skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could understand involving police and courts when there's virtual currency involved, if that currency is related to real money.

But seriously? Sending police after people who enable players to teleport, have god mode and fly in a game???

That puts Rockstar and Take Two on my personal no buy list.
It's also possible and a sound idea, however I think that idea is filtered by Johnny Ive's "remove everything which is not strictly necessary" rule, and his love for clean designs and symmetry (which is an evolution of Sony design philosophy BTW).
Opera (presto) was snappy. In Vivaldi, there is a noticeable lag and the user interface written in Javascript simply doesn't measure up to a native one. The interface itself is rather nice, but the perception of latency ruins the overall experience, even on my PC with reasonably powerful specs.
The gaming mice are pretty nice, but like you said, they are not the same.
Acquiring absolute pitch in adulthood is difficult but possible
> Too many doctors have resigned that they have nothing to add in a world of advanced technology. They thoughtlessly order tests and thoughtlessly obey the results.

Thoughtlessly obeying is undoubtedly a sign of incompetence; a doctor must always use judgement based on patient's condition and not rely on a bunch of numbers, a doctor told me in my teens. However, ordering tech based tests is not thoughtless all the time, at least not with competent doctors. I mean, in this age of self diagnosing based on googling, a doctor not ordering such tests would be seen as incompetent, and even ignorant. Would a doctor risk his reputation, and possibly livelihood, just to prove a point, even when his spidey senses tells him there is nothing severe about the patient's condition when the patient insists on it, directly or indirectly? Only a House would do so. The writer is too eager to generalize for some reason.
Yes, email sent from gmail to non-gmail. I typically get ~25 spams/day originating from google (admittedly not all to the same destination address), but from time to time it jumps substantially.
The perfect average day
if this person with less evidence refutes the evidence of the other, who has more evidence? Who is to decide who's evidence is valid before the debate? if it's already invalidated, why even have the debate in the first place? If you want a debate all participants should have a chance to voice their views, regardless of what the other participants hold as opinions about these views. if something is poorly supprted or not is to be decided after the debate. so basing the voiced opinions on preconceived conclusions is actually not a good thing which is what you seem to be suggesting.
But there's no token required in your suggestion! Don't you understand that you really need a token? How should random people not interested in news articles at all realize 10x capital profits from this if there is no token to buy in a pre-ICO and then pump-and-dump on exchanges?
MIT has just announced a $1B plan to create a new college for AI
See also "How to write a great research paper" [0] by the great Simon Peyton Jones.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/wr...
The implication of your post is that Softbank do this on purpose for some reason but it might be that companies often fail to meet Softbank's growth projections.
Show HN: Google Inbox Reinvented
Regarding the discovery vs. invention question. It has indeed already been discussed within philosophy. Here are just two examples in philosophy of mathematics:
https://philpapers.org/rec/DETDIA-3
https://philpapers.org/rec/FINMDO
I miss variety in smartphone design.

Everything looks the same these days. Samsung and Apple endlessly copy each other and virtually every smartphone has the same phablet aesthetic now. I miss the variety in shapes, sizes, physical keyboards, gaming features, operating systems, etc.
> “But we also follow the rule of law in every country,”

No. you probably make a good effort to follow the letter of the law in the jurisdictions you work in. I'm sure you employ many talented lawyers to minimize your legal risks. However, the "rule of law" is a separate concept that your businesses obviously ignore.

If you respected everyone being ruled equally under laws (or law-like concepts in non-government situations), enforcement actions like closing accounts for would involve some type of due process where the accused has an opportunity to face the accusation, see and rebut any evidence, and make a reasonable defense. Closing accounts unilaterally by your edict while refusing to offer any explanation beyond mumbling vaguely about "TOS violations" is a clear example of being ruled by men, now laws.
That's the the thing - if it's a case of "play by our very specific, unambiguous and consistently applied rules" then I think most people would have no issue. However I know that Apple for example have kicked a few apps off the App Store after they made their first party replacements. And while I have no first-hand experience with Android, a friend of mine has been grousing about some Google Play store ranking or recommendation changes (I don't know exactly what it was) within the last few months that decimated his income overnight. These stories pop up relatively frequently on HN, and I'm sure you'll have seen them if you've been around for a while.

The issue is that you can find yourself completely kicked off (literally or figuratively) a platform with no recourse whatsoever even when you play by their rules. One day you have a business and an income, the next you don't.
Move to Tokyo!
You raise interesting history and it's a good thing to see the perspective as you've given.

I don't know if Common Lisp got left behind or just took a completely different path. From my perspective, it got broken with its macro system decisions, it dynamic/static environment decisions and its namespace decisions. It created too many second class citizens within the language which means that you have to know far more than you should in understanding any part of the programs you are looking at.

