skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The age and more importantly stasis is a fair cop

I don't see how threading makes "age" a valid argument. CL is a language defined by a specification. Implementations have provided threading APIs for a while now and library authors have written cross-implementation threading APIs. Without even mentioning threading in the specification it's trivial to write multi-threaded CL applications today and I think that's a strength.

In a similar fashion, C++ hadn't included a threading API until C++11 (iirc). Yet implementations provided it and library authors had filled the gap for years until a standard API was adopted into the core standard library.

If CL was a language defined by an implementation that hadn't been updated in 10 years I might agree with you.

As for syntax it's odd. Rich Hickey himself has advocated the use of syntax-literals for data-structures citing legibility as a primary concern. One familiar with CL's access to the reader and read-table would allow the programmer to implement reader macros for the same effect without losing compatibility with the rest of CL (and the standard implements a few: #() for vectors for example, '() for (QUOTE ...) etc). Either way preference of syntax is superfluous when you have programmatic access to your language's parser and yet Cljoure programmers unfamiliar with this concept advocate that syntax-literals are the way of the future and CL's lack of syntax for various constructs is a weakness. It's a non-issue.

I've written reader macros for various flavours of assemblers. It's quite versatile.

Age isn't a very good criticism. A good specification is meant to withstand the years. CL's has done a pretty good job at that.

wrt baggage though, I will concede that perhaps they specified too much in the filepath API. A conformant CL implementation today will have to support some very obscure filesystems... which can be daunting for prospective implementation developers.
I didn't straw man your argument. I said that your statement that correlation does not imply causation, essentially, negates the previous statement that you aren't denying human caused global warming. That is a thing that you said. It's up there. I didn't fabricate anything. I didn't exaggerate. I didn't misrepresent.

I asked you what would be the worst thing to happen if we tried to stop global warming. Then I told you to stop it; I would like to repeat that statement here, again.

Stop it.
Decent developers routinely charge $40-$50/hour on remote work sites like eLance - and these are ones in foreign countries who don't speak all that well English - so you can compete easily. I don't work on it since I can charge two to three times as much in person, but it sounds up your alley. It's common to specify a number of hours per week, or do project based pay and have the contractor fill out time sheets.
Good sir, surely you jest, how else we will maintain security of this nation if FSA will not monitor and double check every single transaction? What if some bitcoins will go missing in transit from source to target wallet?

First part of the post is indeed a joke, I am pretty sure comments on FX markets and strategy that exchanges could use to game the customers are accurate.
Also reducing population growth would be a good thing.

The worlds population has doubled in the last 30 years, placing ridiculous demands on our planet.
They used crystal balls instead of magnets in my psychics class :)
> The idea that Bitcoin could be an alternative to traditional money that would allow users to conduct transactions anonymously beyond the pale of intrusive government regulators has proved to be little more than a pipe dream

That statement is incredibly ignorant. Regardless of what any government decides to do, people will always be able to conduct unregulated transactions. The subject at hand is the regulation of money transmitters, such as exchanges.
A look into the nuts-and-bolts of Eve Online's single-shard architecture
If that's the case, then it only makes parallel construction used in the context of leads generated from wiretaps all the more suspect.
New Years Eve Outfit 2013
"FinCen went a step further in its guidance by including any person who puts into circulation a virtual currency, which means that the so-called Bitcoin miners are also subject to the regulations."

This is out of date. FinCen issued vague guidance months ago suggesting miners might be regulated, but recently clarified that they are not.

http://www.coindesk.com/fincen-bitcoin-miners-investors-mone...
How did regulation stop the latest market bubble related to the housing bubble and false ratings for derivatives?

I don't think scams are going away any time soon and there's dear little you can do other than to protect yourself with common sense.
Illuminascii – Text-based FPS Rougelike.
First glimpse of how HIV swamps the gut's immune cells
Still worth closing. If any states pull this off, they'll be pressed for facilities.
Could this be used as a kind of elevator tech? I'd love to ride one of these down a gigantic copper tube.

It'd be completely impractical, of course, but a whole lot of fun.
I would design the electrical system to support PLC control for all outlets and built-in appliances.
Euro- & Americ-awesome.
Plex is so awesome, I can't properly describe it. I've subscribed to the PlexPass simply to show my appreciation to the developers. For me, it's Plex + a Roku 3 though.
For example, to trade securities, sell insurance, or sell real estate you need to get a license. To get a license you need to take exams and pay money to be certified. Most people won't go through that effort and so the larger companies make a lot of money from the lack of competition.

