skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Your definition of "Lisp" excludes Common Lisp. Precisely the same criticism of "kitchen-sink syndrome" was levelled at CL back in the day.

I don't see how a definition of "Lisp" that excludes Common Lisp is useful. How do you find this definition useful? You bring it up with remarkable regularity when Clojure is mentioned, presumably you find some value in it?
No, and I know there are plenty of decent people.. I guess their power is restricted by their conscience and compassion, and in that sense I wouldn't call them "powerful, period". Yet also plenty of others seem to like their power more undiluted than that, they tend to be generally be very good at ladder climbing, too; and as Aristotle said, one swallow doesn't make a summer. Another saying is that exceptions confirm the rule.

Maybe that's just confusing witty sayings with arguments, but until Costco buys out all other companies except Valve et al, I don't see how this changes a lot. I never said you can't work hard or "lead" people, or that big projects don't require coordination and that individuals take themselves back so the undertaking can go smoothly. But power that respects no criticism, no logic, and only bows to equal or greater counter-power, still seems to be the norm, sadly. Kudos to the Costco guy, this bit

“I just think people need to make a living wage with health benefits,” says Jelinek. “It also puts more money back into the economy and creates a healthier country. It’s really that simple.”

reminds me of Henry Ford, who at least got that bit right, too. But when you generally look at corporate profits vs. wages, the "Costco spirit" seems to be an outlier. That guy is plain not greedy, which helps.
Thanks. I think I don't trust myself enough to handle anything crypto-related.
Oh, I agree that we need to push back against this crap. But let's keep some perspective.
We're in a similar situation, from a quick googling I think we'd prefer to work with someone like you over an agency, do you mind being contacted at the address in your profile?
Sorry, you didn't convince me that your proposal is true. It's quite silly.
On 10th Anniversary 'The Pirate Bay' Releases 'PirateBrowser'
> They have always been >$1000 more expensive than a comparable PC.

Depends what you view as comparable. The price delta between a Mac Pro and a HP or Dell workstation with Xeon CPU's and ECC Ram is usually far under $1000 for comparable base models.
CSS is the epitome of design by committee, only worse. It’s worse because some members had a vested interest for the standard to fail. As a result, we get threads like this from designers, and programmers; they're in a worse bind. It’s just not possible to efficiently hardware accelerate CSS.

Of JS/DOM/CSS in HTML5, CSS is the worst standard. Depreciation is the best we can hope for. I’m sure MS and Mozilla will fight it tooth and nail, but maybe Google will pull a Dart/Go here and give us something decent to work with.
> It'd probably be a pretty far reach

That doesn't make much of a difference. The prosecutor only has to make the charge remotely plausible in order to coerce a guilty plea to a lesser charge. (This is what they did to Aaron Swartz.) With a 20-year maximum sentence, anticipatory obstruction is a mighty powerful lever.
Assuming everything is great and assuming everything is horrible are two sides of the same naive coin.
'The Butler': White House 'Forrest Gump'
Auditioning a bunch of presets ain't that hard either. His primary musical insight was to keep it simple rather than try to sex it up too much.
He's using crappy metrics. It depends on the instruction set architecture being used because a better ISA trumps more GHz.
HTML and CSS are programming.
M-x apropos was also a hugely important part of the learning process for me.
I don't think s/he was trying to. Only to throw out an idea.
Moxie Marlinspike's TextSecure.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/

Pros: Open source, written by someone well established as being both competent and trustworthy. Easy to use.

