your data, then write a function to output a string representation of this data in another language and finally adding small functions and macros to make the DSL look beautiful. Took about three weeks from start to production, and already another developer who was new to lisps jumped in and wrote an extension to the generator.

I could've done this with other languages, especially looking at you OCaml and Haskell, but just grabbing lisp, getting results during the first days and having tremendous amount of fun made the deal.
FWIW, your comment is nearly content free: I suspect people may be down voting because there's little substance there pointing out the similarities and reasoning, particularly as a top-level comment.
Given that the Supreme Court has previously upheld both of the FCC’s classifications of broadband under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, first as an “information service” and then as a “telecommunications service” (when Wheeler reclassified it to impose net neutrality), there is no way that they will strike down a return to the “information service” classification.

By a legal doctrine known as “Chevron deference”, the courts defer to regulatory agencies in choosing between plausible interpretations of the law, instead of choosing an interpretation themselves. From the text of the Act, it is not clear what broadband internet service is. If a “telecommunications service”, it is subject to the very extensive Title II requirements including common carriage. So while the FCC classified it as an “information service” in the early 2000s, it reclassified it as a “telecommunications service” in 2015 in order to impose net neutrality. Both of these classifications were challenged in court and survived scrutiny. Now the FCC has gone back to the “information service” classification. There is no reason to think that the court has changed its mind on the reasonableness of either interpretation of the act, so any suits challenging this would need to allege some procedural deficiency in how the FCC promulgated the new regulation. The plaintiffs are not likely to prevail.
We applied and interviewed twice with Bitesnap/Bite AI but got feedback that they weren't sure if the market was big enough. Blame probably falls more on us and our ability to sell the vision though.
"My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB"

Apr 4, 2007

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
> By selecting for intelligence, we incidentally acquire a problem.

That is directly at odds with the analysis in the Grove et al. paper; the genetic basis of increased educational attainment is distinct from that associated with 'severe' autism.

I think this is a case of wanting to see patterns that aren't necessarily there; we'd like to see a nice even spectrum of behavior, with undesirable extremes at the ends. It's a nice reductive interpretation of complicated data. The problem is that it doesn't seem to fit. At least so far; genomic studies are very useful, especially as a starting point, but ultimately mechanistic explanations that generate testable genetic hypotheses are the gold standard for biology. And for good reason.

Still, given that what evidence exists does suggest a different framework, I'd be very hesitant to conclude that there is a trade-off.
But there are other protocols incoming too, like Swarm for Ethereum, Storj, etc. Some of them already available just like IPFS.

Not an apples-to-apples comparison—IPFS is the only one that’s an offline first, peer-to-peer, distributed versioned file system. Swarm is interesting but it’s for small storage for smart contracts; it’s not a general purpose, low-cost storage option for storing terabytes of data. You’re not going to take a snapshot of Wikipedia on it, for example: https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/

I doubt IPFS will automatically win this because it was the first to make a glorified BitTorrent client available via HTTP.

This statement doesn’t make sense—IPFS is designed to replace HTTP, not run on top of it. While it shares some similarities to BitTorrent like using a DHT for content addressing, it’s really a different thing.

They didn’t raise $257 million from their ICO and VCs to pay volunteers using consumer-grade equipment; they’re clearing looking to disrupt the cloud storage market: https://www.coindesk.com/257-million-filecoin-breaks-time-re...
I was curious so I checked the bread in my cupboard. The generic loaf of white bread has high fructose corn syrup, and the fancy whole wheat loaf has sugar. Both are pretty high up in the ingredient list.
My (potentially incorrect) impression was that the Common Agricultural Policy in Europe meant that the affordable food prices you get used to could just be the result of subsidies. So any country with different subsidies would have surprisingly high food prices and give you sticker shock, but that wouldn't really mean all that much, it's like the difference between paying for it in the store vs paying for it with taxes. Is this plausible?
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thats a good point.
Because introductory material tends to live long.

It is also used for non-list data structures.

Sometimes in CS education Lisp is/was used to teach new stuff, making sure that students were challenged beyond their comfort zones, for example by reinventing the basic machineries from a few abstract principles. Typically Lisp was not used as a programming language, but as a device to teach new ways to think about computation: algorithms, some basic data structures, control structures, functional programming, ... Today you'll see other langages in CS education, with other goals.

See SICP and others...
It also makes you substantially more physically attractive, which can be a welcome change or a nuisance, depending on your goals.

I found it somewhat offensive to learn firsthand how incredibly shallow people really are. Fit men are constantly flirted with by women, unfit, not so much.

It's obvious in hindsight, and doesn't really bother me anymore.
That's what's usually known as risk. They invested in an asset to provide their livelihood, that form of income has a set of risks associated with it, just like having a job carries a risk of losing it or how investing in securities carries its own risk.

How much are we willing to protect the investor from risk, in this particular case, at the potential expense of a tenant's ability to have shelter? Obviously we need some form of balance but the finer details of it are wildly arguable.
Do companies typically announce an IPO on a Friday, right before market close?
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The regulatory process requires agencies to make a reasonable effort to explain their decisions and to consider all stakeholders and relevant counter-arguments. This is codified in the Administrative Procedure Act.

Ultimately, the most relevant flaw in the FCC’s decision may come down to the following:

Broadband has to be defined as either an information service or telecommunications service. The first is “the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information,” while the second is “the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.”

