skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in charge of the "beer" part, so I think it needs to be emphasized more. Just learned how to play Battle Pong, so bring your game/drinking faces
Do you have a portfolio I can check out? I might have some work I can send your way.
Some Schemes have this too. I'd be surprised if an industrial VM, like the CLR, didn't support this.
Ask HN: Developer role in the adult industry?
I recently received what sounds like a great Web Dev offer: challenging problems, large scalability requirements, latest technologies, small agile team, excellent compensation package, five weeks paid holidays and generous relocation to one of the coolest places in Europe.

There's one catch though: the majority of the domains operated by this company are adult. I've nothing against this industry on moral, religious or political correctness ground; I'd lie if I said I never indulge in them (wink wink). I'm more ambivalent because of the generally negative perception of this business. How I should be answering questions about where I work and what I do? Would I put this on my resume, and how? &c

Would love to get some opinions, especially from insiders that are or were in similar roles.
Rails, Models and Business Logic
Games for blind players
Nice too see a free alternative, even though I suspect it won't feel reliable in practice for serious sites, though I'm hardly an expert on this topic so I better leave that to experts.

What I could say though is that I'm after 6 months of usage very sold on DNSimple, those guys just rock and it's a few bucks per month - read: nothing - and updates records fast-as-*, instant support, even for obscure things as "the great firewall"-issues, etc. For those that want to pick a safe card.
I feel like the EFF could step in here.
The Lisp system is a meta model. Thus you can implement a Lisp that works like ML/Haskell/Prolog if you like. ML/Haskell don't seem to provide that kind of meta power as cleanly or consistently IME. Prolog has a good meta model, but it doesn't seem to subsume other models as cleanly, consistently, or efficiently as Lisp.
When a drop in stock price is disproportionate to the available news, then you can be sure that the real cause of that drop is due to major players and insiders getting out because they know more than the public does and more problems are about to come out.
Two of them:

http://jonathan.tang.name/files/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overvi...

http://jonathan.tang.name/files/arclite/
I've voted and was surprised to see the one I liked the least had the current highest vote!

I think even having a simple logo for an MVP is good, it gives a sense of focus.
How much are you guys looking to spend?
I saw the black band at the top of the page and I knew another great has left us - it's the black band of sorrow

R.I.P
No formal portfolio at the moment, but I finished http://kristenbasham.com/ for a photographer friend this summer, and I'm working on a winery website on WordPress ( http://winetree.farrspace.com/ ), which will be finished as soon as they send me the rest of the initial content =)

I have previously done things as simple as a 3 page static website for my aunt's music company, to as complex as a PHP & database driven weblog for myself with users and music sections, and a "static site" CMS for a city government, along with design and content.
For nearly two decades I was a diehard LISP advocate. I even forced all my programers to code three Crash Bandicoot and four Jak & Daxter games in custom LISP dialects that I wrote the compilers for (an article on one here http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...).

But by the mid 2000s I started doing the kind of programming I used to do in LISP in Ruby. It's not that Ruby is a better language, but mostly it was the momentum factor and the availability of modern libraries for interfacing with the vast array of services out there. Using the crappy unreliable or outdated LISP libraries -- if they worked at all -- was tedious. Plus the LISP implementations were so outmoded. It was very hard to get other programers (except a couple enthusiasts) to work that way.

Ruby struct a decent compromise. And it's type system and object model are better than CL anyway. The syntax is more inconsistent, and the macro model nowhere near as good. But it turns out. Libraries and implementation matter a lot. Still, you can feel lots and lots of LISP influence in all the new runtime typed languages (Ruby, Python, etc). And 30 years later, listeners still rule!
> Where do you live that people go 65 in a 60?

Seattle is like this in a few spots.

> Where I'm from (Chicago/ Milwaukee) you're lucky if traffic's only going 70 in a 50/55.

I grew up in Green Bay, WI. I know exactly what you're thinking. :)
Forth is the third model -- very clean and consistent, and still widely used.

(Forth is usually the first HLL to get working on a new chip due to its simplicity.)

If you're looking for a modern stack-language implementation, give Factor a try: http://factorcode.org/
This is my favorite John McCarthy story.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803627

I like how one simple succinct relevant question can say so much about Norvig's claims. It seems appropriate coming from the creator of LISP. And, of course, the mutual respect, professionalism they both had to leave it at that.
Jimmy Wales Solemnly Looking At You raised $47,000 against three other ads totalling $6500. Faces work. See October 26:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testi...
You can't gain confidence by studying, you must gain confidence by doing. My suggestion is that you start building things, pick an idea and execute it begin-to-end. Then pick a more complex project and do it all over again. It is very important that you finish everything you start though so pick your battles wisely.