Cons: Android-only. iOS version coming out soon. Uses SMS as transport, but will switch to data channel with release of iOS version.
Full list of changes for 5.3.6: https://github.com/plt/racket/commits/v5.3.6

This was a bug-fix release. In Typed Racket, one set of fixes adds support for struct:, define-type, and require/typed at the REPL. The DrRacket bug with [ on some keyboards was also fixed. For the rest, see the log above.
I believe GCC's pure and const function attributes, like the restrict keyword, are only advisory and have no extra compile-time checks that your functions are actually pure or const.
How do you get in the Serengeti National park to take pictures of lions?
Yes, I would be happy to help.
Ex-Microsoft exec Bill Henningsgaard, son killed in Connecticut crash
This does not surprise. Research has repeatedly found that even momentary success boosts testosterone, and we know the effects that has on behavior, including a loss of empathy. And vice versa for failure dropping testosterone.

See http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/20090... for a basic overview of the effects of testosterone.

This fits evolutionary "just so" stories very well. Males in pair bonding species pursue a mix of alpha (impregnate lots of females) and beta (trade child care for access to one female) strategies. A successful male should become more willing to go for alpha behaviors. A successful alpha strategy requires not minding the real negative consequences of your behavior on others. Conversely beta strategies are going to fail hard if you're not deeply aware of the feelings of those around you.

Which is precisely what testosterone does.
A 2010 headline from Arctic Startup read: Killing Finnish Entrepreneurship With Tax

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/02/24/killing-finnish-entr...

Skim through the comments to the article: what are the general themes that are brought up?
If he combined them, it would be likely he would have to move to an HDD to fit everything. The part that's really unfortuante about that is that HDDs do not have the best reading/writing since the heads actually need to seek the data. These creates performance bottlenecks, especially if he's trying to transfer a build while the database is active.

Fewer disks, less chance of failure. it's extra important to back up though, since one disk failure can result in entire catastrophe! Losing an OS but still having DB and Code isn't that catastrophic.
Here's one, from Bruce Schneier some nine years ago:

> It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA "tweaks" actually improved the security of DES

http://news.cnet.com/Saluting-the-data-encryption-legacy/201...
Bzzzt! Wrong answer!

Say nothing, ever, for any reason. [0]

The only thing you should ever say to Police is, "Am I suspected of committing a crime?"

if (crime_suspect) {
lawyer(yourself);
} else {
print "Thank you, have a nice day.";
}

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Fun fact: decaf actually has some caffeine in it [1], and is probably the factor in how it helps the transition from a caffeine fueled lifestyle to general normalcy.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132260
I was hoping that the article would also mention some approximate amounts you have to drink per day to start to get withdrawal effects. Are there no studies of this?

As one personal data point, I drink 2-4 cups daily and a few months ago I decided to suddenly stop just to see what happens. The results were very unexciting: I felt nothing. No headaches, no fogginess, no significant loss of alertness (although I did need more time to "warm up" in the morning from my groggy morning states). Otherwise I felt normal and after a week of unexciting I just went back to drinking coffee because it tastes good and works when you need it.

At least from my personal study then, it seems 2-4 cups daily is not enough to get any adverse effects.
All Macs (and all competing workstations) use pretty much the same architecture (Ivy Bridge or Haswell).
How do they select the parents of the next generation? At random? Pick the more healthier (i.e. 0.1% more weight)? It's possible to do artificial selection by accident.

The only idea I have to solve this problem is to froze some mice embryos and defrost some of them in 20 years and compare (and some of them in 50 and 100 years).
Yes, I'm familiar with Illy. It's one of the better mass-market coffee brands, but it can't compete with a fresh roast from a speciality roaster. The freshness alone makes a huge difference.

Having said that, if you like the coffee that it produces, that's all that matters!
Any person who, like you just did, talks about evolution in terms of benefits to the group has a fundamental misunderstanding. It is all about spreading your genes.

Group behavior is merely an evolutionary strategy. And interesting group behaviors can only be understood by analyzing how individuals in the group are incentivized.
> So, what is its killer feature that makes ME want to try it out?

