skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this dark, disturbing, and terrifying. As a never-was, non-social-media user... I'm only 31... 5 years ago, I felt like I couldn't understand kids who were a few years younger than me. Now I feel like there's a total rupture between my mode of being and that of almost everyone else. When I give you my attention, I'm giving it to you. Completely. I don't multitask people. And you know I want to talk to you, because you can plainly see me ignoring people I don't want to talk to.

Not only that, but all my relationships are from the "other" time, and I don't think I could deal with trying to develop them online, in some way that's mediated by a giant corporation. Especially one run by one of the all-time least-sexy nerds on earth, whose apparent sense of inadequacy and misunderstanding of the nature of personal relationships are written large across every aspect of that system. (It was probably inevitable that someone like that would end up mediating "friendship" for the rest of the world, but come on).

What you're talking about reminds me of the groups that got together to share memorized books, in Farenheit 451. I'm already a smoker so I know how to cut 75% of the world out of my potential-new-friends & dating pool... cutting out social media users isn't that hard. I don't want to see the preview if it ruins the movie, and I don't want to meet people on Facebook. If I like them in person, I'll like them.
> I'm not on FB, so it's not. But if I were... I'd say the first thing to be violated would be my freedom to be left alone

Thats not a freedom, that is a choice. You can have a facebook account and never log in to it.

There may be other privacy concerns, but "freedom to be left alone" is not one of them.
The above comments are accurate: clojure-scheme lacks everything that ClojureScript lacks. And clojure-scheme is a month or two behind ClojureScript, so the new structure sharing persistent vectors haven't been ported over yet.
I really like the idea of your product, and it seems to do what you promise. I have not test it in depth, maybe some times I was kind of lost (for a short moment), I think it can be fine-tuned with a few tests with people. It's only a design/IA problem issue, as far as I can see.

In the quick tutorial, images are distorted (stretchet) and that gives an amateurish feeling, you should fix that.

And definitely I would like to see your blog about this journey. It seems that you really know how to tell things.

Best luck!
Stallman is right.

What Facebook provides is a completely unoriginal set of social networking tools wrapped in a mediocre presentation layer that requires you to surrender some of your most precious human rights in order to access it. Their users are their product. They sell you to advertisers and even more unsavory corporations like Zynga that are looking to lure you into a constant dopamine feedback loop to sucker you into buying virtual goods, so you can get that same dopamine fix faster still. Both corporations are parasites of the worst sort, because you're not only giving up your privacy, freedom, and money, you're doing so for a short term and minimal reward.

There will not be another Facebook, you can no longer be a "social network." Social networking at this point is just a common feature set that countless websites can easily replicate. In the future, social networking should just be a protocol that enables features like sharing photos, anecdotes, and relationships using a decentralized system. Bit torrent with identity. Or without identity if you so choose.
I was at a local event last night that was ostensibly a panel discusion regarding campaign finance reform. The primary speaker was Senator Blumenthal (CT). In his intro he made it a point to indicate that he was going to support legislation that would make it illegal for employers to ask for access to applicants social networking accounts.

I mention this simply to illustrate how these 'trends' can easily be picked up by Washington politicians and turned into national issues. Blumenthal is actually quite famous/notorious (your choice) for latching on to 'trends' and milking them for as much publicity as he can.
Calling Choco (Constraint Library) from Clojure
I think you're correct. I have an elderly relative that has recently turned to using FB on the iPad as her prime means of communicating with her relatives in the Phillipines (while she is in the US).

It's gotten to the point where she just _can't_ understand why people aren't on Facebook. "Why aren't they there? Don't they want to hear from me? What's wrong with them."

Small aside: FB is significantly easier for her to deal with than email as it provides more contextual cues about who she is communicating with (primarily seeing profile pictures next to messages).
You bet. I never see the answer to: Why would people smarter than you want to work for someone dumber than them?
These aren't the views of normal users. You may not be 99% percentile when it comes to privacy awareness, but given your answer, you are among the 95%+ percentile for sure.

normal users don't know or care about monetization plans. they don't know a privacy policy has been copy/pasted. In fact, they won't read it. They won't go far enough to check if the business is in the EU or US. Most normal users of your service aren't in the EU, unless your service is targeting mainly people in the EU. Most people don't care who is behind a company and won't investigate this. Normal users won't look far enough to find canned statements about privacy on your site. Normal users won't try to see what a company stores about them. Normal users don't know or care about metrics or know about targeted advertising.

Imagine the average internet user. By definition 49.9% of all internet users are less aware and less capable than that person. Remember this. It keeps perspective grounded in reality.
Choice #3:

Offer to log in for them and let them look around. Say, "After all, you wouldn't give me your password if I asked, would you?" You might even get bonus points if you have "Login Approvals" enabled (the six digit code sent by text message).
If you're looking for a cheap tenkeyless cherry blue that you can easily find locally, I recommend the cmstorm quickfire. Warning: it's gamer ugly.
Along with everyone else, I agree that scientists shouldn't be punished for being wrong.