Good luck, I know you can do it :)
Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity
TBH, I had this one lying around from a torrent I obtained someplace a while back.

In general though, Calibre can handle conversion between various formats (http://calibre-ebook.com/) - I use it to convert the odd HTML ebook to MOBI for my Kindle with reasonably good results.
Einstein's Intuition
Do they ever send you to collections? I hear that's an even worse nightmare.
"Right, but Amazon is in a heavy infrastructure, heavy competition, low margin business. And their margins are small and getting smaller. 2% or so IIRC."

Amazon's gross profit ran north of 20% last quarter. (http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AMZN&fstype=ii) They're a dominant player in both online retail and cloud services, they're now providing cloud services to government entities, and they're growing like crazy. They're hiring like crazy and that's driving down their net income (I think they hired like 30% of their employees in the past year.) The market clearly believes they're on their way to double or quadruple their business over the next few years as more shoppers go online and more services go to AWS.

Apple is doing great, but they're 4X the size of Amazon in terms of market cap, and arguably at their "peak" in terms of everything going their way. They're going to keep growing, but they're already the largest company by market cap... are they likely to double? The market doesn't seem to believe that. Is that right? I don't know... it just seems to be what the pricing currently indicates.

Edit: It's also worth noting that spending on infrastructure does not have the same effect as spending on employees. Infrastructure costs are spread out over the life of the equipment, whereas payroll is expensed as incurred.
I am not sure in your example people picked the "with computer" option because it was tangible. I am guessing that anyone who can afford 5,000 for a service can afford a couple of grand to avoid the hassle of purchasing and setting up a computer. If your service was worth $100, then I would indeed find that remarkable.
I'll have to check my datafeed, but it doesn't seem like there was a disproportionately large amount of volume after hours.

The major players and insiders don't get out after the earnings release, they get out weeks before during the distribution phase. Most after-hours action is algo-bots and retail investors.

The real action starts tomorrow morning, so get your popcorn ready!
thanks a lot. will read soon.
Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language
"No, John, it can't," said Peter Norvig
George - that is really incredible feedback. thank you for that comment.
Fair enough, but you could tell us what you do that you didn't used to.

I ride more, play board games, and read more.
That masking is criminal.
Typo on the order page:

W'll create an enticing store-front for your products. We'll even polish the window for you.
Your web apps don't release dopamine into my bloodstream. Your iPhone game doesn't give me a headache if I don't play it. I can't take a girl on a date to your eBook PDF.

The reason that digital goods _seem_ more expensive is because the result we get _is_ less valuable to us as human beings. It's hard to pay money for things that leave you exactly as you were before - sitting in a chair, looking at a screen.
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Is there any way of knowing if I'm one of the 46,524?
Recommerce Hack Day Wrap Up
You: http://bit.ly/oxPXtH Numis Network Review: Weighing The Pros and Cons
I personally am amazed that people's queue is not constantly full. Right now I have 178 disks in my "DVD" queue and 87 titles in my "Instant" queue (including series which take one slot).

Maybe there's a ton of stuff that I don't "need" to watch, but I can always find something interesting. I really don't consider myself a huge movie lover either.
Groupon Sues Ex-Sales Managers It Claims Defected to Google, Took Secrets
Are they still supporting their entire product line? Yes. Then who cares.
If only there was one built in to the operating system...
I would pay for the "don't show me this again, ever" button.
Ask HN: Is an MVP a substitute for Market/Customer Research?
I did some quick searches through HN and Google but haven't found anything specifically regarding this (I may be blind)

I am working on developing a new idea with a friend and have been talking to a bunch of people about the idea. One of my 'advisors' has given me a laundry list of questions/things I should be answering.

I am wondering if a MVP is a method of answering a lot of these questions (what are customers looking for, will they use this, etc) or is it used to test existing research?

This is all given that the MVP we can use would require very limited time/monetary resources.

Thanks.
All MacBook Pro models are upgradeable, you just need the right kit. http://macsales.com/ usually has you covered, just pick your model and you can see what options you have. There's even a way to replace your usually useless optical drive with a special bracket for an SSD drive.
Just one data point, but the one guy I know who worked in the adult industry I would hire in a heartbeat, FWIW.
The 4GB DIMMs were stupidly expensive about a year and a half ago, but they're stupidly cheap now. Give it a year and they'll be $80 each, not $310. There's just not much demand for them yet.
Implementing a Lisp that works like ML/Haskell will be as much work as implementing a compiler/interpreter of these languages outside of Lisp. The macro system is not a great compiler toolkit for languages with semantics radically different from Lisp.

Lisp thus does not really subsume these languages.
The entire book is posted here by permission of MIT Press: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fam...
I think the difference in the two interactions is that if a biker hits a pedestrian they are likely to be hurt just as bad as the pedestrian if not worse.

