skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it about ten years ago. Do not remember anything, because I was never able to find work as a Common Lisp programmer. Would have been fun. I know that things in the lisp community change very slowly, and wanted to know if the book was still relevant. Might give it a second go.

Is Clojure "lighter" (for a lack of a better term) than lisp?
They posted a screenshot to Twitter: https://twitter.com/HateYouCards/status/376735190434840576
I imagine this is caused by Go being so young.
Choice is good, but for too long has open source been fighting among itself. I commend Intel for doing this. They're hardly alone after all, they're just joining Kde, Gnome, Enlightenment and all the other open source projects that embraced Wayland.
Lego machine removes DRM from Kindle e-books
Sorry but WTH?!! 134/197000 is 0.068%. And if this was not enough, I read this -

A 95-year-old church choir leader lost her family home to
a Maryland investor over a tax debt of $44.79 while she
was struggling with Alzheimer’s in a nursing home.

Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with people in the world.
Its doubtful that the image can be recovered. The information really is gone. I suspect it would be easier to make it simple to have redundant copies of the data, rather than trying to fix the images after they're gone.
taxation without representation. DC barely has a local government. Its Congress who has jurisdiction. so yes, they are as corrupt as it gets. from wikipedia: "Article One, Section Eight of the United States Constitution grants the U.S. Congress "exclusive jurisdiction" over the city. The District did not have an elected local government until the passage of the 1973 Home Rule Act. The Act devolved certain Congressional powers to an elected mayor, currently Vincent C. Gray, and the thirteen-member Council of the District of Columbia. However, Congress retains the right to review and overturn laws created by the council and intervene in local affairs.[160]"
I believe it was The House of Sand and Fog. And Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly are amazing in it.
This is interesting - that was exactly what was happening to me as well. I got quite a few referrals from them when they were doing the marketplace model. Once they switched to the agency model, my experience was exactly that - they call or email me, I call or email them back, I never hear from them.
Disrupt: Junior High School Edition.
1. I'm impressed by the amount of analysis and the clarity of thought that went into designing this algorithm. It's not just something you can sit down at the keyboard and pound out.

2. This is a great example of the perils of re-writing code that you don't completely understand:

4.0 eliminated the "dummy thread parent'' step, which is an absolute necessity to get threading right in the case where you don't have every message (e.g., because one has expired, or was never sent to you at all.) The best explanation I was able to get from them for why they did this was, "it looked ugly and I didn't understand why it was there.''
Comparing to mongodb is a joke.

However some more advanced strategies should be applied for very large hdfs clusters. The rack aware strategy is actually better than what is described because the probability distribution is not perfectly uniform. It all depends on the hardware, the location... Etc. But with a very large number of blocks the probability of loosing data with 3 nodes failure is close to 1 unfortunately.

We could try to imagine a better strategy having replicas in cliques of nodes to mitigate the risk. Its a tradeoff of loosing more data with less probability or less data with high probability I guess? Haven't done the math :)
http://insideintercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web...
Not to forget the ocean acidification from CO2 emissions, which kills important ecosystems like coral reefs, while seemingly being harmless for jellyfish.
Hmm... At least for normal people memories of events that haven't happened in real life [but happened in sleep, video games, films, books; or just been imagined] are certainly distinguishable from memories of events that did happen in the real world. Even without external references. There's some metadata present that marks these memories as 'not recorded in the real world'. And even aside from that metadata, continuity and memory quality normally gives pretty damn good clues. No need to ask for 'independent corroboration'. <striked>And, if the opposite was true, you wouldn't be able to distinguish a memory from your last night dreams from a memory of a previous day. As simple as that.</striked>

Edit: rm anecdotal evidence.
Learning how to deal with the effects of technology, the instant gratification and the multi-sensory stimulation it provides is, indeed, one of the great challenges of the modern age.

The writer's specific examples grate on me. I do not think that most of them are supportable - they seem to originate from a mono-cultural understanding of the world which muddles influences from non-Western cultures with the effects of technology. His description of life in rural America is important, not because of the similarities to life in other historical cultures, but because of the differences.

Take the music. There are more cultures in human history than merely rural America. Many of them have historically relied on drum-heavy music.

Not just African music, either. Rhythm based music (often with spoken words) has been important to many cultures and is not some sort of new demon fostered by technology. I would "blame" multi-culturalism on its popularity, not iTunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxk7c38Q-lQ

I do not believe in the slightest that intelligence is going down - not unless you compare the elite of the past to the failing students of the present. After all, the vast majority of people either didn't have access to much reading material or have the time to peruse it.

We now have access to an always-on research library through the Internet. Does everyone use it to its full potential? No, but there are a surprisingly high number of people who go out and read research studies and long-form articles of their own volition. I do not think books are innately superior.