Transparent distributed multi-user environments and clean unification of files and objects are some of the main goals [0], but, at its core, it is a research OS, and has never evolved to fill a specific niche. Many people, including Alan Kay (I mention it because I recently re-watched a few of his presentations), have spoken out about the need for more open-sky/exploratory research. It might gain popularity if it specialized into a good distributed control-plane, performance-constrained systems, or as a container OS, but it is not any of those things. Try it out for the fun and experience of trying it out.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#Design_co...
Show HN: dlgate. Transfer files from the web to your Copy.com folder
No, PRISM is the facility that allows them to take data directly from backdoors in Facebook, Twitter, etc. It's complemented by upstream, which allows them to collect disorganized data on a much larger scale.

PRISM and upstream are the two data siphoning programs that have names.
Yes, the package as is will not route the bittorent traffic over tor, but since this is for people who don't even know how to use proxies, some of them will probably start configuring their torrent clients to use the same proxies.
That's not a problem in this case. All of the CPUs listed have the same Ivy Bridge cores, just different numbers of them running at different speeds.

If there's one thing Marco missed, it's that the larger L3 cache will help some single-threaded workloads run faster on the higher-end Xeons.
> The fact you remained silent after being asked a question can be used against you in certain situations, especially with a non-custodial questioning.

How is this possible given the 4th and 5th amendments?
Yet his description is precisely how I became someone with over 10 years professional IT experience and 6 years over that as a developer.

My 386 era machine at the time was without internet. My first experience was through AOL and Netcom in the early 90's. I mostly got lucky when things broke as I would fix one thing and break another horribly.

Slowly over time I began offloading large chunks of brain power to the internet as Google and others started really upping their game. Now, as a developer I don't keep syntax idiosyncrasies between languages in my head, I search. I don't keep esoteric error messages from Microsoft Office in my head, again I search. The proper use of Google has practically paid my salary for the last 16+ years. Once Stack Overflow came on the scene, my developer skillset took a quantum leap and I suspect a lot of people could agree with that statement. Now, I can say with certainty a significant portion of my computer literacy comes from my ability to use Google effectively.

I'm completely convinced that teaching proper search techniques to just an intermediate level would bring a lot of people close to being at least "literate enough." I expect everyone to be able to solve any user software problem they have but that should extend to the OS as well. Hardware problems aren't that much harder to solve but they generally require more practical knowledge, like how a specific peripheral behaves under normal working conditions. That can easily be taught as well but I expect only people that care to not pay ridiculously high prices for repair would care to venture into this territory.

Regardless, this is a long way of saying this isn't a Harry-Potter way of doing things for most people. It might seem like magic at first to a vast majority even, but over time that will turn into confidence and skill to solve genres of problems, not just specifics.
"About how the only way to get two columns of equal height, but that expand to fit the text, is to use a <table>, but that this is supposedly disallowed because it's "unsemantic"."

This is incorrect. Using display: table and display: table-cell allows you to achieve equal height columns.
idon-sa | Encode text messages into cat pictures with clientside steganography
I believe that http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/why-foundi... has much more actionable advice for founders who do not wish to be fired by their own boards.
I think the point is that it's not unreasonable for any sort of red-flagging system (whether data-mining or someone's gut) to have a false positive in this instance, because odds are pretty good that's what this is. If you're the FBI, the confluence of Uranium purchasing, in-depth info gathering on nuclear facilities and watch-words like "hacker"[1] and "nuke" probably should raise eyebrows. The reality is that this is the sort of situation that we'd expect to trigger a false positive even in the most competent and well-run agency.

False positives are frustrating and time-wasting, but the reality is when you're trying to find something as infrequent and stealthy as terror cells, you're going to have a lot more false positives than actual hits. We have to trade off false positives against the risk of false negatives (not detecting actual terrorists), and so long as competent police-work confines the impact of the false positives to these sorts of quick and semi-intrusive visits it's not that bad. Obviously if the FBI screws up and ends up with an intrusive and wasteful investigation here that's a problem.

[1] - I'm aware we're trying to reclaim the word, but it still has a certain evil connotation in the public mind.
I have the exact same issue. I find it much less semantic as well as less readable and maintainable to use abstract markup (i.e. div) everywhere.

