skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was simply that Rich built Clojure to solve his own problems, not to coddle beginners. Beginners are the lowest common denominator not because they are stupid but because they are inexperienced, by definition.

> Moreover, the more senior you are, the more you begin to appreciate clear precise error messages that directly point to the problem.

Hopefully the more senior you are, the less you encounter errors in the first place.

> There's only so much brainpower, and I'd rather spend it on solving a problem, and not on figuring out/memorizing yet another cryptic error message.

And I'm saying that's not the Clojure experience once you're up and rolling. You iterate over program construction in small manageable chunks, with immediate feedback from an editor jacked into a cider repl, and your repl experiments evolve into long-standing tests.

Also, even if the Clojure language doesn't necessarily cater to the beginner, the Clojure community definitely does. There are constant efforts to evolve better docs, extend tooling, and build user groups that reach out to beginners.
Mainly what it will likely be used for is similar to how cell phone tower data is used today. It gives you a list of people in an area at a given time, which you can correlate with other information like whether they are there often or out of habit, and whether they are breaking a routine.

Add ALPR camera data, and a public records graph, and using those selectors against other areas means you can narrow a list of suspects fairly quickly.

Arguably, surveillance merely polarizes crime instead of reducing it, where if good people are too worried about the consequences of defending themselves, it creates an effective %100 success rate for committing crimes and an insignificant chance of eventual charges - there is little disincentive to to criminals becoming super aggressive.

London is already the most surveiled city in the western world, and yet still notorious for violent street crime. Adding facial recognition to the current regime of cell towers, ALPR, cameras at every corner, cab cameras, and public transit cameras, is meaningless.

What is most likely is that facial recognition will be used the way it is used everywhere else in the world - for political pacification, not crime reduction.
It's the total volume of the open bid orders.
I agree with her policy, but it’s clearly far too early to come up with any causations between economic growth and her immigration policy. Many of the new arrivals haven’t even taken up their first proper job
5 years old largely follow herd - thing becomes interesting the moment multiple other kids have it and cease to he interesting when other kids change interest.

They will start like things because admired adult claims to like them, they will start to hate food because adult or other kids said it is disgusting. If you praise kid during activity, they are significantly more likely to seek that activity later and if you yell at them they will hate the activity itself. Adults are much better at sorting these influences out.

You can easily manipulate pre schoolers to dislike things and while it is a bit harder to make them like things, it is still relatively easy.
It is already better for video search. I don't remember Google video search being that good.
That’s already given as one of the arguments in favour of it being affordable.
That sounded a little preachy!

I think the greatest value of meeting other people and cultivating friendships is that it provides a mirror that lets us learn more about our own selves, so it is worth doing so, from time to time, even if it makes us uncomfortable.

It is also important to stay away from [toxic people][1].

[1]: https://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-10things-8400.pdf
OpenBSD is not a FreeBSD fork.
Ah, so we’ve crossed from the “it’s impossible” to the “it was inevitable” stage of disruption :p
>why everything won't work is depressing

That's funny, because I find the Silicon Valley attitude of "no one knows how to do anything but us" equally depressing.

Tesla is a great example of this hubris.
The Demise of Nation States: Introducing the Nation as a Service (NaaS)
It would not surprise me if MOST successful things failed at first.
I think the movie Interstellar closely depicts how life on Earth may turn out. Climate change is never going to stop, humans except few just don't care. Instead they will try to create more machines which will try to use carbon engineering to reduce CO2(as one discussed few days back on HN). With less need for trees and more need to fulfill population demand, if this technology becomes successful, it can be a doomsday scenario for trees and land everywhere will slowly start to erode resulting in greater imbalance in the ecosystem and eventually worldwide famines. Add to that, thawning of permafrost will release large amount of methane along with bacteria which were inactive since ages and for which humans may have no cure.