Does his suggestion that Indians and Chinese are writing the software, which Westerners merely consume, really jive with your experiences?

The drug war saved our country?

I do not want to fall prey to middlebrow dismissal, but these arguments unnerve me and I think the point could have been made in a better way.
Yes, strings are hashed at creation time.

This means strings can never be modified => a new one is created.

The down side is that string modification (including appending) in a loop is expensive.
See my other comment. I too think that using .map, .filter, and .forEach are a bad idea. But also, if you see the code I would have written in the jsperf, I'd guess you say that I write JS like it's C.

So, good point.
There isn't much to Monads at all. One problem that some Haskell beginners hit is that they read some bunk monad explanations and only get confused, and that monads get so hyped up that when met with the actual description, they try to look for something more that isn't actually there.

Monads are just a set two or three operations on a data structure, which obey certain laws. The operations are either ( map(function,structure), collapse(structure), create(value) ) or ( bind(function,structure), create(value) ) where you can implement map and collapse in terms of bind, and vice versa. You don't even need to know the laws to use monads, only to create a new monad.

map(function,structure) is a function that applies a function to every element in the structure. Pretty straightforward. For example:

-> map(addThree,[1,2,3])
[4,5,6]

Collapse is a function which takes structures embedded in a structure of the same type, and gets rid of one level. For lists, it's the same as concatenating all sublists.

-> collapse([[],[3,4],[6,1,2]])
[3,4,6,1,2]

Create takes a value and puts it into the structure in the simplest way possible.

-> create(3)
[3]

These three functions are enough to have a monad over your structure, and are how monads are usually defined in mathematics. But lets look at the alternative.

For the sake of explaining bind, let's introduce a new function which we will just use as an example:

-> func makeThree(value): return [value,value+1,value+2]

Let's say we have a list of values [3,1,5] and we want to apply makeThree on it to get a new list. Let's try doing it using map.

-> map(makeThree,[3,1,5])
[[3,4,5],[1,2,3],[5,6,7]]

We got a list of lists rather than just the simple list we wanted, but we can use collapse to get it into what we want:

-> collapse(map(makeThree,[3,1,5]))
[3,4,5,1,2,3,5,6,7]

And here is an example of using bind to do the same thing:

-> func bind(function,structure): return collapse(map(function,structure))
-> bind(makeThree,[3,1,5])
[3,4,5,1,2,3,5,6,7]

This definition of bind is valid for all monads.
I have used the list monad as an example here, but many other structures are also monads. You don't really see the power of what you can really do with monads until you use them in a language that supports them well.
In the actual definition of monads, collapse is called join. The definition using bind is the one that is more popular in programming, while the definition using join and map is more popular in mathematics.

I'm not actually going to show what the laws governing the interactions between these functions are in this comment, but I can explain them if you ask.
The person in question is in Austria, so as far as he's concerned a DMCA claim isn't worth the paper it's written on.
I reason all YC batches have been about solving real problems for real people. Though they seem to be focusing more on solving business problems. I did make that change from consumer to business and am pretty happy about it. Might even apply to the Winter batch.
NoFlo Development Environment is 99% funded
Yes I do know that. It's still a big disincentive to bother earning more money.

Why bother trying harder if the government will take half of anything extra you make?
"You can't teach a person to paint, or to write, because you can't teach them talent, the same is true with math."

Never a falser word spoken.
Excellent reply, and your position is completely reasonable. I would submit, however, that there is more variability in how and where people choose to live than your views can completely accommodate.
So you can teach talent.
As someone who worked as a private tutor in a high demand area and knows this industry very, very well, I think everyone is missing an important dimension here: the existence of dozens and dozens of competitors, both offline and online, many of which are a.) much bigger b.) provide IDENTICAL functionality.

The cost to entry of building an online marketplace for tutoring is pretty negligible, to the point that many have done this already. Consider these alternatives for parents, many of which come up on top in a google search for tutoring: wyzant.com, universitytutor.com, revolutionprep.com, veritasprep.com, preply.com, etc. etc.
So, I generally disagree with libertarians (especially, the 25-year-old white male type who know nothing about the economy and have never met a poor person who tend to show up on HN) and one of those grating libertarian tropes is that government is essentially an extortionate body, insofar as it demands payment for non-refusable services and punishes those who do not pay. Now, in general, I would find this argument to be very silly.