A driver who hits a cyclist or pedestrian risks a dent in the hood at the worst. So while the "dick cyclist" is annoying, the position of power isn't comparable.
They are. There are insurance requirements for driving, licensing, etc. I'm unaware of any legal restrictions on bicyling on public roads (apart from staying off certain restricted access roads, typically interstates).

I've actually wondered why there aren't insurance and licensing requirements. I would be happy paying my fair share of infrastructure maintenance as a cyclist, especially if it helped give a voice and build safer roads for bicyclists.
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The source has been updated. But yeah, it's a little redundant at this point, not that dupes on hn are uncommon.
I think by "GPU", it's presumed to mean "non-embedded GPU" as Intel has taken to bundling it with their newer i series chips.
Some cyclists ride like idiots and some drivers drive like assholes when it comes to bikes. However, if you ride a bike, you'll be impacted by an asshole driver probably a couple times on your way to your destination, and then a couple more times on your way back. Talk to a driver about idiot cyclists and they'll give you a story from 6 months ago. It's not a fair fight, and not just because of the weight difference.
I heard a rumor about a rumor coming out next year.
https://github.com/manuel/edgelisp (Lisp->JavaScript compiler)

https://github.com/manuel/ell (Lisp->C compiler)

https://github.com/manuel/schampignon (Kernel interpreter in JS)
Certainly its own family, along with its successors J and K.
This is freaking awesome. How come no one thought of it before? Really useful.
Startups with Larger Social Networks Receive More VC Funding
"formed by students of University of Economics in Prague and me as their teacher"

Not sure about other students.
Netflix may operate in the red for all of 2012
Thank you so very much for this. I'm a fan of all things Paul Irish and now I'm making my way through the list in great detail.
"Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval..., and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it."

Here is the point in the story where we need Norvig's annotation from PAIP (p. 777):

"So the first Lisp interpreter was the result of a programmer ignoring his boss's advice."

I like to think that the "ho, ho" in the original quote means that McCarthy appreciated this.
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
This shows that when consumers band together they can make a difference in corporate America. I wish we were more united in standing up against other products that are,
1.environmentally unfriendly (petrol)
2.abusive (child labor in Nike Sweatshops)
3.cruelty to animals (chicken farms)
Sadly, I think most consumers only united when it's hurting their pockets. Otherwise, they turn a blind eye.
Playing with list slicing in Python
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I would argue that it's very possible to be an assertive cyclist whose presence is well-known on the road without resorting to actively breaking traffic laws or antagonizing your fellow road-goers.
Yeah, no...an outlier that is also your dataset's most beautiful (valid) point? I don't think so. Either we are plotting him in the wrong graph or our initial hypothesis is incorrect.

Oh the Secret of Steve Jobs! One day there will be a person that outshines Steve. Rest assured somewhere out there they are sitting in their desks trying to figure out the meaning of life while struggling with the curveball life keeps throwing at them.
Bill collectors really aren't that bad if you know how to deal with them. I got sent to one once for a service I had canceled three times. The collector sent me a letter in the mail and then started calling every day at around 8 or 9 am.

I sent all of the calls to voicemail and I sent a letter to the collector (via certified mail with delivery receipt) that said "RE: account number XYZ; this bill is erroneous, do not contact me again." I haven't heard from them since.
Ask HN: Bootstrapped and profitable - what would you like to know?
I am writing an article about our experience bootstrapping an online community from 0 to our first million users - and profitability.

What aspects of bootstrapping an online business should I focus on?

Which questions would you like me to answer?
The adoption process is very very difficult unless your willing to pay $30k+. It's much easier to just be pregnant for 9 months. It took my parents 6 years.
I don't think he is correct. Debt can be sustained as long as there are marginal returns to be had. The real problem is that the marginal returns are no longer there because energy prices have been increasing at the same pace. This suggests that energy availability to be the limiting factor.

Once growth is throttled by expensive energy, the debt position of countries, companies and individuals start to look shaky. This is what is happening now. If companies are unable to increase their profitability, then there is less taxes to be collected, which means weaker governments, and a slower economy. This in turn affects an individual's ability to find and keep work, and service their debts.
Hello Kitty Perfume
I was currently working through "An incremental approach to compiler construction" in Clojure, so this isn't done: https://github.com/spacemanaki/incremental-compiler

Previously, in C and to C, for the end of SICP: https://github.com/spacemanaki/lisp-in-c
Thanks for the information.

I don't see how Google Voice can work with an iPhone? At least not as well as it does with an Android device and or forgo using iMessage - use iPhone email client to send/receive text messages. Though if you forgo using iMessage then Siri won't be able to send text messages for you.
People could choose low to mid tier phones -- but they buy iPhones instead. They could choose low to mid tier laptops -- but they buy MacBook Pros. They could buy Xooms but they buy iPads.