My favorite example of mandatory entrenchment are the Series 6/7 exams for finance. I think the exams make perfect sense for licensure - but you aren't allowed to take the exam unless you are currently employed by a licensed broker. It's a legally enforced old boy's club.
Brew pubs and bike trials are mapped. I dunno about pet friendly, but that can vary by country. IM(limited)E Austria is quite pet friendly (pets in hotels and all that), so Austrians mightn't tag that.
I think the first part /is/ a joke.
Very interesting, I like the idea of a distributed sqlite. Does it support long term offline replicas the way couchdb does? If yes, do you have mobile support on the roadmap? I think this should be the natural succession as I find the choices for offline replication on mobile devices still very limited, especially cross platform ones that fully integrate with a RDBMS landscape.
It's debatable. I know two languages with significant whitespace, that's Python and Haskell. And Haskell's rules are a pain.

For the language I'm working on, I had started with significant whitespace. Then I realized that it would be a pain for things like anonymous callbacks (the kind of thing JS code is littered with) and that it was distracting. At least when you start, don't get hung up on the syntax, focus on basic things. What's important is what you are going to do with your AST, the lexer/parser part are the least important areas, unless you are doing a "syntactic skin" over a language (eg, coffeescript). You can always change the syntax later.
You can't make a permanent magnet stronger, I believe. I worded that weird. I meant a smaller magnet, that is powerful, and a smaller tube. My brain doesn't work so well sometimes.
when Chromecast first launched some enterprising individuals found an undocumented API (?) that allowed them to stream whatever content they wanted. Google promptly pulled that functionality with an update. Does this bridge said gap?
You could say the same about evolution; there are plenty of deniers there! But one side is much more responsible for turning into a religious issue than the other.
You might try: https://grouptalent.com/welcome/
I'm from Yellowknife, about 1000mi north of Ft McMurray. More often than not, we hit -45C with a windchill of ~ -60c.
The coldest it's ever been up here was -52c in 1947, if I'm not mistaken..
I agree exactly, and have ignored Grunt and now Gulp in favor of Make. Gulp looks to be basically reinventing Std I/O, when we should just be shipping these NPM-based tools with a bin that works via Make or spawn/exec in any other build tool. It makes all the more sense now too, with the early trend toward virtualizing devel environments in Linux VMs.
Google opens up Chromecast with new streaming SDK for iOS, Android, Chrome
That was a great way to iterate over a non-sparse array such as an array of objects... Back in 2006 when this article was written.

In fact, this was an even better way to write that loop in 2006:

for( var value, i = -1; value = array[++i]; ) {
console.log( 'index: ' + i, 'value: ' + value );
}

Basically the same thing except for the pre-increment instead of postincrement. In some of the browsers of that day (at least IE), preincrement was faster. And this version gives you the correct array index inside the loop, unlike the off-by-one in the other version.

I was so proud of myself when I discovered this alternative that I wrote a recipe for the jQuery Cookbook recommending it as the fastest way to iterate over a typical array of objects such as you might receive from a JSON request.

It also used to be a great idea to optimize your machine code programs by looking up the CPU cycles for each instruction. Fewer cycles = faster code.

Of course, that doesn't work any more, what with pipelining and out-of-order execution.

Alas, these nifty JavaScript loops are not the fastest any more either. Fewer operations != faster code.

The optimization guy for V8 explained this to me at Google I/O 2012. He said that V8 can optimize the heck out of references into an array where all the types are the same (either primitive values, or objects that all have the same properties). But if you ever try to reference outside the bounds of the array, it throws the whole thing back into deoptimized code.

And that is the problem. These nifty loops rely on reading the nonexistent element just past the end of the array. That's their termination condition.

It turns out that with modern optimizing compilers, the plain old traditional JavaScript loop is faster across the board:

for( var i = 0, n = array.length; i < n; ++i ) {
var value = array[i];
console.log( 'index: ' + i, 'value: ' + value );
}

(There is still a minor benefit to using preincrement instead of the more traditional postincrement in some modern browsers.)

I put together a JSPerf for this a while ago:

http://jsperf.com/mikes-loops/2

I was quite embarrassed to learn how poorly my clever loop works in modern browsers!
"Correlation does not imply causation" is a neutral phrase. It neither confirms or denies global warming, it simply says you have to be careful when you evaluate any given data set. If temperatures were dropping, I'd say the same thing. The goal of science is not to prove what you believe in, it is to attempt to disprove your hypothesis (that is science 101). Even if I were arguing against AGW (which I am not), it is not really in the spirit of science to say "stop it."
D is being used on an "experimental" basis at Facebook:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-...

That said, you're right. Rust and Go both have momentum, and they've both had big backers behind them.
Well-established scientific theories have long had deniers. That did not make them not science.
Web companies give first look at secret government data requests
We track clicks on each of the four login methods, and compare it with successful sign in events with each of them. So we know completion rates for each type, plus which types are preferred by users. Nothing fancy, just google analytics events + checking the users table.
It seems that those saying, “are we really this sad that we need video games on street lights to entertain us,” are missing the point a bit.