HOWEVER, it appears that the mistake brought to light existing frictions within the group, which is the driving force behind these resignations. From the article: 'Autiero ... told Nature that he did not resign because he made mistakes in the measurement. Rather, he and Ereditato ... "felt that tensions that had always existed within OPERA were becoming impossible to bridge."'
Yes. BTW, he did not finish his PhD, which he began at MIT.
Side note: MIT does not award honorary doctorates at all.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was getting at. Thanks.
This seems like just a reference, a lot doesn't make sense to me.
Y Combinator, will you marry me?
Hey, fancy seeing you here :).

And good point on the "self-perceive to know", and how it's not the same as actually knowing. And, of course, ties in with gender issues itself.

FWIW I never had a whit of impostor syndrome in the context where we met. But code culture, it's weird that way.
New image sensors could lead to focusing photos after they're taken
$50/hr is a low end for somebody with 5 years of experience, especially if it's 1099 and not W2-hourly.
That was a brilliant read, thanks for the heads up.
I have a biphasic sleep schedule, but it just means it takes me two sessions to sleep through the night.
Not really. Leadership is about giving clear direction and encouraging others to rise to the occasion. That can happen if the "leader" is not as good technically as his subordinates.
Inside Apple HQ
It is very interesting that very same lack of privacity that is experienced with facebook is very similar to the kind of privacy you "enjoy" on small comunities( you can find recent articles on how is living in the malvines and it is pretty much a facebook live).

Maybe is due to the fact that we are a social species, and group sizes have been mostly small till not so long ago, that you can explain the facebook success( we are in a certain way wired to an unanonymous live).
I use facebook and I use it a lot(lots of iddle time that can't be used in a more productive way), but mostly to post "lame" links or videos or pics. There are no personal pics or data in my account. The way the people usually manage their privacy settings and how they share with facebook, is due to the fact that they are not aware of the possible consecuences and how openly that info will be accesed by people who are not friends.
No, it's not. My friends do all sorts of stupid and annoying shit, but hanging out with them has many orders of magnitude more value to me than their opinion of my opinion of Facebook.
TL,DR: repeats old misconceptions.

Task: go to the Apple Macintosh App Store. Download Clozure CL. Get Quicklisp. Get libraries. Start hacking. Connect via #lisp, reddit/lisp, the CLozure CL mailing list. Put your stuff on Github, make it available via Quicklisp.

http://ccl.clozure.com/
http://www.quicklisp.org/

Have fun.
Calling Facebook an oppressive and authoritarian camp violating freedom seems extremely hyperbolic. Doesn't this disservice the experience of those who have actually died in oppressive and authoritarian camps?

Is the mental pain individuals experience when using freely provided and voluntary services equivalent to the physical pain individuals experience when coerced to perform actions against their will via threats of violence?

While implicit threats of violence may exist in the majority of parent-child relationships (mandatory schooling, etc), I have not seen any evidence of such a relationship between companies like Facebook or Google and their customers.
I find the funding side of the tech world is a bit like loan insanity around higher education. The price-to-benefit ratio is going up when it should be going down.

One would image tech startups are experiencing progressively lower capital requirements to reach market, yet we (seem to) see funding numbers going up in size and frequency.

Higher education costs keep going up while the marginal benefit of those extra dollars are lost. Is a university that raises prices 8% in one year giving you an 8% better education?

I suppose thats what happens when money becomes available in a system. It gets spent and the benchmark is moved up. One is driven by VC's and the other is by government backed loans.
I wonder though if this is an out of date concern because the last time Lisp was popular was before the proliferation of open source and tools like github. As a newbie Clojure programmer, I feel like I've already come across some very successful open source frameworks/libs (ex. Noir, Storm).

I do get concerned though how PL fads seem to move in circles, and would love to learn more why Lisp is experiencing a renaissance. What's changed?
How would you feel about "Etsy Wants to Give Male Programmers $5,000 to Attend Hacker School"?

It would be in the news all over the country. If you can't switch male/female without feeling like it's wrong one way, it's wrong the other way too.
I don't know of any sites that do this directly. Are you looking for personal bookmarks or a way to share sites with people? The two are a little different in my mind.
> but there's something wrong with people liking camp because they're supposed to like camp.

You can say that about anything, "But there's something wrong with people liking grapes because they're supposed to like grapes.