<div id="rant">
Presumably the goal is to create a strong separation between layout/design and content as HTML is want to do. However, I don't agree with the premise that design is not content even in the context of translating 'content' to different display systems including for the visually impaired. A movie cannot be automatically retargeted to a blind person by just playing the audio, you must actually do the work translating it to a different form such as a novel, or scene descriptions read aloud. Sometimes as with say a Woody Allen film, you wouldn't miss much if you could only hear it, but something like 2001 wouldn't work so well. Like it or not the internet works exactly the same way, all 'content' does.

Layout and design is content.
</div>
That is why I created this
http://www.getjumpstart.me/

We had our baby girl earlier this year, which led to sleepless nights and several cups of coffee during the day. My dad who has been practicing yoga for decades recommended a different route, which involved a 10 minute session involving deep breathing.

One thing led to the other and we built this app to help everyone who may have this problem.

Sorry for the shameless plug but seemed very topical.
Totally understandable. Even though American culture seems to be seen around the world, you rarely hear of the issues.

In Canada, there is less isolation/insulation. I've stated for many years now that I'd refused to move to the US until their country is fixed. Which is a damn shame, because there is so much cool, interesting shit happening.
I'm a big fan of changing where I am, rather than going where others prepared the soil for my liking. Also, if anything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania :P
Indeed, and I'm not really criticizing it, it's a matter of taste, and arguing over that is generally fruitless.

However, while I could make such a choice in CL, or modify Clojure, the standard including indentation for such a fundamental part of a language is controlling, and if I want to be part of the community I have to follow it.
Oh, I thought you meant that we know MIT is harder than CMU. I'm hesitant to say that MIT is easier than Harvard, too, but for a different reason. I go to a CMU/MITish type school and I know lots of kids that can blow right through calc, diff eq, etc., but couldn't do an elementary analysis of, for example, a piece of legislation or historical account.

Also, if the average person is making As and Bs, you have pretty bad grade inflation (but then again I'm coming from one of the least inflated systems in the country).
TL;DR: Writing is slower, debounce resize event handlers, cache references to dom nodes or jquery selections.

Really the resize thing is sort of bs also because it is such an incredibly rare thing to handle (99% of all apps will never ever require handling resize except to test responsive designs)
around 2% here... but by far some of the best paying ones (corporates).
Yeah, a 3.0 is Dean's List at my school. Same thing.
Is taxation actually higher in the Nordic countries for entrepreneurs?

If you bootstrap yourself to $100k as a 1-man company in the Valley, the taxes come out to something like:

$7,000 CA income tax
$14,000 self-employment payroll tax
$16,000 federal tax (after deducting eligible portions of the above two)
-------
$37,000 (37%)

In Copenhagen, it would come out to [1]:

$8,000 labor-market contribution (AM-bidrag)
$24,000 municipal tax (kommune + healthcare tax)
$7,000 national tax (grundskat+topskat)
-------
$39,000 (39%)

The tax is 2% higher, but the Danish version of the healthcare tax buys you healthcare coverage starting now, while the American one only buys you Medicare in the future. So I think you actually come out ahead in the Danish system.

[1] http://www.tax.dk/beregn/skat13.htm
"Roped in our top 3 product ninjas"

Stopped reading there.
Does it matter? This Marco guy will buy anything with an Apple logo anyway - and sprout tweetable one-liners about how good and revolutionary said products are. I don't see why his articles are cross-posted here anyway, it is just fanboyism and praise. Nothing worth discussing. Here come the downvotes.
Pass the salt: Common condiment could enable new high-tech industry
These are truly professional workstations. The kinds of customers that actually "need" a Mac Pro, are spending way, way more on salaries than on equipment, for this to make a huge difference.

