skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Racket does not use S-Expressions internally, it uses syntax objects which are not really the same. Furthermore it makes no sense to even ascribe one surface syntax to Racket since it's more than one language really. Also if you ask the main developers of Racket if it's homoiconic they would probably tell you that it's irrelevant (and they would be right). In fact I have this in my IRC logs, "<samth> homoiconicity is a meaningless term that tells you nothing about macros"
The real solution is a distributed hosting and traditional interfacing system. Like YaCy but genetic.

People participate in it like in SETI@Home, Tor, or the mersenne prime number search.

"Site" code gets deployed in a git/bittorrent mashup with a web-of-trust system of signed certificates.

Code can be federated and distributed and not rely on a single point, ie github.

People access it by running their own modified DNS server that gets updated with the serving "exit nodes". (Part of the hypothetical client)

It is essentially Tor but no crazy onion URLs, direct connections, and divestment at the back end.

The user downloads the client, runs it and that's it.

Pick some TLD that sounds safe for the taking, like .!com and we're good to go.

There's even a trendy new currency that makes ecommerce viable using this system. ;). It's all there.

I've implemented bits and pieces over the years. But never gotten the full model working.

Everything from domain registration to fair load balancing all have hard, but feasible solutions.

And what do you get for it? The same freedom that bittorrent and bitcoin give you, but for everything. You get it all.
Yes and no.

You can consider buying a newspaper a donation.

Actually what you suggest already has been tried in various forms, the outcome being stuff like indymedia, but also others. The problem you face here is that having no ads in your news usually means having no money for:

marketing, getting out your stuff. A lot of things are already know anyway somewhere, just that person isn't loud enough or nobody cares.

lawyers, if you don't want to do just public relations then you will need lots of them.

reportages, that often require a lot of preparation, going to other countries, hidden cameras, tons of other equipment, etc.

fallback money in case something goes really bad.

It's sad, but it feels a bit like if there were enough donating people for serious news then the world would already be better and require it way less.

Also you saw the Wikileaks drama. I can be kinda rough.
A little off on Chrome for Linux, though.

http://i.imgur.com/sC0xuy9.png
The company PR is quite obviously, as claimed, "disingenuous":

> The spokeswoman insisted that the insects are treated humanely and that the backpack - first developed in 2011 - does not harm them.

Boring a hole in the head, and then another hole in the chest, and then clipping the antennae, so you can attach an apparatus which appears to roughly half the size of the roach itself and which exerts major control over its motion, does not approach "humane". Anyone found doing this to humans could very reasonably be lynched.

I'd prefer to see the company own it. To repurpose an argument I first saw on that bastion of philosophical thought cracked.com, "Cockroaches? Fuck 'em." Focus on the scientific potential of remote-controlled cockroaches.

Cockroaches have no rights that man is bound to respect. [1] There are no conceivable benefits to extending them any rights. And I'm not particularly worried that a child who grows up thinking of insects as something to be used or abused as they see fit will mistreat humans. I burned ants with a magnifying glass. It didn't seem to bother anyone. I went on to burn my sister's name into a block of wood as a gift. That's pretty much where things ended.

If a child of mine showed any interest in this sort of thing, I'd be happy to sponsor it.

The article actually made me wonder whether the cockroach lives through installation; I have read that cockroaches "live on" for a period of weeks after being beheaded. It would be really, really cool to get something like this that

- didn't prevent other cockroaches from accepting the bugged one

- didn't block the roach from fitting through gaps it would normally be able to fit through.

- included a highly miniaturized video camera

> It's the reason people put sickly pets down, rather than letting them suffer for months.

People are generally (there might be exceptions) more attached to their own pets than they are to other people's cockroaches.

[1] http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/no-rights-which-the-white-man-...
Well, there's little risk to Shopify in allowing bitcoins to be used. Any risk is still on the seller.
Exactly my thoughts. The experience is very jarring, plus the whole "use your real name in YouTube" thing that Google has got going on is annoying at best.
Pyzone, avoid the HN-Reddit loop
Just a quick script, don't take it too serious. :)
you're lucky you didn't get your seller account banned. I sold on Amazon a couple of years ago and had 100% feedback. A customer ordered a book from me, claimed they never got it, and filed a claim.

I normally just take my losses and refund asap in these situations, but I was given no chance because the customer filed it right away.

Amazon banned my account within an hour of the claim. I thought it was a mistake and tried to contact seller support. Little did I know that there is no support. There was a maze of automated responses..and then a permanent ban. I can't signup to any Amazon services to this day.

I'm just shocked that Amazon can get away with taking as much as 16% from a seller..and then offer almost no support.