First sentence on the web-site: “StreetPong is a concept about playful urban interactions.” The last three words are the key here. I think it is a cool way to encourage complete strangers in a big anonymous city to have a little interaction, and then get to shake hands or high-five as they pass each other crossing the street.

Who knows what positive effects little ideas like this could foster?
This illustrates why the best model for content distribution is a hybrid between having the full back-catalog available for binge consumption while still releasing new episodes on a consistent schedule.

Exclusively going to either end of the spectrum has clear disadvantages:

– On the binge end, if everything is released at once, almost no one on the planet will be on the exact same viewing schedule. Some people will watch the entire season at once, some will watch an episode per night, and so on. It makes it difficult to discuss the show with anyone because you first have to establish how much each of you have watched. Does it make discussion impossible? Absolutely not, but it presents a barrier.

– On the other end of the spectrum, limiting the availability of a show's back catalog will obviously limit a show's audience. Most of the successful shows of the past few years grew their audience over time, which requires access to that back catalog. Netflix, being the most popular service for this kind of thing, is the logical place to license your content if you care about improving your show's future prospects. Again, not being on Netflix does not make it impossible to catch up, but it presents another barrier.

Breaking Bad is the ideal example for this model. It's a great show that built its audience through word-of-mouth; if their back catalog wasn't available, the word-of-mouth recommendation would be DOA because most people would not have broken through the barrier. Similarly, if they had just dumped season 5 onto Netflix, it would have eliminated the week-over-week hype cycle that built over the course of the season and climaxed with a finale that was watched 700% more than the show's pilot.

Also, releasing every episode at once almost entirely eliminates cliffhangers. That's no fun.
Climate sensitivity is still not settled. Climate scientists still don't know the magnitude of human made warming.

It's quite unsettling that anyone who debates climate science is told to STFU by people like you.
Google Told to Remove San Francisco Bay Barge
Using Logstash for logging with docker containers
As an ex-employee, you're entitled to the 18 months by law. The difference here is that Dell is apparently paying for it, not the employee (although maybe that's what you were referring to as the "crazy" part).
But then you would have to put a number on every work just in case you extend the copyright later. Otherwise you might have a 35-year-old work and have no idea if its copyright has been extended because it was not originally printed with a number.
Goddamn, there are places actually above the arctic circle with milder climates than this. Tromsø, Norway, has a low of -6 C (21 F) over the next week! And highs above freezing!
I don't think so. I think even ArduSat ran into ITAR problems.
Have you tried enabling dpm? When enabled with a kernel parameter it dynamically changes the card frequency. I think you need a kernel version > 3.11. Check out:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Dynamic_power_manag...

and

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index3h2
That's a problem with the comments for this whole post. AWS means a lot of different things to different people. While I focused on EC2, others focused on RDS or S3 or ELB, etc... it's easy to get off on a tangent.

When everything is covered under the AWS umbrella, it's easy to argue from any side you want.

I still think that it's important to consider whether or not AWS (for all values of AWS) correctly fits your workload. You may not need the ability to spin up servers within minutes, or have multi-datacenter redundancy in a database, or have virtually unlimited storage, or a robust queuing system. A lot of great engineering has gone into all of the AWS products, and for many instances it is probably overkill. And that can cost you a lot if you don't know what you're doing.
Well, if digital currency should be equal to cash, it should not be regulated just because someone left a technical door to do that. I.e. it has to be made equal to cash in practice and be unregulated by design.
You could probably use eddy-current brakes as a safety system for elevators. Many roller coasters use eddy-current brakes.

It would take a hell of a lot of magnets to strap to a person to allow them to jump down a copper pipe though.
Next language to learn? 
I've been coding in .NET for a while (ASP.NET MVC). I like the direction MS is going with Open Source, but I want to branch out into some LINUX type stuff too. I have an idea for a site that I could code up in about a month if I used .NET.

But I want to take the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and build it using all LINUX. So what's the best framework for me to learn? Ruby, Node, PHP? Which skills would be idea for freelancing (planning to leave curr. employer by end of year). I'm not too keen on Ruby, the smug Ruby developers I've known have turned me off to it, but I realize that's kind of a stupid anecdote to carry with me too.
Can't tell if sarcasm...
I gave a corrective upvote :)
To be fair, his house is completely paid for, so the $25k-$30k does not include rent/mortgage for his house.
This. Furthermore, it shows employees of the NSA that many American citizens consider their current M.O. unconstitutional and therefore unpatriotic. At the end of the day the NSA is made up of Americans and it's important to remind those in this ivory tower that America values freedom and liberty over any security measures that will come at the cost of freedom and liberty.