Re: Stallman's statement - Maybe you don't like grapes, but calling it a mass-conspiracy to manipulate / document genetic information is a far cry.
I don't think you understand Stallman's criticisms of Facebook, though, which I'm assuming are the same as his good buddy Eben Moglen. The worst thing about Facebook is not that most people appear to enjoy it.
"Onerous" essentially means "expensive to comply with", not necessarily "hard to follow". For more detail on these sorts of issues, see, e.g., http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1752.
Hey you!

Code culture IS weird. And not in a good way. I have all sorts of things I think about this, but I have trouble sorting these things out in any sort of useful way, so I really appreciate seeing others sorting their own thoughts out for me to read. Thanks for saying interesting things!
> Women get equal pay for the same experience in the same job.

That goes against a whole lot of sociological research, including CEO pay in the private sector and professors at the academia level. Where are you getting that idea?

One third of all women are killed by an intimate partner. Women ages 20-24 are disproportionately the victim of non-fatal domestic violence.

Women live longer? Well, okay: that doesn't have to do with pay scale or work inequality, though, right? They don't live longer because someone is deciding to let them live longer, but they do get less money because some institution is deciding they should get less money.

Ultimately, how do any of these facts relate to professional equality?
The PC needs to be incremented past the "next words". But it seems odd that a un-executed push instruction would still modify SP.
Just to make this technique a bit clearer, since "subtract 50 and double" was a bit vague to me: you ask 100 people the question about illegal activity, and assume they're going to toss the coin and follow the protocol. That gives you 100 "yes" and "no" answers, of which ~50 "yes" answers are due to following the protocol and can just be ignored. The remaining yes/no answers are from the tails results and that's the data you use to get a final answer. As an illegal opiate producer in Afghanistan who answers "yes", you have plausible deniability by just saying "I got heads."

The fairness of the coin toss means the researcher asking the question doesn't need to know who got which coin result so it can be kept secret.
While the technology for making indoor map content (georeferencing a floor plan) is already widely available, most smartphones do a very poor job of positioning themselves indoors. GPS doesn't work inside, leaving cell and wifi trilateration as the most readily available alternatives.

Another likely factor for Google deploying on Android only is the ability to use wifi signal strength data from the phone to do approximate indoor positioning (the you-are-here "little blue dot"). Apple chose to lock developers out of the API for reading wifi signal strength, which limits the iPhone's ability to do indoor positioning (or show you nearby wifi routers).

In Apple's defense, the indoor positioning experience on Android does not meet the high expectations that GPS has set for users. Instead of a precise little blue dot, you get a 10-30m wide big blue circle. Some of the positioning hardware announced from chipset makers like CSR and Broadcom may improve this situation in the next generation of handsets.
I hate using real name on FB. But I really enjoy stalking people on FB. :D
Considering an official whitehouse.gov petition led to the White House response that eventually turned the tide on SOPA the last time, actually that's not true.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/14/obama-administrati...
What UI toolkit was used to build MadeiraCloud? Anybody knows?
Good non-cryptographic hash functions have "good" avalanching behaviour, but the definition of "good" depends on how randomly you expect your inputs to behave and how much a collision costs you. In hash tables, for instance, people often use quite weak -- i.e., poorly avalanching -- hashes since the cost of a collision is quite low.

Probably the best way to phrase it is that non-cryptographic hash functions cover a continuum with checksums at one extreme and cryptographic hash functions at the opposite extreme.
Needs way more data points, 11k visits is nothing.
The linked article "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer" is brilliant: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

I don't know how correct it is about Lisp in specific, but he's definitely nailed a familiar type.
I was thinking more along the lines of somehow forcing certain space complexity on every hash computation so it can't be as easily parallelized.

However, I see that my exact reasoning in the post above is not solid. Having longer strings as the final result of password comparison is irrelevant, because they are not part of the brute-force computation in the first place.
Seed rounds are very different than series A rounds.
When I was a kid, my parents sent me to camp, even though all I wanted to do was sit home and write text adventures in BASIC. I hated camp.

When I was a kid, my parents sent me to a computer camp. We sat around and wrote text adventures in BASIC, while we weren't sneaking bit copies of games. (Someone wrote a bit copier that let you play Pong in the foreground so the camp counselors couldn't catch you by looking over your shoulder.)
Actually, a quick study will show you that it's the (by definition) minority of people who rebel against social norms and mass movements, the people who aren't followers, who have been the drivers of civilization, the catalysts for new ideas, the creators and inventors. I think it's safe to say most of those people hated or would hate summer camp.

People who really love camp might be poster children for human herd behavior, and they certainly make excellent prison guards when they grow up. But they suck at thinking for themselves.

