skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fairly large amount of it is, I think, not wanting the kid to get in trouble later on. Even if you're OK with it, the society they live in may not be, and as a parent you're preparing them to live in that society. If you don't, they get punished and alienated. Which is worse, temporarily supporting nonsense, or temporarily causing problems?
So basically turn a nearby planet into an AI and hope that it includes us in its Dyson sphere?
Purity is a false idol. CL is a functional programming llanguage. Functional as in programming with functions. Maintenance of referential transparency is the duty of the programmer. As long as you have HOFs and some form of lexical closure as basic language features, you can call a language functional. tail-call optimization, default immutability, automated structure cloning, parameteric datatypes, default currying and h-m type inference are language features that make mathematical reasoning easier, but they are neither essential nor definitive requirements of a functional programming language.
1.1bn for a company that does 10mm/year in top line rev. Ouch.

Not saying this wasn't a smart move by yahoo. They need a loss leader to bring fresh blood to their profit centers.
Ask HN: What options are there for long-term web site hosting?
A family friend of mine asked me a question the other day that made me pause. She wants to put a QR Code on a grave stone with a URL link to a web site hosting their family tree information. There is little that is more permanent than a grave stone. How would you implement this with long-term thinking. Use a free site? Find a place willing to allow you to pay for 100 years? Is there a service out there that does this already? I thought I'd hit up the hive-mind.
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So Floobits is like this but it's somehow associated with a startup and doesn't have first-class support for vim?
So you want to remove my choice to buy Cap'n'crunch because you are pretty sure it isn't healthy.
> I'll believe personal experience and observation over some conclusion from a published paper that used obscure statistical methods

Then you are in good company. There are many reports of villages complaining about wireless towers causing headaches and other health issues... even when it later turned out the towers were not even active. I read an interview today with Bill Gates, who noted that one of the biggest problems the Gates Foundation has encountered in its efforts to eradicate certain diseases is that 10-20% of the people hear rumors of vaccines being bad and refuse to take them.
I don't think this has stopped, or even slowed. There are more counter-examples now, but there are also more supporting ones, and it feels like I see a new article somewhere on a monthly basis saying tablets are no good for creation.

Meanwhile, the kids keep painting and building things, like they did when it first came out.
why would self control run counter to instincts
I think the distinction is between "something" that you've chosen to do with your life and that you find fulfilling, and the "somethings" you just kind of end up falling back to, as a default without making a conscious decision.

So yeah, I don't think there's really anything that doesn't qualify as "something", the point is just that the "somethings" that you want to do and the "somethings" you end up doing are often not quite aligned, and you kind of know it in the back of your mind but don't end up doing anything about it. "Yeah, I've always wanted to see the world, but it's not really a good time for it right now, so I'll just finish this project, and finish paying off my <X> loan, and then maybe I'll do it."

You kind of end up living in The Waiting Place from Oh The Places You'll Go. And no-one wants that.
Aaron Levie: Not your typical multimillionaire
yes but the range that it will work over is significantly lower (iirc) without a lot of modification of the timing.
I think the real challenge for a kickstarter would be to offer attractive fpga development route. Currently xilinx prices their fpga-c dev tool at around $5K. My guess is that's the real limit , not the price of the zedboard.
Whenever I come across any post on Ayn Rand on Hacker News I think of Adam Curtis's "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace." I believe Rand's relationship with her lover, specifically how the relationship starts and how the relationship ends, summarizes her philosophy.
most recent discussion thread on the geocities acquisition, 2 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5722778
> Go performs much better than Python or Erlang[1-3].

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that performance is more subtle than can be reduced to a single "is better than" about throughput in HTTP requests or computing mandelbrot fractals in the shootout.

All of the languages have a specific area where they shine. Erlang in largely concurrent systems. Python also has a sizable mindshare in the HPC world.
I would say interaction and a point-system.

For more social oriented places like Reddit, people don't have to stick to one topic but can find a subreddit they like and talk there. They can communicate and share (or endlessly argue) over ideas.

An even bigger reason would be the point system. For all of the sites you mentioned, people earn points and reputation for commenting intelligently or with humor. This is an incentive to stick with a site and rise in the ranks.
I'd disagree that "reflect on death" is a meaningless platitude. It's a definite, actionable step. Whether it helps you or not is a different story, and really only you can find that out. In short, it's concrete advice, though whether good or bad I can't judge.
So can someone explain to me what they could possibly hope to accomplish by hacking into media companies? That they could publish propaghanda and have it go unnoticed? Its a serious question....I have no clue here.
You are not going to get arrested for having a young kid naked at a beach.
> if there is some ambiguity or possible error in a paper of theirs they pretty much always will respond

I just want to chime in and also mention that while proper scientists should always enjoy an opportunity for improvement, any proper human always enjoys some acknowledgement of success. I've implemented some cool algorithms I've seen in papers and emailed the authors to 1) Thank them for their research, 2) Show them my implementation , 3) Ask them for their feedback. Their email addresses are generally at the top of the papers, so I figured "what the heck" and the response I've gotten the few times I've done this has been amazing.