Even worse is the fact that you can build a business for years on Amazon..with little to show for it. You don't get any contact info. When your account is banned, your business is done. It's too much power to put in the hands of a company that has no respect for its sellers.
Just in time compilation is not interpretation. Being two times faster is claimed several times, but no further specifics are given.

This article is just bad.
They could also see your browser and OS, but that is not even remotely unique or descriptive about you as a person.

Well, there is this: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Nate Silver wouldn't have a job without advertisement. Neither would Glenn Greenwald, Walter Cronchite, Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, or Peter Jennings.

TV shows like Seinfeld, Friends, The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and M.A.S.H. would not exist without ads.

Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Michael Tyson, Tiger Woods, and Larry Byrd would not have done the things they did without ads - no one would have paid them to.

Ads pay for people who are good at what they do to do what they're good at what they do as a means to pay for the other things they have to do. You couldn't possibly be more wrong about advertisements - without ads, there would be no US as you know it today.
Actually, if you are corresponding with me, it's marginally useful if your email leaks your IP.

It means I can select Show Original in Gmail and see your X-Originating-IP header. Then I can run your IP against, for example, MaxMind† and see if you are (1) at home, (2) at your office, (3) visiting your in-laws in Santa Fe, or (4) somewhere else.

Of course, there's a slight asymmetry: Gmail does not supply the X-Originating-IP header. So you can't, in turn, look me up on MaxMind. But, if you are my Gmail correspondent, you probably don't know about the header, anyway.

†http://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip_demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdku9YhSCI
You all already have a nice looking google+ url, you just don't know about it. It's:

http://profiles.google.com/first_part_of_your_gmail_email

For example, my email is peteris.krumins@gmail.com, and my google+ url is:

http://profiles.google.com/peteris.krumins

.
Right.... teach kids that torturing animals is okay and desensitize them.

This should end well. We definitely don't have enough mass-killings in society today.
> how would a human attached to one of these perceive the foreign control?

"I have to turn left because it's my job."
Somebody flag this article for stupidity. Dear submitter, what were you thinking?
A classic case of Singapore indoctrination. Living there myself, I can tell you that customer service and efficiency is just plain bad - the level of service you get in most stores would require most of them to close down if they were to be located in Western Europe.

Public housing is run as a tight ship, because the government makes tons of money from it - supply is so tightly regulated just to make sure that prices don't go down - why don't you just ignore that it makes accommodation for a lot of people nearly impossible, that it has increased the wealth gap, and that the city is as gentrified as it can get, turning it into sterile and boring place, playground for the rich. Measures to cool the market are just measures to prevent a popping bubble, but definitely no measures to make it affordable for those who can't pay for it (now, and probably never will).

Sure, Changi is part of another league when it comes to airports, and the MRT is one of the better public transport systems (yet still miles away from Japan or Seoul IMO) but please, don't generalise it for all Singapore businesses.
> If this would work on a human, how would a human attached to one of these perceive the foreign control? I'd imagine these electrodes would reproduce the brain signals that cause our muscles to move, but not alter our consciousness. So we would be aware that our own bodies were moving and responding to someone else's control. Imagine for example, wanting to stop walking but your body keeps on putting one foot in front of the other. Scary to lose control.

There is existing research relevant to this question. It concerns people whose corpus callosum (the cable connecting the brain's right and left hemispheres) has been cut.

It's possible to present such a person with something (here, a sign with words written on it) that is only visible to one of their eyes, and thus one hemisphere of their brain. It is also possible for such a person to be not consciously aware of what one of their eyes is seeing.

If you present, in the field of view which doesn't have conscious awareness, a sign saying e.g. "please stand up", they will. If you then ask them why they did it, they won't know, but they won't say that; they'll make something up like "I was going to get a Coke".

There is no evidence that they're being deceptive. So it's quite possible that you'd perceive your controlled actions as voluntary. (I'm not taking a position as to whether that's more or less horrifying than perceiving the control.)
I would like to imagine this is more for awareness. Why would exchange server want to include x-originating-ip? Is it for validation and authentication? Do we not trust people who have obviously have authenticated as people with the privilege to send emails from a certain server?

Do we need to include this information in our email headers? Is it not enough to include the IP address of the mail server? Perhaps there is a need to do this?

I was just listening to Douglas Crockford[0] in a podcast where he talks about CR/LF and how we can't decide on whether A is correct or B is correct so we do both A and B which fits neither A's position or B's position so we pick something so neither side feels like they lost. The argument is that this middle-ground is worse than either side of the proposition.

Perhaps I am wrong. However, it is still good to know why we include this information in our emails. Is it simply a case of "we have this information, why not just include it?" or is it something to check against transaction logs? Perhaps a "distributed" way to add audit records of who logged on to the mail server? There had to be some reason why they included it, right?