Most of CO2 is absorbed by oceans, and humans may never be able to find a way to tame CO2 there, this will result in much faster melting of ice in Arctic and Antarctica than anticipated.

No, humans aren't going to find an alternative habitable planet anytime soon where they can travel.
Ask HN: What does it take to be part of the Chrome team for iOS?
I recently saw a job offer by Google for its Chrome app on iOS, and I wonder what it would take to be a part of that team.

I've been working as an iOS developer for the past few years for a big e-commerce company. Although I like my job I want something more, and I want to live in other countries.

What extra skills would an iOS developer need to be a part of the Chrome team?
Depends / it's source available AFAIK.

Some time ago I looked at this sort of thing (simple management + status GUI for a router), and pfsense & friends are just huge, bloated pieces of mess that I really don't want on critical infra. Securityrouter OTOH came across as one of the very few frontends actually designed for security (see their docs). (Also it doesn't include a the full B/S suite)

In the end I didn't choose any GUI and just put a Debian on a box. I don't really know any of the BSDs and it certainly wasn't worth more of my time to fool around with a small piece of infra that's going to be ignored >99.99 % of the time.
The true problem is time, at least in fields like CS where expensive instruments aren’t really needed to do research (not as much as other fields).

You need the freedom of time and being able to fully dedicate yourself towards a specific study if you want to make any real contribution.

And I’d say that academia is struggling at doing science nowadays also because you’re stuck doing all kinds of other things with your time rather than actual research.

It’s hard to tell what the right formula is for being a productive scientist and surely everybody’s free at doing it.

I have a feeling that something like Universal Basic Income would give this freedom of time to crowds that can lead towards more people doing science and hence more discoveries.
Tesla has been at this for fifteen years. The competition is coming, but it takes time.
There needs to be a corollary to Betteridge's law, to the effect of "It's a stupid question."

Tesla is not trying to reinvent the way cars are made. Car manufacturing lines already rely heavily on automation. What's notable about Tesla is that they have been trying to automate production to a higher degree than is typical for the industry.

Don't get me wrong here, this is a big deal, and it's caused Tesla some problems that they could have avoided. But "more automation" is not revolutionary and it's not reinvention.
Why you should not use Google Cloud
Nearly all vim plugins worth a damn come with documentation that integrates smoothly into vim's help system. That vim plugin developers care enough to write such documentation is a credit to vim's plugin culture.
"The reason they have is when the spam filter is run against anonymous-video.com it returns positive."

That's not a reason. It's an explanation that fails to provide cause.
As far as I can tell, that's what the people running the site want it to be. It's been a problem for years and years now and no action has been taken to stop it.
> coddle beginners
> stooping to the lowest common denominator

You keep saying that people are stupid. And since you keep iterating it, I believe this is the point you are making, not some speculation about what Rich Hickey does or does not.

> if the Clojure language doesn't necessarily cater to the beginner

A dev-frienndly language does not cater just to beginners. Everyone benefits.

> There are constant efforts to evolve better docs, extend tooling, and build user groups that reach out to beginners.

So, they do stoop to the lowest common denominator and coddle? Why can't Clojure?
Those dark corners need a healthy dose of napalm.
The first generation of migrants will mostly fail to get jobs[1] and become a burden on the welfare state.

1) https://www.ft.com/content/022de0a4-54f4-11e7-9fed-c19e27000...
The code that actually displays the content on the linked site is not third party - they're loading it from their own domain.

Also they do tell the user they need to enable scripting, or at least that's what Google Translate tells me "Oeps, je hebt JavaScript nodig voor deze website" means.
BP just bought a large charging company, while Tesla has suspended their program.

Honestly,how hard do you think it is for a gas station to provide chargers? It isn't rocket science.
You're absolutely right! It took years to replace a huge number of pipes while keeping a water system working, and those affected will suffer lead poisoning so long as they live.