I'll further extend this to say that you should never be afraid to talk to somebody because of your perception of their status. You'd be amazed at how accessible top tier folks are. Often a key factor in their greatness is their ability to collaborate! But please, be extremely respectful of their time: Keep your messages brief, to the point, and pleasant. Don't fawn or apologize. Don't ask to ask. Don't justify or elaborate. Treat them as a colleague and they will generally treat you as such.
We don't know why people gain weight, and there are no known essential nutrients which cannot be acquired through eating cows. So what with all this talk about leafy grens? IMHO it is pseudoscience. (Although, I gotta admit, I feel a lot healthier when I EAT some leafy greens rather than when making a pedantic point)
Coupled with the recent news of Samsung "buying" popular apps (at least one thus far) to be available only on Samsung phones, this is really bad news for Google as they lose control to Samsung.
Canadian government comes to Silicon Valley to poach high-tech workers
I don't know what we could really do against something that's 20km across though.

Tow it out of the way.

If you see its approach early enough, which should be appreciably easier with a rock that size, it doesn't take much of a nudge for it to miss us — on the current pass, at least — and you don't even need to make contact with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tractor

If, OTOH, we don't have sufficient time to tractor it out of the way, let's hope we've established an offworld colony, 'cos we're probably gonna need it with a rock that size...
Couldn't you make a cheap FPGA into a frame buffer, not use a separate ARM chip?

Yes you can, integration isn't as nice though. It's pretty reasonable to build a DDR3 memory controller into a Spartan3 or Cyclone4 and the ARM PMI bus. My sketch has the memory slaved to a DMA control dumping RGB888 into a Silicon Labs or TI HDMI 'phy' at the requisite rate to generate a 1080p/60 display. The thought being that the RAM would be 'display preferred' and processor access would be 'when available'. Not as nice as a direct memory interconnect but easy to add to pretty much anyone's standalone ARM chip. I was shooting for something like the Sun3 color framebuffer on the Sun 3/60 which was pretty easy to talk to an pretty much hard to imply I'm violating Patents since those documents are from the 80's.

I couldn't get it much below $15 though, it is a 3 chip solution (RAM / FPGA / Phy). The Zynq absorbs both the RAM and the FPGA so I'm left with the physical interface. And in the Zynq case I actually get two CPU cores so one could conceivably do a full 3D software implementation in one CPU and have the other one run Linux and talk to it via a simple in memory mailbox protocol.

The Zynq is also already soldered together and trying to get the Digilent plugon modules talking to the Spartan 3 dev board i had was looking dicey at best. :-) I can fantasize about Atmel doing a hard core of a simple Frame buffer but its not realistically in the 'likely' category.
Why was Paul Buchheit's article criticising Ayn Rand taken down?
The political philosophy of Conservatism is more about maintaining the status quo than it is about explicitly supporting free markets (it is not uncommon to see Conservatives supporting measures like import tariffs or agricultural subsidies). Liberalism is the philosophy that explicitly supports freedom and minimal government regulation; Conservatives and Liberals found common cause over much of the 20th century in opposition to Socialism.
Interesting idea but it'll need some work. Let's say I have a problem - it takes too long to get from point a to point b. Do I propose a solution to the problem or just post the problem? If it's the former, my suggested solution may be too far reaching or not far reaching enough (teleportation vs make faster cars). If it's the latter, it may be easy to get people to agree a problem exists but hard to get them to agree on what a good solution would be.

Of the two, the latter is probably the better option. Perhaps I list a pain point along with the amount I'd be willing to pay to have that problem solved. Others do the same. There's no tipping point because it's unlikely that by simply having a problem I'd also know how much it would cost to solve the problem.

At any point, users/companies with the skills to solve the problem can propose solutions along with their minimum funding requirements and relevant credentials. I can select more than 1 solution and whichever solution reaches their minimum funding requirements first gets my pledge.

Or instead of trying to compete with kickstarter, this could simply be a step that happens before campaigns are launched on KS. People list their pain points and the amount they'd be willing to pay to have them solved and then you charge companies to add their solution/link to their KS campaign.
It would be easier to take this article seriously if so many of its arguments didn't reduce to baw about JavaScript not conforming exactly to the author's One True Paradigm. As currently written, it reads more like a screed by someone who wants to write Java code that looks like JavaScript, rather than actually learning how to use the language.
Show HN: My side project, and how it helped me appreciate other peoples work
This assumes you're using JSON in Javascript. JSON is a pretty widely spread human-readable data format now outside of javascript, and it's nice to have good tools that aren't tied to a particular language.
> I would like to add that recursive calls can be nicer than loops

Having a good library of higher-order functions that encapsulate common recursion patterns is a lot nicer than doing recursion by hand, or having to read code where someone did recursion by hand and you have to not only figure out how the recursion works, but whether the author did anything wrong.