I’ll let you take a guess here and just say that to repeal net neutrality, the FCC had to engage in some rather weird semantic gymnastics to arrive at the answer it wanted. That may not hold up in court.
Rant: I see this in the Bay Area all the time. On many freeways, the fast lane is also the carpool/HOV lane, at least during high-traffic times. The idea is that the government wants to encourage carpooling and/or low-emissions vehicles, therefore restricting the fast lane to such people would encourage such things.

But I often see people get in the fast lane not because they want to go faster than the adjacent lane, but rather because they have more than one person in the car and they just feel entitled to use the fast lane regardless of how fast they want to drive. Like, they don't understand the concept of lanes being related to speed, and are just thinking, "hey I'm a carpool, I get to drive in the carpool lane!" or something.

I've seen people in 20-year-old Chrysler minivans packed full of kids go all the way over to the fast lane and proceed to drive 10 under the speed limit, followed by a parade of cars passing them on the right because WTF. I can only assume that they literally don't understand that if the other people in their lane are going faster than they are, they're supposed to move over to a slower lane. Or they just don't think about it at all. I have no idea.
>Where exactly am I suppose to lose 40 pounds from?

At your best shape you still had 5% lower you could go on your bodyfat, assuming you are male. It can be rather stricking, I used to be 208lbs and didn't feel like I was overweight at all. Got into endurance sport and dropped to as low as 165. (normally hover around 175 now that I'm not hardcore about it) I can look at pictures and see now where it went, but couldn't have imagined it before.

I think a lot of people in America suffer from skewed expectations. The kind of body mass that is healthy is perceived as sickly and unrealistic at this point. Yet it used to be common, or is common in other parts of the world.
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"... they handed him the Rubbermaid bins and Abigail. But Bachman was enraged when they declined to give back Zachary — they had sent him to live with a woman in the suburbs, and the judge had permitted her to keep him. "

God, that hurt. I actually do feel sorry for this man.
I would really hesitate to make sweeping generalizations comparing the risk-return profiles of different periods in history. This is like trying to summarize all uncertainty (risk) of the entire world at a point in time into a single number: futile and meaningless.
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Oh, I get it now. That completely passed over me because I'm familiar with the actual street.
... and salt, sugar and butter. I was surprised to learn that supermarket chicken and meat is routinely injected with salt water and other chemical in a process known as 'Plumping'....

Source: https://www.naturalnews.com/037153_food_industry_chicken_fil...
This is a big problem. Americans are eating poorly due to many different reasons. Easy ways for people to stay healthy is understanding your body a bit better and understanding your body composition, https://latechnews.org/results-understanding-body-compositio... , and what body composition is healthy for you. Another easy fix is to set SMART health goals that are attainable and realistic. https://latechnews.org/setting-smart-health-goals/
I believe Tesla's "Enhanced Autopilot" has additional cameras pointing backwards for this reason. They claim they were added to address the issue of cars approaching more quickly than the ultrasonic sensors are useful for, but I wonder if they would have found this biker too.
Border agents have no idea if data held on e-passports is authentic
Debit cards already have essentially zero fees (free for customer, 0.1-0.2%) for merchants.
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But even at half of the US average its still at a level considered epidemic.
Here's what's weird for me... my mom came from a traditional farm family - so she really knew how to cook. She was also a home economics teacher for many years, so she taught middle schoolers how to cook. While I remember vaguely being in the kitchen with her as a kid, I really don't remember her ever teaching me anything in particular. It certainly wasn't an every-day thing for me to help with meal prep. But, today I'm a really good cook and have done the majority of meal prep for my family (3 kids) both in and out of being in a two-adult household. I guess what I'm saying is -- I agree with you, but I also think that too many adults cop out on "I don't know how to cook!!!!" when it is actually not that hard to figure it out. Anyone can make a salad, throw some veggies in a wok, make some rice and beans, etc. The healthiest meals are in many cases the easiest to make, but somehow people think it is even easier to grab that frozen lasagna out of the freezer.
There are a couple different calculations you can use. Here's a good calculator I found. http://www.calculator.net/ideal-weight-calculator.html

It tells me that my correct weight according to BMI is anywhere from 118 to 159. Now, I know if I weight 159lbs, I'd be fat. 118 doesn't seem especially healthy to me either - I'm at my lowest weight ever right now, 128lb, and my clothes are hanging off me like I'm a skeleton. All the other calculations are telling me 134-138 are right for me, which matches my normal weight. I think I'm down right now because I've been weight training and not taking in enough extra calories to gain weight, but if I lose any more weight than this I'm gonna start chugging olive oil or something. No way am I going down to 118.
Understood. My point wasn't that a self-owned corporation would have liability, I was arguing that corporate personhood isn't a good example of legal trickery, since not only is that opinion pretty exclusive to non-law people, but it's totally been that way for the entire lives of every sitting judge.
That's exactly what I mean about proposing a notion that serves as a challenge to a point of view. I was pretty confident I was putting forward a statement that someone would take issue with, even if it's part of a sentiment I buy into.

Anyway, the original atoms and molecules of that first cell are long gone, yet here we are. In terms of qualifying one's semblance of self, I think infant amnesia also represents a significant developmental boundary, for "counting" as a self aware human. If you don't remember learning to walk, was it "you" that learned? It's a pretty fluid and blurry line for human existence.
nice work, Dropbox.