[edit. on consideration, the second paragraph was an unnecessarily harsh blanket statement, emotional, and without any logical foundation at whatsoever. The more important question is whether free thinkers who do reject social media, camp, or group activities in general, are being pushed further from their ability to contribute to mainstream society by their choice of self-exclusion from FB than they would by e.g. choosing not to drink coffee at Starbucks, or be a customer of some other individual mega-corp.]
Requests: HTTP for Humans

Lovely code and good documentation

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests

Also checkout the Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html
While i was on facebook and left, my decision to leave was accelerated by the privacy concerns, rather than being the first(temporally) cause themselves. Infact, the first thing that caused me to worry about being on fb, was the amount of time i ended up spending there. All in all, am happy i am not connected/updated with all my friend's statuses. :-)
I was looking for a way to share sites with people. I think MetaFilter is probably the closest thing to what I'm looking for.

Thanks.
Ask HN: Harvard or Stanford undergrad for Computer Science?
I know there're a few threads about this (here and on other sites) but I wanted to get your specific advice. I'm mainly choosing between Harvard and Stanford for an undergrad program. I'd major in computer science, but maybe take courses in quantitative economics, cognitive psychology, pure math, etc.

I know Stanford being close to SV is a huge plus - but I'm not sure how much that matters as an undergrad. I have a startup idea I've been researching for the past 4 years, but it's nowhere near VC stage anyway.

I also know Stanford's computer science department is stronger - but I'm not looking to be a highly technical person. I can't see myself (or most other undergrads) "running out" of CS courses at Harvard, and if I do, I guess I'd be able to supplement them with MIT courses.

And then on the other hand, most of the top kids I know from top science competitions (like Science Talent Search) are heading to Harvard. I feel like I'd learn a ton from being around those types of people (especially those who aren't interested in comp sci), which is a plus on the Harvard side.

So Stanford has stronger CS, better weather, better ties for tech entrepreneurship, but Harvard has a more diverse education, several top science competition students, and better financial aid. Any advice?
Smarter does not mean better leader. Often great leaders are indeed intelligent, but the skills that make someone a better leader do not necessarily correlate with being "smarter". Instead, great leaders possess the ability to motivate and read people in an effective way.

Conversely, you've probably encountered highly intelligent people that have the people skills of a bug.
...easy enough that my parents can use? That doesn't introduce a cognitive load of "oh shit how do I do that again?"
Very cool stuff.

Thinking out loud here: You could probably make this work today for a game that has a fixed camera view and light source. Photoreal puzzle games, anyone?
Lisp had open source before you had it. The Lisp implementations were already shared during the 60s. They travelled by tape. The github of that time was the time-sharing system, where hundreds of users shared a computer and its storage: mainframes and large minicomputers.

See ITS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_System

The MIT in the 70s and 80s had LANs and file servers already. The networked Lisp Machines used common repositories. There weren't passwords. Different sites shared files via tapes and via the early ARPA net. Losing this when the MIT commercialized some of the technology inspired Richard Stallman to start the free software movement.

Lisp and AI users collected and shared a lot of software. See for example this repository with software from the 80s and early 90s:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/0.html

Sharing was done via FTP servers.

When Common Lisp was initially developed from 82-84, immediately open source implementations (with different licenses) were created: CMUCL, KCL, AKCL, WCL, CLISP, ... which can be traced to today's SBCL, ECL, CCL, ABCL and others.
Really creative application of machine learning! Would love to hear about this as a paper on one of the ML conferences someday :)
The Guy Who Brought Whiskey to Japan & Entrepreneurial Haiku
Well, there is the mailing list incident where, when someone congratulated another contributor on the birth of their child, Stallman labelled the entire phenomenon of childbirth as "menacing" and went on to say "these birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation."

Not to get into the whole discussion about whether that was the right forum or etc, but by definition I'd say being generally anti-humanity-propogating-itself meets the bar for "misanthropy".
Mr. Tarver failed to see that this is not specific to Lisp.
"Gone are the days when applying to Y Combinator was about filing an application form."

This made me smile ruefully as I plow through reading applications.

Actually very little has changed about the application process or what we look for.
This is fairly true in my experience.

I find solving puzzles at codeeval much more interesting than crafting custom cover letters, and the ease of applying means I'll more likely apply to a company there than elsewhere.

OTOH I don't think I'd classify myself as an "A" player, at least not yet. The more I learn the more I find I need to learn &tc.

(haven't heard back for anyone yet though. Probably a bunch of good applicants inundating their hiring team as well.)
They are no longer minor decisions once they are adopted by the masses.
The problem that I have is the climate of profound mistrust it creates.

Even if I refused and were offered the job anyway because of my excellent convictions, I wouldn't want to take it, because the culture is one that defaults to extreme mistrust. That's the same reason I did walk out of a job interview requiring a drug screen even though I don't do any drugs.

If I've got a drug or booze or facebook or gambling problem, it will impact my work in a visible way. If it doesn't impact my work in a visible way, then it isn't a problem, is it?