Higher-order functions are control structures, and we should encourage their use for all the same reasons we encourage the use of while loops in preference to people building their loop structures by hand out of gotos and conditional gotos.
> who's only crime is to produce value

I feel like this is the leakiest abstraction in an other-wise sound market capitalism story. Produce value for whom, and on what time scale? Selling fizzy sugar water at maximized production creates value in the short term, but is a clear loss for public health in the long. (Not arguing for or against soda; it's an example of a generalized pattern of wealth creation on paper, which actually represents destruction of real wealth in the actual world.)

Of course, a similar pattern re-occurs in politics (representatives capitulate to the wealthy on issues A, B, and C in order to earn the political capital to attempt something good with issue D). The liberal conceit of electing a Good Guy to fight the Bad Guys doesn't necessarily hold up to scrutiny, either.

There are plenty of points to disagree with about Ayn Rand's philosophy, but I come from the school that says you should understand deeply that which you dispute. The author clearly does not understand what Rand is trying to say.

> only to hand that money over to another set of people whose only claim is that they need it

One last point: there is an important distinction to be made between moochers and infrastructure. I oppose giving people (for instance) free education simply because they want it. I instead support free education because it maximizes economic production and reduces crime, which makes my dollar go farther and my life better.

Should we find a way to accomplish the benefits of commons through entirely voluntary means? You betcha. But until that utopia arrives, the rule of law is paid for with coercion. The same force that says that someone with a gun can't just take all your stuff, requires someone with a gun to instead take a large percentage of your stuff. Cry me a river, hippie. ;)
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Maybe? Rails 4 isn't finished yet it is still in RC
Have a look at:
http://teamtreehouse.com/library/programming/build-a-simple-...

Then when your want to know more:
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
The videos were a huge help

I kind of gave up on it when they had a ton of security problems. So I'm refreshing with headstart rails from o'reilly.

It is a pretty complex subject. Just starting small is hard enough.
How strong is it necessary for the yen to be?
That's why it wasn't done until now. Things had to get so bad for so long that people would be willing to put up with short term pain for long term gain.
I'm not the original poster of the idea (although I think it does have merit). I'd like to see this fleshed out a bit more.
Stumbling Into the Cold Expanse of Real Programming
Can you feel the heat when you sit next to this antenna?
Philips Partners with Apple on Smart LED Bulb
>being stupid and forgetting to lock your front door certainly isn't a crime.

It's sidewalks all over again. If I have sidewalk and I don't make it safe for people to walk on, I am liable. No different with security, companies have a responsibility.
83 GB/hr is not capacity that's actual usage. Considering the overheads involved I would not be surprised if this was 2-5 times faster in terms of raw bandwidth.
No, vanilla tmux does it.
I think science can, with enough effort, predict most things. Whether it explains anything is an open topic of debate in my friend group.

Also, just FYI, that's a fairly famous quote that gets tossed around a lot. Although usually with "teacher" or "master" in place of Guru. (Does anyone else have a negative connotation with that word?) I assume your master was referencing it.
If that's the case, then they're idiots for getting rid of Reader without helping their users move to Plus.
So they're becoming an annoying Zurb 4 clone? I don't get it.
I guess I missed the part where someone said every other automaker should shut down all their dealerships and do it Tesla's way instead.

We're all mostly upset that the dinosaur automakers are trying to dictate the terms of Tesla's business.
Hey! OP of the article here. And good call - you may be right.

HOWEVER, if you download the eBook and don't think it's one of the best free resources you've ever received, let me know and I'll send you $10 via PayPal for the hassle. ;-)

But, again, point taken. I could probably make more tactful use of the popup.
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Ask HN: iPhone 5 or Galaxy S4?
Looking for an upgrade, and after reading and watching a lot of comparisons, I still think it's very close between the two. Which one do you prefer and why?
I should start wiping my history. A lot of passwords I typed in while focused on the wrong terminal came up in my top 100.
It was off-topic, generating uncivil discussion, and the title was misleading people about who wrote it -- not YC's Paul.
Holy shit, I'm more astounded by their fees. From the campaign home page:

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Here at <company name| google for 'fcc document contractor'> we charge 50 per hour for normal (non-rushed) requests with a minimum of a 1 hour charge. In addition to that there is a 10 dollar delivery fee for each E-Mail we send that has attachments (the file you requested) as well as 30 cents per page of said file.

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$10 per email?!? That's goddamn highway robbery! No wonder the guy needed $1000 to even find the info. That's crazy.