There's a lot of room for improvement with TVs. How many remote controls do you have? How many steps do you have to take to get your downloaded video to play on your TV, with audio? How many cables do you need? How many different services do you have to go to find the stuff you want to watch?

Maybe most importantly, how much do you pay your cable company per month for the "privilege" of getting a bundle of channels, most of which you never watch?
What made Lisp Different
This may be obvious but what you did to get to those million users and if you have any regrets or what you would do differently. Sounds like an interesting article, can't wait to read it!
By double the mass, do you mean double the volume? Again, coming back to my original question, what is the advantage of doing thinner, assuming weight is approximately the same? The latitude (or equivalent models) is thicker, but I see a benefit with removal battery, HD, etc. I'm not seeing as strong a benefit with thinness.

As an aside, the quoted prices seem extremely steep for the E4300, mostly because it is possible to get PC laptops on deep discounts and upgrade for far less than a manufacturer charges. I snagged mine in July '09 for $700. Doubled battery power for another $70. Didn't get an SSD until last year, but 128 GB models sold for around $320 then. Total cost ~$1,100.

(I chose the Latitude as a comparison just to show that even older PC's (2009) were competitive with Airs (this one through 2010). Agreed, Dell doesn't make such a light laptop anymore, but others have taken its place.)
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harlequin baby... nanural selection is a bitch lol. 0_o
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So we have a 51/49% ratio for happiness and crazy in relation to child rearing. And this is for a middle to upper class person who wanted kids in the first place. Kids are crazy, generally make the gf/wife look 15y older after they have had em, and allow said gf/wife to have ultimate control (child support and divorce) which essentially robs a man of his independance and ability to have fun. There is a damn good reason that there are family sections of restraunts... Also, consider bars/leaving bong & vape on the coffee table/leaving porn and condoms out/leaving booze out/leaving good food out (kids are less behaved than kitties in most ways)/leaving expensive tech out (kiddies going to puke on that MBP)....ad nauseum. There is really no point to having kids, although social convention aka parents in some cultures sometimes advocates them, but it is a matter of rational self interest to disagree with this notion. 99% chance your kids will put you in a rest home, rather than take care of you, thats how the cookie crumbles.
Two variants of Scheme, with shared libraries:

http://github.com/jcoglan/heist
http://fargo.jcoglan.com

If it weren't for Lisp it would never have been so easy for total noobs like me to get into language hacking.
Why not crossplatform? Or a webapp?
I know, it seems like such an obvious thing to do.
Suddenly I'd like to know how other languages fare. I have a feeling they might not be much better.
The language was not designed by chance. Some of the syntax was designed by chance. “Some of the syntax” is a very tiny part of a language.

While this is interesting, presenting it as a “randomly-generated language” is extremely misleading.
> The macro system is not a great compiler toolkit for languages with semantics radically different from Lisp.

I take it you're not familiar with all the evidence that has Racket against that statement.

In anycase, that's not my real point. Lisp has a simple yet powerful meta system. ML/Haskell do not. But their models weren't designed to provide that kind of simple consistent power.
Really nice slides indeed.
Any chances you post that talk, btw?
To quote the wise _Principia Discordia_:

> "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
Or,

(assert (equal 'dearly (missed-amount 'john-mccarthy)))
Males and females have at least one thing in common: Upregulating X
>For Comparison's sake, last quarter, Apple earned 6.8 billion. Amazon's net sales were 9.9 billion. Pretty soon, I'd expect Apple's profits to be bigger than Amazon's sales.
Something's not rational here. Might be me. Might be the market.

Those two companies are quite the opposite from each other. One tries to lower prices as much as possible the other tries to charge as much as possible.
N = 18
If you aren't looking for an API solution, you might want to check this out:
http://zips.sourceforge.net/

It isn't the most recent data, but it ought to get you started.
Never. The kind of companies who are automatically billing are attempting to charge in advance for monthly services without a long-term contract, as opposed to billing in arears, so as far as I know I don't owe them the money and they can cancel my account clearly.
In terms of video? No, not yet. Waiting on the conference guys to process and post it.
OMG.. There's something really exciting in this release that I've been waiting for:

"The kernel code for software RAID now offers bad block management for RAID levels 1, 4, 5 and 6. This detects and avoids known bad areas on the RAID disks (for example 1, 2, 3). Dm-crypt is now able to forward discard commands to the underlying disk. This is useful for SSDs, as it allows them to be informed of freed blocks via ATA trim, improving both speed and lifespan."

AFAIK, this is the first time you can configure SSDs into a RAID and then have that configuration utilize TRIM.