I've seen a lot of "Flint still doesn't have clean water!" talking points in the past month or so. Without passing moral judgment, the talking point is not reflective of current reality.
Quora has a decent community of developers and computer scientists while offering great writing experience and content exposure for a blog platform, though its primary purpose is being a Q&A site. [0]

The code rendering and presentation on the site is also on par with what you'd expect from sites like Stack Exchange and ilk.

One downside however is the extremely low quality content on some topics (most, rather) that gives rise to hive mind and polarization, especially around sensitive subject matter.

[0] https://blog.quora.com/Introducing-Blogs-on-Quora
It's not magnetism, it's attractiveness to abusive people.

Some people don't really care what cause they get behind so long as they get to bully people and raise hell. They'd be anarchists, leftists, alt-right, whatever, so long as they get to beat up people and set things on fire.

This is not to say both political extremes are identical, but that certain people will latch on to any group that will tolerate their behaviour.
If this could broadtcast to a non-apple device, I’d buy it instantly. I do online tutoring. Dsmned hard to get a good whiteboard. They’re so easy to make that no one has a good business model, and most whiteboard companies go offline within a year or so.
14-year New York Times obituary writer takes a crack at her own epitaph
I think we all love stories about how a certain technique was applied in practice to reduce memory or speed complexity. You can even play with their intuitions, asking how much memory or time they can save by switching an algorithm. And then revealing the truth!
Diseases have evolutionary pressure to not wipe out their hosts. While it’s not impossible, I literally don’t expect anything that bad in a million years.
> it's source available AFAIK

AFAIK it is not.
I’m pursuing this route right now. Sure it has some downsides but like it’s insane how productive you can get when you actually devote 12 hrs a day to your research. A PhD student will have to go to meeting, teach classes, spend time commuting etc. I get 12 hrs a day of pure research.

That being said I’m far from wealthy.
I haven’t had an Audi, but I have had many BMWs and a VW (which, UI wise, is the same as an Audi). It’s not really close to a Tesla. The digital cockpit is OKAY, but the car still has 50 buttons and it’s buggy. The infotainment system resets itself all the time. Audio glitches with car play. It’s half assed and never updated like everything else with the auto industry these days.
>Certainly you don't need ack.vim, you could just ^z and do it the old fashioned way, but where is the utility in that?

Because ack.vim can't be piped into other tools. You can't, for example, limit your search to the last 50 files modified. Or only to executable files. You can't pipe the results into sed or make matching files world-readable. Sure, you could install ack.vim, slow down vim's startup and bloat your installation, or you could just hit ^z and use the unparalleled power of the Unix shell.

>How is that more in line with the unix philosophy than simply having vim shell out to those utilities for you?

Sometimes it's not. But vim has ! built in, you don't need plugins to run commands from it. I do it all the time.
Ohhh, really ? :)))
They are not. They’re not because they provide no guarantees; they’re just regular pointers.
Read again. He wants a $.25 paper bill, and then get rid of all coins.
Not formally in the Emacs sense, but you can of course have configuration only load depending on the filetype so you end up with different keybindings (or other settings) depending on what sort of file you're in.
Google would've fought back much more -- as it has in the past -- if it wouldn't have gotten into the "content business."

That's really the main leverage studios have over Google right now: "either remove the stuff we tell you or you'll no longer get access to the content you want from us."

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that MPAA's board seat on the W3C was sponsored by Google (and Netflix, maybe Microsoft, and a few others).
Hmm, I tried from Australia, and your home page did show up on a search for "polygraph" on Google, but you're result #164. There were other sites opposed to polygraphs ahead of you - Polygraph.com was on page 7, while there was a YouTube video at the top of page 2, and some NY Times & Smithsonian Magazine articles about "how to beat a polygraph test" on Page 3 and Page 8 respectively.

Supposedly the March algorithm update was about query relevance [1], and maybe your site just isn't the most relevant for a very general search like "polygraph". My site used to be on page 2 for "Photoshop Plugins", but after the March update it crashed to page 5 (according to Search Console). Since my site isn't about every Photoshop plugin, just the ones I make myself, perhaps that's fair.