Fascinating piece of history though. Thanks for that!
I go to school at Cal. I haven't written any mods yet, but if you're looking for people to help teach, I'd love to offer my services, both teaching and helping to develop material.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they integrate "Summly's summarization technology" into their app, which was licensed from SRI?
"Updated class prefix for all icons: .glyphicon- instead of .icon-.
We changed this for a more unique class, but also for consistency with the newly required base class as noted above."

Seriously, how is that in any way helpful?
For those using ZSH and prefer history with timestamps (setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY), the awk command should print the 4th arg instead

history | sed -e 's/^ *[0-9]* //' -e 's/| */\n/' | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 100
Very nice. It's like irc + upvoting? It would be interesting to hear what direction you plan to take it in. Are you going to keep it as a personal project or try to build it into something like HipChat?

Keep up the good work!
This is called Negative SEO. Matt Cutts discusses the topic here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H...
HN should have some way to downvote submission like this
To be fair, the g and h names should obvious to anyone who studied function composition in high school.

Also, the names you gave don't help at all, as the idea of calling those g and h is to treat them anonymously. By calling it "callTwice", you are thinking about it as some sort of utility function, which is not the case. Shows you didn't grasped the idea behind it yet.
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Yes, I'm deliberately focusing on "visual design" or "how a product looks" in this post.

But I think you've pointed out something poignant: for many, design is "making something look good".
I've seen line-of-sight microwave used for similar needs, but not in built up areas.

Edit: clicking through and actually reading the link, the picture clearly depicts Microwave backhaul. Probably to a site in the vicinity they have a nice big land-based pipe.
A POPUP pane with a book ad just have interrupted my reading. My reaction? Immediately closed the tab, will never come back.
OP here. And not necessarily. You can be "over-optimized" without being spammy.

Over-optimized refers to having your SEO optimized to rank for a very specific, targeted term. Take "trolling motors" as that's the site of mine that was penalized.

Even if I built all my links via white hat, legi methods - but the anchor text of all the links to my home page said "trolling motors" - I'd likely be penalized. That's because in a naturally linking backlink profile, people would link with a wide variety of different words, not just "trolling motors". Because the concentration is so focused, it's almost a guarantee that someone was trying to game the system. Google algorithm updates like Penguin have really started cracking down where's it's obvious the owner is trying to rank for a word by optimizing the links, title, headings, copy in a way that appears dramatically non-natural.

Often, however, spammy link campaigns are also over optimized as well.

Hope this helps!
The reason is to prevent a car manufacturer from competing with independently-owned dealers who sell their cars. But that doesn't apply to Tesla, since Tesla will not license any third-party dealers.
There’s A WiFi-Enabled Arduino Now
any idea as to tentative release date?
There's no way google plus is fit for consuming hundreds of articles every day. How do I keep track of what I've already read?
> Contrary to what the exercise industry tells you in ads, you actually can't lose weight with exercise. Diet is almost always required to lose weight.

You can certainly lose weight by doing exercise and keeping your caloric intake constant. It might as well be that out of all people who want to lose weight, only a small % of people have the discipline/volition to follow such a plan. But that's a far cry from "you can't lose weight with exercise".
I just wanted to chime in and say that I also found the popup very disruptive and annoying. I didn't download the ebook. I bet putting it at the end of the blog post will get you better results (you should A/B test it and do another blog post).

After all, the people that read all the way through the entire blog post are your target audience. These are exactly the type of engaged readers you want to capture.
The challenge is that the definition of "what is design" (especially on the web) keeps evolving.

I think a good product embodies just enough design + engineering to make something useful.

The risk, specifically with visual design, is that we can "over-design" (in the same way that we can over-engineer).
That's peak hour usage average, but I have to imagine the bursts were much higher. Not to say I disagree, doesn't sound all that impressive
Around Update 3/4, Hugh mentions that he abandoned trying to work with the contractor and instead pursued an FOIA request to find out where the documents would be, used the money for airfare to the National Archives, and searched himself.
Yes. The OP was careful and modest in its rationale for why they reimplemented this module.
Good, valid advice. Thank you. For now, at least, the pop-up has been disabled.
A lot of programmers would like to keep it simple and fast. IDEs tend to be slow, and crash, and have extremely cluttered UIs. All the "polish" that went into designing the environment means that you can't change what you don't like about it.
I am at a loss to understand I don't think pg understands the issue at a gut-feel level.

And Lisp as a declarative language?

SQL being basically Prolog?
I've actually wondered this too. I remember hearing about these temp towers at the 2013 inauguration. I understand how they allow more users to get a signal, but as you said.....what is the backhaul actually on? It could be distributed through a cell tower you may not get a signal from is my guess (like 1 that's 1mi away), or ran on a fios network (like voip).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/cell-phone-towers-i...