[0] http://hanselminutes.com/396/bugs-considered-harmful-with-do...
The west should make it absolutely clear that it considers these politically motivated actions illegal trade barriers and that it will retaliate.

While some companies - most notably Google - do the right thing against their own interests, you are right that this isn't something that can be expected of profit driven corporations in general. That's exactly why governments should act.

But we can all do somthing to make it clear this is unacceptable:

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

[Edit] And don't forget:

User-agent: QihooBot
Disallow: /
Note that in Starship Troopers, the novel, the franchise was restricted to service veterans, not necessarily military. And currently serving troops or other government workers were not eligible to vote.
Mitsubishi corporation. Pretty much anything and everything from toasters to trains.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+are+cruise+ship+wor...

That their working conditions are only mostly terrible is sufficient for me to act on my values.

I'll give analogy. WalMart screws their workers, their suppliers, and their host governments (and by extension us tax payers). Not in every case. But enough to piss me off.

So, yea, I'm not shopping at WalMart. Maybe they're not all bad. Sorting it all out is too much work. Especially when I have plenty of options that are mostly good.
How to survive your first year as an enterpreneur
The one area that I really like about Singapore is their taxi. They are cheap enough that I wouldn't think twice about using it rather than the trains or the buses. They are everywhere, even in smaller suburban areas. The drivers may be a little bit off-handish, but I am looking for a ride not a conversation.
2-3 weeks? I was thinking just the day or two before actually, and only the handful of really popular tech stocks. Thanks for your patronizing put down though.
Headline is inaccurate (the Nexus 5 has 4.4 but doesn't use ART by default) and the article author doesn't understand the relationship between interpreters and JIT.

Not front page material.
Punching up vs punching down.
Trivial? Let's assume attacking the Bitcoin network would be a project falling in the hands of the most well-funded Chinese government agency: the military. (It would not, but let's assume it). This represents about 3-4% of their annual budget (~$100B), which is not quite insignificant.
Some Basic Leadership Principles To Think About | Takis Athanassiou
>Managers, generally speaking, are never going to rate their team member down if that means their team will be effected by the layoff.

Where I work they forced all the managers to give up an employee for the Y2K team. Of course they all recommended their least productive team member. Then the entire team was laid off in mid-2000.
I still don't really understand what you are wondering. If we're talking about post-pricing, then, yes, Twitter can't make more money (actually it can because of the over-allotment which of course would only get exercised if the price goes up; another reason to hope for upward movement).

Twitter was clearly playing the whole thing conservatively and aagreed to a price that was probably low (hindsight to some, foresight to most).

There's some incentive so appease the banks as they historically do play a meaningful role going forward as related to M&A and fundraising.

The Google IPO was lousy not because it only popped 18% but because the auction format severely depressed the whole thing. Google inexplicably got pretty much the same result as Twitter ($1,8b on a $23b valuation) despite being an order of magnitude more impressive (I like Twitter).
I have a script that pulls my upvotes from HN and posts them on my bookmarks site tagged "hackernews": http://aaron.pk/bookmarks/
Will be interesting to see if Shopify (or anyone in general ecommerce) ever reports on the popularity of Bitcoin as a payment method considering there is no sense at all to use Bitcoins to purchase legal items in the vast majority of countries.
"All social interactions at some level of depth eventually involve pursuasion of a sort. The question is when does that become unethical?"

Truly A question we all must answer for ourselves.
This is a very interesting article. Particularly commendable is the complete listing of the source papers, so that readers can delve more deeply into the material.

I wonder, however, whether the surname analysis took into account the effects of the changes in surname frequency over time -- as I recall, it was Galton who investigated statistically how the surname distributions change with time, and the point is that the number of unique surnames goes down over time, because each child usually has only one of their parents' surnames. So it's not clear to me that we would expect the wealth distribution of uncommon surnames to become more equal over time. Maybe that would explain the disparity between the surname analysis and other measures of social mobility?
No reason to use Bitcoin to purpose legal items? How about not having to divulge your credit card or bank account details to sellers? This exact same problem is apparently important enough that even the established players are trying to solve it, with things like one-time use credit card numbers and third-party authentication pages.
At least the TOS are honest and transparent. Even if Google did not warn specifically that they can kick people out or start asking for money, they would of course be free to do so. So, is it worse if Google reminds you that you have no guarantees whatsoever? ...
Is it practical to make eyewear (glasses) lenses from sapphire?