I'd definitely recommend playing with the new Google Search Console Beta - you can do a search on the specific "polygraph" keyword, and it will show you what your site's Google rankings were for that keyword over the last 16 months. Click on Performance in the left menu, set Date to Last 16 Months, then add +New -> Queries -> Query Is Exactly -> polygraph. My guess is you'll see a big drop on March 7 / 9. Also worth checking to see what your Click-Through-Rate is.

[1] https://www.mariehaynes.com/march-9-2018-google-algorithm-up...
In the '70s, movies like Soylent Green depicted how people thought Earth may turn out: more and more people supported by limited resources, food riots, etc. e.g. China introduced the one child policy to head this off.

In the '80s, movies like War Games and The Day After depicted how people thought Earth may turn out: nuclear war triggered through Mutually Assured Destruction. (Source: I lived through the '80s.)

you get the idea.
Didnt read the article since it started with the word "NPM".
I always wanted my CS lecturers/professors to start with a business case and work backwards. For example, like, “Lets build an e-commerce site”. What are the tools we need here? What kind of database? How should we design the front end? What tools for front end? etc. etc.

I’m not sure about others but i would have found such an approach very involving. Instead i was taught chapter by chapter of preset text book syllabus followed by standardized exams.

I hope this helps:
XRP and the Federal Reserve’s delta hedge
That V4 they have. Quite a remarkable engine. No comparison to the piece of "space age" crap that was Zaporozetz's magnesium alloy V4.
Cool, so I’ll look for BMWs answer to today’s Tesla in 2028. I’ll just mark it down on my calendar.
Masks are often illegal except at halloween:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws
Of course I'm not saying anything like that. Just pointing out that the people who seem to be publicly talking about this the most also reject the use of "reasonable" as a synonym of "rational" [0] (LessWrong might be "fringe" to the general public, but is quite mainstream to people who are actually concerned about the topic of rationality).

It could be that some current academics use the word that way. I would be surprised though, I don't know why they would prefer the ambiguous "reasonable" to the established and well-defined term "rational" (I don't think this is the same as asking physicists to stop using "energy"). It's even in the Wikipedia entry for "Reason" [1]:

> The meaning of the word "reason" in senses such as "human reason" also overlaps to a large extent with "rationality" and the adjective of "reason" in philosophical contexts is normally "rational", rather than "reasoned" or "reasonable".

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/g28WWuaMLXNzAnR9v/rational-v...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason
ULBRICHT, ROSS W. V. UNITED STATES denied cert by Supreme Court [pdf]
The Muslim Brotherhood's Exploitation of Women – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online
While my first thought was Heaven's Gate.
This is silly. What is the great idea? A way to quickly connect and disconnect things?

Zippers may have failed early on. But that is going to be more about difficulty of making them than the idea failing. This is closer to saying computers failed see first because the machines of Babbage fight factually do anything useful.
How a Diablo expansion led to behind the scenes trouble
I track AWS pricing for a living. I’ve never yet seen a price for a released service increase; they have historically only gone down.

That said, the cost of the data itself is going to likely drive where you go. Porting functions to another provider is likely to be a challenge; each implementation has special unicorn warts to it.
Brakeman Static Analysis Security Scanner Is Now Under Creative Commons License
Facebook House Energy and Commerce Answers for the Record [pdf]
this just makes me wonder why we don't just pass in SQL on the API calls, ala graphql.
can you elaborate how that would work
OP would need to elaborate on why it would in the first place. Bald assertions need only be met with bald assertions, especially when those assertions have real world examples negating them.
I haven't, but had a chat with Zoltan on twitter (a dev on it). It does seem to be pretty good, and definitely would be a less drastic solution since it builds on top npm.
PfSense is very popular in the SMB market where there is little to no IT staff or budget but requirements beyond what can be satisfied with a home router.