Every choice a language designer makes affects what the language will do in terms of programmer productivity, not only for the original developers of programs using that language, but also for all those who come later when maintaining or extending those programs.

I have come to the conclusion that a language can be a help when writing the original program and become a hindrance when you need to change that program for any reason. It is here that the detailed documentation covering all the design criteria and coding decisions, algorithm choices, etc, become more important than the language you may choose.

Both together will enable future generations to build upon what has been done.

All the points that you have highlighted above are important, but the underlying disincentive to provide full and adequately detailed documentation will work against community growth. No less today than in the centuries past is the hiding away of knowledge where individuals are not willing to pass on the critical pieces unless you are a part of the pack or do not think it is important enough to write down because it is obviously obvious.

To understand a piece of Lisp code, one has to know what the special forms and how they interact, what the macros being used are and what code they are generating and what the various symbols are hiding in terms of their SPECIALness might be. These things may help in writing the code, but they work against future programmers in modifying the code. Having had to maintain various code bases that I did not write in quite a variety of different languages, I have found that "trickily" written code can become a nightmare to bring about required changes. I have found that Lisp code writers seem to like writing "trickily" written code.

Now, that is only one person's perspective and someone else may find something completely different. That is not a problem as there are many tens of .... programmers in the world. Each one having a perspective on how to write good code.
It's been copied. My Dell XPS has it :)
Using Head Fake Questions to Achieve Your Career Goals
"Most of the race’s competitors had built automated cars, but Levandowski had constructed a self-driving motorcycle called Ghostrider—in part, he later admitted, because he hoped that its novelty would draw attention. Although Ghostrider performed rather pitifully in its début, breaking down a few feet from the starting line, in almost every other respect it was a success: the audacity of Levandowski’s creation, coupled with his talent for charming journalists, made him the competition’s star. The National Museum of American History acquired Ghostrider for its permanent collection, and in 2007 Levandowski—then twenty-seven years old, with only a master’s degree in engineering from U.C. Berkeley—was offered a job at Google worth millions of dollars."

Silicon valley in a nut shell folks. Completely disregard ethics and hey presto a few years down the line the total fraudster you hired turns out to have been unethical! Whodathunk!
I'm always surprised people are willing to give random developers that much control over their browser when installing extensions like that.

I've had so many things break because someone somewhere didn't think a request was valid enough and blocked it and it was put into a common blocklist. WebRTC, several fonts, first party analytics, even whole services like Google shopping were blocked entirely because "they are ads" or they were "trackers". We even had to modify an app which was using css modules one time because class names were compiled down to a hex encoded hash of the css properties, and any class names beginning with `ad` were blocked by EasyList at one point...

It is giving an uncomfortable amount of power to a very small amount of developers. And it ends up ruining efforts to avoid 3rd party analytics because not only are first party harder to implement and maintain in many cases, but they get blocked just the same for very innocuous reasons, and give worse insights in some ways.

Just look at the list of what EasyList considers "unacceptable data to gather" in first party analytics [0]. Things like the useragent, timezone, IP address, and language are considered "personal information" and should be blocked even in first party scripts with EasyList! IP address or useragent alone literally makes all first party tracking impossible...

[0] https://easylist.to/2011/08/31/what-is-acceptable-first-part...
What fraction of a percent is the market share in app installs?
Seems to me that the uptake has been picking up, in no small part to "Hacker News". Bear in mind that since Lisp programs get compiled to machine code, you might be using software written in it and not know it. And that's how it should be: high quality software should be small, fast, easy to install and the user shouldn't have to care what it's written in.
Hypervisor-Level Debugger based on Radare2/LibVMI, using VMIIO and debug plugins
What do you mean by 'beauty of hash tree'? If you are worried about FF merge, you might be right but no-ff is there as best practice for most of the teams so nothing is lost.
I did some work at my previous job building a slot machine game in Phaser 2. I'd never done game dev prior to this but found it really simple to pick up.

From the knowledge I gained in this, I was able to make a simple infinite scrolling game, package it up with cocoon and release it into the iOS and Android stores all within a day from my bed on a Sunday. It wasn't the best game ever but amazing to be able to get something out there so fast (I am a JS dev)

I've not done any game dev since but may use this jam as an excuse to take a stab at Phaser 3
3.3" display. Hmmm a bit smaller than iPhone 4?

Being used to big phones like those Galaxy Note series (yes I use them a lot for taking notes and reading ebooks), I guess this won't be my main phone.

And too bad it's locked to Verizon, yes?
I live in Southeast Asia...
I agree 'code' refers to more than just programming languages, but that's how some people use the word.
Simple, ad/tracking-free websites as the gold standard for the web.

Basic HTML, maybe a little bit of CSS and some rudimentary JS for forms and such. Hell, even good old frames. The frontier days of personal web pages, with questionable design choices, full of personally chosen content. Anything relevant to whatever interests, from Amiga graphics to ornithology.