However, this sort of behavior makes that "silly" libertarian smear appear to be, in fact, entirely spot-on. All of this, the extreme pursuit of small debts, the tacking-on of "legal fees" to skirt usury/extortion laws, and the transfer of debt to more vicious investors (who are more likely to engage in usury, extortion, et al) is textbook mob shit.
1) Yes, and no
2) Both (3 servers)
3) We've analyzed/optimized this to the max (of our abilities)
How I built all of Namebox.io in 2 nights
If you want to borrow money to buy a car for example from an Islamic Bank they 'buy' the car and the sell it to you in so many installments at a profit. Same as charging interest by wrapped in 'profit' which is allowed in the Koran. Pathetic and hypocritical and the first to lock you in if you can't pay.
"20 years ago the scientific establishment rejected the idea of exoplanets"

What?! No, they didn't. The Drake equation even had a term, f_p, for the fraction of those stars that have planets.

Drake's 1961 shot-in-the-dark estimate for f_p was 0.2-0.5 (one fifth to one half of all stars formed will have planets).

Sagan and Drake were believers in the principle of mediocrity, which says that "the Earth is a typical rocky planet in a typical planetary system, located in a non-exceptional region of a common barred-spiral galaxy." (Quote from Wikipedia.)

Others were believers in the Rare Earth hypothesis, yes, but there definitely wasn't the consensus rejection of the idea of exoplanets. The consensus was more that we don't have the information to stay one way or the other.

There are plenty of examples of when the scientific establishment was very wrong. Geologists didn't accept Wegener's theory of continental drift for many decades, and it wasn't until the 1980s that Warren and Marshall showed that most stomach ulcers and gastritis were caused by H. pylori infection, instead of the then-consensus view that they were caused by stress or spicy food.
IMHO, if it's a political decision, it's better to be upfront about it (as Intel was), instead of coming up with some technical excuse for it.
Is there any service that doesn't require installing spyware on your system?

AFAIK they all force developers to install monitoring software, and then boast about this on their marketing pages targeting employers.
Velleman's "How to Prove It" is a great book to learn how to do mathematics.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-It-Structured-Approach/dp/05...
Re: ODesk - Screenshots count as video? That is completely irrational.My most recent experience was a contractor on there who was padding his hours hugely. Literally a 5 minute job he tried to spread across 5 hours.
Gotta love an inclusive environment.
"...the local government in DC..."

That might be part of the problem... they really don't have much local government. Congress holds sway in DC. When I lived in Glover Park I thought it was one of the strangest systems I had ever seen. Never really quite understood it completely.
And it's not actual effective in preventing fraud. The only real way would be having a live video stream + recording you can return to watch.
Seth Klarman: The 2008 Collapse and it's aftermath
Video of TitStare presentation at TechCrunch Disrupt that AOL took down
It's rather tempting isn't it? However it's too crazy. Too fast paced. Certainly for one.
This is so cool. The really surprising part to me is that sometimes the glitch is much more noticeable when you increase the quality.
Something tells me the clarity.fm model would have been perfect from a flow perspective.
Apple's Wearables Future
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/com...

Note "Ordered-by:" line, clearly intended to communicate Chris Wilson was ordered to do this, rather than doing it of his own accord.
> a judge with the power to use their own judgement (instead of relying on overly-specific, exploitable laws);

Yes, because a single corrupt or idiotic or assholic judge should be able to ruin lives left and right without regard for the law.

> the other is to implement some counterbalance punitive fee for wrongly harassing citizens - something that decreases the profit ratio for predators and makes defending people in otherwise unprofitable cases profitable.

And you have another system to game, another way for the scummy lawyers to beat people over the head to prevent their crimes from being punished.
Sublime Text Keymaps Cheat Sheet Plugin
Actually it was a founder-focused idea that jack had thought of first in 2000 but decided to shelf it. Also it was a failing podcast platform called Odeo.
The holocaust was only a fraction of the victims that died during the war. If there wasn't a holocaust but just mass starvation or more cities getting bombed in wars, etc, it could still be a net loss.
NSA: Still bound by laws of computational complexity
And they should keep saying that. I agree that some portion of government operations are dubious. I believe the portion is pretty small. The people I know who work in government are there because they want to make a difference. They would be just as outraged by this as anybody. More so, really, because they see stuff like this as shaming public service everywhere.
Memo #1 to Jeff Bezos: Try Washington Post Prime
A big part of uniforms is so kids (mostly girls) don't play clothing status oneupmaniship bullying on each other.
There are 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 possible 128-bit keys. So if you had a machine that could check a trillion possible keys per second it would take over 10 quintillion years to try all possible 128-bit keys.
At some point, you cannot realistically expect your interests as a class if you refuse to participate in the political system, for better or worse.

The notion that we can be isolated within a nation and refuse to take collective responsibility is a dream that has never had much foundation in reality.
My favorites:

1. Self-proclaimed "visionary" seeks technical cofounder.
2. Blue Screen Of Death As A Service
3. "Node.js is a Ghetto" by Ryan Dahl and Zed Shaw
Is it nuts to give money to the poor?
A few notes from someone who watched this streaming live:

* The headline is wrong (according to my memory, haven't been able to confirm yet); this was roughly the 68th hack (minus no-shows) since they made a joke saying that the next act was #69. The headline text has been tweeted a bunch (and reported by Valleywag :)), though, and probably came from there.