PfSense is also popular as a firewall appliance in cloud deployments. Demand for running pfSense was one of the drivers for Microsoft to add FreeBSD support to Azure.
> You keep saying that people are stupid

I didn't say that, because I don't feel that way.

I think that you're doing it right as long as you're using a language that helps you be productive and brings you joy. Sounds like you're already good where you're at.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
>I don’t need to accept that the earth is flat to fight for increased government transparency (something flat earthers would be interested in)

can you show me anything (other than your most charitable interpretation of the realization of that political identity) that suggests this is what they want?

>I don’t need to deny climate change to find other benefits to promote more efficient energy use.

can you explain to me why we should operate this way? sure i can come up with all sorts of alternative explanations for why environmentally friendly energy sources are good (solar jobs blah blah blah) that might be more amenable to climate-change deniers but why does it have to be this way?

how about anti-vaxxers and the like? how about birthers? how about sovereign-citizens? how many different narratives do i need to construct in order to get buy-in for something that's rigorously verified and people are simply obdurate with respect to? is the reason that that's how it is now because certain groups have as much power as they do?

>I don’t need to change someone else’s beliefs to work towards mutually beneficial goals.

there are people with whom you do not have common cause. or maybe not you. but there are certainly peoples that are marginalized to such an extent that they do not have common cause with any in power. should they being playing these creative games as well?
Vim is one editing interface in the IDE that is UNIX.
I personally use no plugins [1]. Zero friction moving from host to host. Vim is a great text editor, not a great IDE. For anything more sophisticated I prefer just switching to something like VS Code (with Vim bindings of course).

[1] https://github.com/hoffa/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc
Snapchat's decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
Very slow and laggy on my phone.
> On the other hand, photos reviewed 2-3 times (.. become much more durable memories.

Alright, but your sentence is written as a fact, but the rest of what you wrote makes it sound like personal experience.
What? It is trivial to get hair and fingerprints from a prospective scapegoat.

In addition, given a sufficiently good looking honey trap, certain bodily fluids could be obtained from many men as well.

The whole "evidence" based system seems broken.
It is impossible for me to give you a search term that will be garunteed to show you this effect. Google tailors every search to each person too much.

It ends up feeling like you've been gas lit by Google when you report one situation and no one else can see it
How the Blog Broke the Web
Only for pain, not as a part of detox/treatment. Source: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/faq/prescriptions.htm#rx-...
Hahaha, “props”. Badamp-tssssh
I'm surprised how many people on HN has a problem with this ide...Engineers are trained to be pessimistic opportunists (for good reasons IMHO). The thought process is always This doesn't work > ask myself why it doesn't > prove my wrong and show me how it works. There are many foundational rules and laws that are easy to disprove especially when it comes to something mechanical. That's one of the beautiful thing of mechanical and manufacturing engineering. Knowledge from the past tend to be relevant for a good reason.
> That’s not true at all. I have built pretty big applications in clojure, and it’s been nothing but joy to use.

I'm happy for you but your experience doesn't invalidate my claim.

> clojure works very well for people with a little bit of experience and those who think things through before they write code.

All languages work well for people who think before they write code.

Clojure makes that harder than necessary, though, being dynamically typed.
I replaced all my bad phrasing with a pointer back to the commenter who referenced pfsense and others a clown projects. so true. bye
I disagree, everything is much simpler without React. I'm actually working on writing a tutorial for creating structured code for dynamic content with vanilla JS. With Ecmascript 6, a lot of advanced concepts has become much simpler and easier to read.
What would a platform for independent researchers (or potential collaborators!) look like?
> What are people doing with these things?

With Suricata, or with pfSense?

Suricata is used when you want to block internal clients that do something suspicious (like join a botnet), or to notice something unwanted (like using a banned application, such as dropbox).