I miss the simple web of the 90s, where you could have an open contact form (or even your personal email address) and a guestbook on your webpage, without it getting instantly spammed to hell.

Maybe I should get around to making my own retro-style webpage, hand-coded for old times' sake.
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
next year
Yes, of course there is going to be a lapse in their due diligence at some point. It is just like the whole housing crisis in 08. Banks eventually were giving money to practically everyone and then we all know what happened in the end. As a VC, at some point, you need to get your money back plus a return to keep the fund going.
> I don't think even a complete understanding of the points of his book would be sufficient to understand shrdlu's code

That sounds like a point against the use of Lisp. There's certainly quite a lot of handwritten case-specific parsing code:

https://github.com/stuartpb/shrdlu/blob/master/gramar

Perhaps the bit which looks most lispish is the dictionary: https://github.com/stuartpb/shrdlu/blob/master/dictio

(It also looks like this was written on one of those ancient systems that didn't support lowercase and only allowed 6-character filenames)
The hours are, to some extent, imposed by the various medical governing bodies either directly or by artificially restricting the supply of doctors. These bodies are composed largely of doctors so the problem is to some extent self imposed. In the UK doctors are not governed by the working time directive because the UK negotiated an opt out so hospital doctors work ridiculous hours. As far as I can tell this problem does not exist to the same degree elsewhere in Europe.
TSA lays out plans to use facial recognition for domestic flights
> your argument that women aren't marginalized

No. My argument is that some women have used their privilege to falsely accuse men in the past and that assigning privilege based on social justice groupings is both stupid and immoral.

I literally cannot follow your reasoning at all. I’m the one saying privilege is both relative and context specific.

You seem to be trying to apply some strange kind of privilege averaging?
Whilst that's one part of the problem, the other part is Australian Federal Courts giving it airtime. I don't know the machinations of courts and how case hearings are prioritised, but this really feels like getting a QC[0] to be an umpire in a game of backyard cricket.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Counsel
Pretty much every programming language community has server side framework(s) which is better or close to the features provided by RoR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_frameworks
Medical Imaging Analysis Using PyTorch
WHY ENTERPRISES CHOOSE SERVERLESS ARCHITECTURE
Forbes just recently partnered with Civil, a blockchain journalism project from Consensys Studios, which is the commercial powerhouse of Ethereum’s cofounder.
Typekit is Adobe fonts
Interestingly, Indian culture is also heavily influenced by epic poems i.e. Mahabharata and Ramayana
From my reading, it's pretty much the only draw. I guess you could say working in an algorithm heavy environment is the other draw.

If a company has to pay you that much over typical market rate (for software devs), there's a reason.
good luck with that one. check out the "postal wiretap"; don't think the government decided to build a "national" communications network for the fuck of it.

they wanted to tap the comms.

same with the telegraph.

and every other means of comms.
Concepts to help developers master JavaScript
This is only a good idea if the things you're working on are isolatable "features", and you have an explicit process for garbage-collecting old feature flags. Otherwise the combinational explosion of possible flags kills your testing over time.
I miss Fireworks too, but Affinity Designer has become my go-to for all things vector design.
IMO, It is quite obvious there is a bubble in tech forming. I look at some of these companies and don't even know how they can justify the current investor expectations. I see people justify amazon's high valuation by saying stuff like "well if they get x % of WORLD retail sales...". It just shows the lack of depth in understanding that these people have. I am sure there is similar overly optimistic views occurring in the VC space as well.
How much do you make? :)
I mean their huge hair is probably good enough as a helmet
Can I suggest that you add sub categories in the UI Kits section to know at a glance if a kit is for Sketch and/or AdobeXD?
phillantropy is a marketing ploy by rich people

you don't amass this much wealth without profiting off of the work of others by exploiting a position of power, usually gained through ownership
> if enough people agree that I lied, you get a portion of the market fees

This creates a host of post-closing political incentives. You are no longer betting on an event outcome, but on a consensus process.
This ++, I massively miss my Nokia E71, there's been no decent replacement for it. Ok maybe the n900. But since then they're all the largely the same.
Every society needs common beliefs to function. These beliefs are arbitrary in the sense that there are other beliefs that would work just as well.

All secular states have a flag used for ceremonial purposes for example. It's supposed to create a feeling of unity. Just like religious symbols do. Sure we can talk about matters of degree. Not all societies have an all-seeing god, for example.
Then don't be in the Android app business.
Sure, and there's places other than amazon to sell.

That doesn't matter when the Play store, or Amazon, controls the majority of all sales. How much money are people making on APKpure? Is it enough to support a dozen software engineer salaries?