* There was laughter during the presentation and applause afterward. A few hacks earlier was an adult-themed hack called CircleShake (http://www.aol.co.uk/video/circle-shake-demo-at-hackathon-sf...) which might have set the mood for the audience a bit.

* They had a break a few minutes later and after they came back the announcer mentioned that hack presentations need to meet a certain professional standard and that they wanted to have a better tone going forward.

* TechCrunch has apologized via Twitter ("We apologize for two inappropriate hackathon presentations earlier today. We will more carefully screen from now on.") and on their site (http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/)

* Here is a mirror of the video:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ausf5taq1vy4g04/AOL.co.uk%20-Video...
Totally agree. This is an incredibly well presented article that makes great use of the web to create a more insightful, moving experience. Internet storytelling well done.
I used to share that view until it was proven to me that certain "real" memories that I had never happened.
Keep saying yes - just also Charge money. Around a 100 USD an hour.

If someone asks for a favour then two things are known - one it is good for them because its off their mental todo list and now on yours. And secondly it cannot be mission critical to them because it is low ranked enough to be a favour. So they care that you said it would get done but oddly care less that thing itself is done.

So charge money. Say Yes - that's about 12 hours work at 100 USD/hr

You are not saying no - you are just asking them to prioritise the things they will try and do. It's a win win all round believe me.
Any pair of colors except (red, green).
It's easy to gin up outrage by trying to reframe basic mechanisms of the justice systems of pretty much every modern country as abnormal or abusive. For instance, the notion that you can be extradited to face charges seems banal, until you introduce the notion that someone might want to "face their charges" in a totally different country over video link.
You have already forgotten what the article says.

"AG: How does this happen? What exactly is going on when we retrieve a memory?

"EL: When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience—sometimes from different times and places—and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this . . . "

The way I have expressed the matter before in discussions on Hacker News is that the problem with human memory is that read operations and simultaneously write operations. We think we are just recalling, but we are actively reshaping our understanding of previous events, true or false.
Is cheap energy, solar or fusion, one candidate for "silver bullet"?
what is the basic fundamental in psychiatry? how a condition is diagnosed and treated?
That just shows how many people were searching for it, not how many people are using it. And most those people were probably searching for the song, not the expression.
Thanks. I stand by case, addressed at the author not Schumpeter. But feel rather silly.
I don't think it has much to do with the fact that it is lossless, but rather that it does not compress in a suitable way. In the scheme of things outlined by GGP. Whether such scheme implies lossy is a question that needs to be demonstrated imho.
Ah, our friendly reminder that we still has a few immature boys who think the tech scene is their private bachelor party.
No reasonable person would intentionally give up their house, paid off, for a tax bill of $134, many years or not.

The number of people this is happening to and (one third of them over a bill less than $1,000) suggest that something about the process is screwed up.
Yes, I agree that your intention is apparently to support your own point. In trying to win the argument game, you're missing out on the deeper point, and an opportunity for professional development.

I've learned quite a bit from working in different languages. You may not have, but that doesn't indicate there's nothing to learn.
When you say it that way, it basically sounds like greed.

You assert to have had a good, long-term business going; but screw that when you can take another spin of the VC wheel, right?

I guess if the yard stick is always "become the AirBNB of <random industry>..."
Perhaps not if you consider they don't need to be polished or great, or (depending on what you're making) perhaps even finished. You just need to work on it enough to get an idea of 1) how enthusiastic you really are about it and perhaps 2) what the market or audience looks like (but mainly 1, because that's what will motivate you or not to spend more time on it).

The might not even be the most time consuming activity, especially if you consider what one can make in a single day (see for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155)
Clojure is more pliable, yet more robust.

Easier to learn in some respects, yet deeper if you look for it.

I've found it easier to teach Clojure than I had Common Lisp in the past, yet Clojure has helped me to grow more as a programmer.

There's very little that you can do in CL, that you cannot in Clojure. That which you can't is often very limited and unimportant ultimately.

There are many things that are either impossible or hopelessly painful in Common Lisp that are commonplace in Clojure.

It is shocking how much code I write in Clojure is either:

1. Stateless

2. Stateful and multi-threaded, yet thread-safe.
HTML5 Video Glitching / corruption
Well, the paper more or less put the article together because it isn't.
You're paying for her expertise in reading the results and making a diagnosis. Sure, the Theranos charts come back with indicators that show if your values are "normal" or not, but if your health situation is complex, self-diagnosis might be a bad thing.