I'm brutal on my glasses. I'd happily pay for tougher lenses. Though I did see mention that the failure mode for sapphire is lots of shards flying. So maybe I'll wait.
> - Most users just click OK for installers, it is like the EULA

This installer specifically has a separate page for the offer with a big Accept and Decline button along with a What's This link in between that links to a page explaining it.

> - I am yet to see a toolbar that does anything useful to anybody

They also offer trial versions of certain software like antivirus and were working on getting other software on board last I chatted with them.

Like I said, I'm not involved in the process at present and do not participate in the optional bundling program. Bundling 3rd party offers is prohibited within PortableApps.com Format.
If you run your own SMTP server and want to anonymize your E-Mail e.g. for mailing lists or whatever it's not that complicated: https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/mail
1993. I considered registering cocacola.com, sex.com, shell.com, etc. etc. Spent the money on consumables instead.

There are few moments I remember as clearly as making that decision.
It's less "advertising for yourself" when you make up bullshit stories and copy "routines" that someone else made to make girls interested in you.

It's not cool. Yes, learn social interaction. Yes, learn how the other sex work. Yes, learn how they think. But PUA isn't this: it's gaming women for sex.
No, it is not. It is mostly paid for by ads on the website. There are only a handful of SourceForge projects trying out this new, 100% optional, offer-based installer. PortableApps.com is not one of them. Bundling 3rd party offers is not permitted within PortableApps.com Format apps.
Ethics of Culture Sharing In The Digital Economy
Okay, this will make me sound like fanboyism (I guess it is, but I am an Arch user - with our company running their servers on FreeBSD), but you might also like:

* http://www.slackware.com/

* http://www.freebsd.org/

* http://www.netbsd.org/

* http://www.openbsd.org/

* http://www.dragonflybsd.org/

All of them are used in production, search engines (at least FreeBSD (Google backends and DuckDuckGo) and DragonFly BSD), space crafts (at least NetBSD (ISS)), internet service providers (all of them), resarch agencies (all of them), US government/military (well, I am not sure about DragonFly BSD in this case).
It's hardly a canonical source, but very much on the 'seemingly magical' side of things -- there's a Twitter account devoted to crawling old boards and pages and tweeting interesting snippets.

https://twitter.com/wwwtxt

Incredibly wonderful -- and very surreal. It's bizarre to think that only twenty years ago, the Internet was an entirely different culture.
Hey guys, can someone tell me what exactly is an SDK, or rather how do you design one?

Case in point:

Does the Amazon SDK include their source code?

So, let's say if Amazon offers me an SDK that I can install on my servers to capture analytics on my site. So does that mean, that the SDK they provide me with actually contains their whole source code of their analytics platform?

The way I understand SDK's are a local piece of software that runs on your machine to provide you with an API that you can use. Can someone please straighten this poor soul?

Thanks :)
That was one of the things I brought up with them and offered up a solution that would not require an offer-based installer that then downloaded the actual file the user wanted. It would be open source and based on work I've done with PortableApps.com for several years.
Well, current DCC tools market is really sucks by Autodesk monopoly. I wish this to be a real competitive solution so the market to get real innovations.
http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/halftone_QR/...

http://140.114.79.59:99/halftoneQRC.aspx
You are right in many aspects in regards to Apache 2.4 and NGINX. However, when traffic and intensity of traffic ramps up, you notice that NGINX still comes out in front in terms of CPU usage especially, like night and day in most cases. If you run both on different machines and send the same amount of traffic to them, the system monitor shows that NGINX easily uses less CPU. Apache's real strength is its market share, not its track record for being resource respective.

Cool stuff though guys, good to see some MongoDB ready stacks and looking forward to what else you release in the coming months.
they need to go back and fix all versions. Including on Windows XP.

Closest that I have is this but that is because it turned to be a security issue:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2013/07/how-i-found-cve-2013-13...
It's amazing how this works, I've been Paying some attention to this stuff for some time, and it is mostly like that. I've observed 3rd generation families of wealthy landlords and/or bankers (the ones that made the fortune). It's just anecdotal, but the ones that put more effort and attention on education and hardwork (not having access to the money till they are out of the university and have proved their capabilities) are the ones able to mainatain or increase the wealth of the family. On the other hand, those that just surf their lives through the existing money, are able to put themselves down the ladder at surprising speed (like 15 years once they get access to the principal of the money) their sons will be low middle class (or mileuristas as we say in Spain).
All this is obvious of course, but It's interesting to follow this people's evolution. The ones loosing it don't have a clue of what's happening to them.

Edit: some typos and sentences.
Most companies block torrents. And software that does torrent downloads often gets flagged as badware.

We considered building torrent into the PortableApps.com Platform and getting users to help share bandwidth with other users, but those stumbling blocks are pretty big ones.
You're not really involved in the security community, are you.