Didn't think so, no. Getting booted off of the Play store does not mean your app is impossible to share, but it decimates the size of your audience - worse, even. Will even one in one hundred be left?
I can switch that off (afaik). And the question remains: how can Mozilla compelled to do this?
We still exist. Look up Embarcadero: Delphi and C++Builder live on. We see increasing interest - I think there is some disillusion with some other dev tools.

There's a new version coming out soon.

-- David. (I work there.)
DrRacket IDE [0] + the SICP compt language [1] and you can start writing it instantly in a well built and maintained environment that’s racket based and pretty fleshed out library wise, certainly nothing compared to Clojure but among the rest, it’s the best (imo), I recall Carmack writing a server in Racket for fun and praising the experience a few years back.

[0] - https://racket-lang.org

[1] - http://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html?q=sicp#%2...

Additionally, if SICP proves too slow going or difficult math wise [3] you can always use drracket for HtDP [4] and it’s corresponding misnamed edX course(s) [5] and later on, PLaI [6].

[3] - http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-h...

[4] - https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/part_preface.html

[5] - https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x

[6] - http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/
Uhuru's Ikenya Illegal Arrest / Remanding / Detention V. Conditional Bailing
I can't figure out what I've read up to on Twitter anymore since it shuffles tweets around and inserts random "your follower also follows this person" tweets which I didn't ask for
Interesting how people were 'outraged' about 1 missing Journalist and flooded HN with articles about how evil the government of Saudi Arabia is ( which I agree with ) , but a more serious crime like genocide leaves HN disinterested. Would this be the same, if the perpetrators and victims were reversed ? I highly doubt it.
I'm surprised Sun wasn't posted sooner.

Can we add Solaris Zones to the list? I mean I know they're not technically dead, but it can't be long till it's gone can it?
Good feedback - we were actually thinking of adding tags for it which can be filtered. once we increase the assortments of the UI Kits - we will be sure to add this feature.
ARM has been picking up significant market share in routers. Most high-end 802.11ac routers are now using ARM-based SoCs, and nobody is adopting high-performance MIPS cores to compete against the Cortex-A series cores. MIPS-based routers will still be around for years, but it looks like they're begun a long decline that will probably not be reversed.
Accounts and Legal: More Group International – Why Accounting Is Important?
I don't agree with this at all. First of all, something feels off when you talk about right and wrong optimization without taking context into account. RaptorJIT grew out of the Snabb switch community. With that in mind, Rust+Lua isn't anywhere near pure Lua in terms of development speed, minimalism, simplicity and flexibility. Luke Gorrie has come out of the Lisp community so I have to imagine that these criteria are very important to him.

Systems language doesn't really mean anything by itself, so you sound very dogmatic when you talk about "right" here. The Lisp machines were implemented in Lisp. Is Lisp a systems language?
Well, you need a use case.
Why would the fake ads go away under Google?
> However, I think smart contracts are fascinating and wish more people would keep an open mind.

Does it occur to you someone might've had an open mind, and made up their mind?

Your comment assumes such isn't possible, yet your comment polarises the discussion (aka "flamebait") which isn't about the linked article at all. The amount of comments which are on-topic in this thread is zero with a large amount spawning from your initial post. Yet, the linked article is fascinating? Well, I'd love to read the on-topic discussion on it to read about it further.
At some point that code has to be removed. They can't keep every old option and code path around forever, it's just not sustainable.

There's a cost to using outdated systems, and this is it. If you need it, you can proxy requests to upgrade their protocol to something newer browsers speak, upgrade the device in question, keep old versions of browsers around for those single purposes (and probably gap that device as much as possible as it's now a much easier target for attackers).

Calling for all software to support all outdated options and code paths forever or even to always keep the code and flags or settings to enable it is absurd, and leads to unsustainable software that becomes impossible to change and improve.
I wish reviewers would stop latching on to the concept of “relevance” when describing the merits of an ancient text. Such a strangely utilitarian way of thinking about literature, as if its value lies in what it can do for us today.

Also, this seems to me to be utterly unfounded:
“Which poem is better, the Iliad or the Odyssey? I don’t have hard numbers to back this up, but today it seems pretty clear that the Odyssey wins hands down in the mass popularity stakes.“
What about all the studies (not that I've read them, so correct me if I'm wrong, I just hear them referenced all the time) that says once you have the minimum money needed to live comfortable, more money doesn't necessarily increase happiness?

I have no reason to doubt your x4 common-year-person, but how does that relate to happiness? Arguably the only metric that matters in the end.

By the way, private flying to paris and 3 star restaurants? Eh... not bad, but what I'm really looking forward once I'm old is having enough free time to play MMORPGs again.
I would say that R (and probably Julia as well, although I'm much less familiar) draws it's heritage from Lisp more than FORTRAN.
Never understood how a company could do a product so well and then regress from there.