All this is assuming, of course, that the new Mac Pros live up to the hype and provide those amazing performance gains. (Hardware AND software)
Ironically enough your post is being downvoted. You are not allowed to disagree with the hive mind on this topic or you risk being ensnared in it's wrath.
That's a good point. Maybe I could change the service in some way to have the label serve as the memento instead of the cork.
As an opiate addict in recovery, and having experienced caffeine withdrawal: taper, taper, taper. There is no excuse not to.

Going cold turkey is an ego-motivated action, in my opinion. It's the 'If I can endure this acute suffering and beat it, then I'm stronger for it' attitude, and gives a false sense of inflated accomplishment. The reality is that you put yourself through needless torment so you could feel better about yourself, while a rational person whose goal is to actually beat the addiction realizes that their chance of returning to the substance increases substantially with how bad the withdrawal symptoms are.

If you want to quit, do everything you can so that you don't go back to ingesting the substance in question. That means reducing the chances you'll relapse because withdrawal fucking sucks and the only thing that will fix it is either waiting or using again. Guess which one your brain will try to convince you to do (hint: its the one with the least amount of immediate suffering)?
> If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

Thinking about this quote made me realize something:

By definition, anything received as a gift is not achieved whether or not it was received at birth. I think this quote could have been more elegantly stated as "A gift is not an achievement."

Putting it this way seems to change the implications slightly.
I actually wish that CSS didn't have so many different ways to write a rule. Have just one way to write a rule and enforce it strictly.

In other words, instead of being able to write any of these

padding: 0 0 0 0;

OR

padding-top: 0;

OR

padding: 0;

Just settle on one (the first one in my opinion for this rule) and get rid of all the other alternatives.
Here's another interesting library by floobits: https://floobits.com/help/floomatic/
Obvious cheap shot is obvious.
This looks fun I will check it out.
Is that a wrong usage of the term? Honest question as I am not a native speaker & I thought it was a expression that indicates we chose who should work on this dropping existing items to start working on it.
YouTube channels of the top global brands
Get a CHL and carry a gun and see if you feel that way. For sane people it's humbling, not a power trip.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge .. but this phone wont be available for purchase if you don't fund the campaign even if its success/failure . Canonical wont continue manufacturing phone and its exclusive to peoples who have funded, if its successful you will have to pay at least 30% extra to get it online from some one who brought from campaign (In case he want to sell it). So its wise to support the campaign so that you will be able to grab the phone if it is manufactured.
Every time a new Mac Pro model comes out everybody seems to do the same thing: goes to store.apple.com, spec out everything to the maximum, and gawk at the giant price tag.

It's amazing to think how as recently as the 90s it was completely normal to spend $20K+ on a Sun or SGI workstation to plop on an engineers desk. Now spending that type of money requires effort, and you'll end up with a machine with a quarter terabyte of RAM, four 30" monitors, etc.

Computers are so damn cheap.
>If we want to fight the government on this, we'd better know what we're fighting against.

Yes. The gov is very careful with their admissions. They have and will continue to narrow the focus of the debate as much as possible. Notice the President's proposed compromise yesterday focused on the possibility of reforming part of section 215 of the PATRIOT act. This might answer the original Snowden disclosures and should have been done weeks ago. The disclosures to date go quite a bit further than that which can reasonably be addressed by section 215 reform. They want to play a shell game, and if we aren't observant, they will turn this fiasco into a win for them.
Its funny how many people spend so much time supporting old browsers out of a sense of superiority towards web devs who ignore them. I've even heard some of these guys call us "Apple fanbois".
I love vim, but:-

http://www.vim.org/

http://www.sublimetext.com/

Which one would you want to use?
I was looking at SSDs as scratch disks and the like, but some of the examples failed in months. Its an electronic device, sorry but other than purposely putting in an environment that is not conducive to its long term health, like heat or dunking it, I should be able to read and write to it to my heart's content.

I fully understand commercial grade equipment versus consumer, but in the world of no moving parts it begs the question, what does it take to make them more reliable. Because some of the devices didn't last long enough for me to lose the receipt