When a state bars the NSA from doing business within its borders, its sending a message to all NSA employees that the NSA currently does not represent the vision for America it believes in.
Bletchley Park spat 'halts work on rare German cipher machine'
State: Google must move 'mystery' barge
Since the digits in a UUID are independent, just overwrite the first characters to whatever you want. You don't have to keep generating random numbers.
ssh is handy if you're creating instances and then setting them up. However, if you're doing that on a regular basis, you might ought to use custom AMIs instead. Then (with proper "user data" management) you can just roll out instances that are already set up how you want.
> How did regulation stop the latest market bubble related to the housing bubble and false ratings for derivatives?

Deregulation starting in the Clinton era?
For anyone else whose first thought was "WTF is GridFTP?": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GridFTP
Fed tapering means there's less liquidity in the markets. That's because they're buying up less risky assets off the financial institutions. Less money in the market means less "free" cash available to be loaned up for risky investments. I wrote a little about this in this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7172139

Of course I can't predict what will happen but it's very clear that less money always means less money. A lot of businesses rely on bank loans to make ends meet with regards to payroll. This might not apply to Dell but it applies to a lot of small business owners who need the extra help until they get paid by their clients and then pay off the short term loan. Stricter payroll loan policies (when money is scarce = bank reaching low levels of liquidity) puts businesses in tough situations leading to sudden layoffs.

The Fed's goal is to try and regain control of the system (they lost control last summer). So by tapering they're shaking the tree. Just like you'd put an electrical signal through a black box and study the output in an attempt to understand how it works, the Fed is gradually cutting its $85bn per month supply of "cash."

That's what the Fed (Yellen) is doing right now. I'm sure they'll react if things degenerate too much.

FYI, it's a carnage in the financial markets right now. Dow was down several hundred points in Jan. Several hundred points just today.
Can confirm service appears restored.
Two creative minds and a love for this planet. What do you think?
Climate sensitivity is far from "well-established" science.
The inverse square law of force strength falloff would make it very hard to scale this linearly, that combined with the fact that weight increases with the cube of size means that the magnets involved would have to be incredibly strong.

Not impossibly strong mind you, if magnets can hold a hundred ton train car off the ground I am sure they could slow the fall of an elevator.

I'd not want to be inside that elevator with anything magnetic in my pocket, though.
Isn't the cooling water a closed recirculating system? That's how id design it anyway, seems wasteful to have fresh water pumped in continuously.
I can't imagine what that must be like. OTOH, I've been out in a few days where it was over 45C, and that's not pleasant either.
I've worked solely at startups my entire career, from 20 to 50+. Not been an issue anywhere.
Microsoft's Kinect recruited as Korean border guard
Reserved Instances really drive the cost down quite a bit, but yes, it's expensive.
Yes, this is all true. But the question remains - how much is that worth to you? For some it will be mandatory. For others (particularly startups), not as much.
I'm not a geek and I find the concept weak and the design weaker. And I think geek opinions are worthy.
Straw man argument
> The amount of time, energy and money wasted on this "problem"

You don't mean this, do you?

http://drexel.edu/now/news-media/releases/archive/2013/Decem...
> "only have a single sink device"

I'm sure the OP was referring to source (sender) and sink (receiver) devices. And more specifically that the only current sink device is the Chromecast dongle.
Certainly it could be an interesting phenomenon, but as written it is not really scientific as it doesn't have a very large sample size and seems to only discuss a single site's usage. While one may be able to extrapolate correct interpretations that is not a guarantee that future extrapolations will be representative or correct. What if there's just a time delay?

Maybe Netflix increases discussions but delays them a year.
I think that global warming is a positive phenomenon and we should try to accelerate it. Most people would prefer a to live in slightly warmer climate than they do now.
> it's incredibly hard to find a good engineer that knows
> his stuff. They generally have PhDs and years of
> training in math and whatever particular field they work
> on. If you get one that is actually doing novel
> algorithm development, each one is a golden goose that
> will bring in revenue for the company for years to come.

Like ritchiea, I admit I don't have a huge breadth of experience, but I've worked with enough PhDs to say with confidence that, more often than not, they represent a net negative contribution to an engineering team. Novel algorithms aren't useful if they can't run in production, and the PhD's I've known, with one or two exceptions, lacked both the ability and desire to produce production-quality code. I grew to deeply resent those "engineers" who would read papers for half the day, make buggy commits to prototype repos that never got released, and refuse requests from both peers and managers alike to contribute to the team's extant backlogs.
the question is how you quantify/measure the value you create vs. the fees you charge
This is a nice compromise between pure s-expression syntax and something a little friendlier: http://shriram.github.io/p4p/ (basic idea, get rid of the implicit 'begin' form from everything)
> You can fullscreen cast.

Since when? Source?
Hmm - maybe download your csv data and see if it reveals anything? It could be some kind of rounding. There's also http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/understand-your-bi... which might hint at something.
> It'd be completely impractical, of course, but a whole lot of fun.

And at the end of the ride, you want to take a selfie and email it to all your friends but you can't because your phone is fried.