skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Garnet and KR work you cited from CMU is what got me into constraints/declarative OO/FRP. The term I best like for this style is "Dataflow". Cells, which is/was a dataflow extension for CLOS (object oriented Lisp) used this term, and uses both lazy and eager dataflow.

It was a huge amount of fun to work in, because it made GUI and server programming amazingly productive for a small team. You could get things working super fast, and with very little bugs because so much of the bookkeeping was done for you.

And one of the secrets compared to other systems in this vein was exactly the eager default, with a lazy option. By choosing per-formula which model you wanted, you could use the system that handled the most bookkeeping for you.

The Lisp code is still here:

http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/

The old examples and so on are in the Internet Archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20081026054504/http://www.tilton-...
Well, let's hope they will go broke wasting money into the AI research black hole before being able to actually build one :) Otherwise, you are correct. A successful built of super intelligent AI is probably an extinction event for the humans.
Objective-C as well.
Math model suggests fishing out older members may destroy school memory
Logging in to Dropbox kicked me out of my game, losing my progress. Is it possible to open the confirmation in a separate window or tab?
Is there really not corresponding service that PC stores provide?

Perhaps that's a pain point that MS really needs to step up - i.e., help vendors selling Windows PCs to provide this service with some first-party cert or standards that a customer can use to feel more comfort around?
That Socrates thing is curious. His crime: "Socrates is guilty of crime in refusing to recognize the gods acknowledged by the state, and importing strange divinities of his own; he is further guilty of corrupting the young."

Was that just a convenient law to hang his prosecution on? Why not "inciting others to treason" or some such direct accusion?
This all rather reminds me of the thinking that brought about the female founders conference.

I have faith that at some point in the future this form of sexism will become less fashionable !! What were we thinking you will all say. And no-one will remember the dissenters.
Isn't business supposed to adapt to the environment rather than vice versa?
funny enough though, its probably equally effective.
Or downvote you to hell.
I hope that he targets the people you love next time he gets out. Then maybe you'll realize what an utterly worthless sack of shit you're supporting.

Clearly you're not clouded by emotion in any way. I've been systemically targeted by trolls years ago, I have some experiences. Not as extreme as what weev may have done, but then again I didn't post much personally identifiable information.

Can't say it's something to throw people in jail over, though it depends on severity, certainly.
Which activities would the SDK be able to classify?
I had this thought this morning, though of a slightly different tone.
The radio talking head mentioned that they were going to interview an anti-civilizationist, someone who apparently thinks that developed society is unsustainable and will be the end of us all. Apparently he advocates for a return to pre-civilization?

I immediately thought, "We need to be able to leap forward, not backward. If this involves some sacrifice of human lives, it will save trillions in the long run. Pre-civilizaiton is just waiting for the next asteroid to impact the planet."

I don't understand how someone could be against civilization.
>It is fascinating that were you to advocate gun control in the late 19th century, it seems nearly everyone would have laughed you out of the room.

You're right in general, though as <cadlin> points out modern forms of "gun control" do have late 19th century racist roots. But outright criminal prohibitions on personal possession of firearms -- which we had in the U.S. in some areas before the Supreme Court's Heller decision -- would have been unthinkable. So would effectively complete bans on carrying weapons both concealed or openly, which some areas still have until the Supreme Court rules in the next 2A case up for arguments this fall.

> But that sentiment has reversed here in the 21st century.

It depends on who you talk to. If you were in a room filled with libertarian-minded engineers at Google or Microsoft, and there are plenty of them, you'd be the one laughed out of the room. Or if you were in a diner in most rural areas of the United States. But in certain coastal enclaves, yes, "gun control" has come to have a religious import.

Though the taboo-to-question topic I thought of first when reading pg's 2004 essay (a well written one, too) was anthropogenic global warming.
"What can't we say? One way to find these ideas is simply to look at things people do say, and get in trouble for."

I was thinking of this very essay when pg "got into trouble" for his comments about female founders, whenever I see vicious backlash to dissent here whenever some of these issues are discussed. I think (haven't read anything to back this, absolutely my own personal feeling) that debacle may have had just a little bit in his decision to step down.

Read the section headed Why once again, it's gold. This piece ranks in my personal top ten pg essays.

It's so interesting that the piece mentions Summers, albeit one year earlier than the famous speech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_be...). I would so love to sit down with pg and have his honest opinions on this subject. Of course, not probably he cannot afford to deviate from ""i pensieri stretti & il viso sciolto."
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdry7b3hsomikm0/2048.png
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It's a very easy effect to feel.

> At this point, the last car still has not been passed the point of tightest radius. When it does pass, it will be travelling quicker and thus experience a higher acceleration.

Find a coaster without a long line and ride it twice in quick succession, once from the very front and once from the very back.

On almost any coaster from the back row you should be able to feel the sensation of being pulled over the crest of a hill as the front carriages pick up momentum. I think the back is often a better ride on most coasters.

(The front is good on suspended coasters though. No one in front of you blocking your view, and loops will often have the track disappear entirely out of your view which is quite an odd experience.)
>> By that logic, when a programmer is illiterate with regards to the law, they should be barred from programming forever if they make an app/SaaS/whatever that breaks any law, any where, for whatever reason.

a lawyer exists to defend and interpret law. which this guy is arguably incapable of, given his elementary knowledge of really simple technical principles.

that is not the job of a software engineer. i'm not sure your analogy holds water.
1) turn left

2) turn right

3) merge (merge current piece into facing piece, with corresponding shift in all rows/columns)

4) swap (jump viewpoint from current piece to facing piece)

5) flyover (view whole board)

In my dream I actually played it several times, some times there was a flyover option and sometimes there wasn't. It was way more difficult without the flyover option!

The merge was the best part! It was sort of like a 1960's movie style drug/Batman/fireworks visual event.
But surely you can't compare a hostile AI which can do unlimited harm due to this lack of constraint to the financial industry can you?
But since Santa only exists as a meme in people's heads, Santa can't do anything without the people in whose heads the meme exists doing something.

Similarly, corporations can't do anything without the people that own them and work for them doing something. So viewing corporations as quasi-autonomous agents is misleading; they can be viewed as collective agents in some respects, but in the end everything they do has to come down to some human or humans taking some actions.

Basically, the author of this article is punting: he's saying the problem is corporations being "effectively independent of human control", instead of actually looking at the actual humans whose decisions and actions constitute what the corporations do.
> Do you think you'll raise your children to believe in Santa, HN?

I'm sorry, is this meant to be a defense of smug superciliousness?
A blog about the evil corporations, hosted by Google. I love the internet.
a propos:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/study-says-attractive-men...

, in a controlled experiment the researchers conducted, identical business-plan videos were narrated by either male or female voices; respondents chose the plans presented by males 68 percent of the time.
With regard to The Santa Clause Argument, see also: Masamune Shirow's fictionalized premise of what he termed as a "Stand Alone Complex."

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

Long story short: People hear about an event or idea, which did not happen or does not exist, and aspects of that thing become a part of reality, purely as an extension of the collective psychological reaction of those who become aware of the rumor or myth.
proletariat
you could look at bidding out jobs on elance or some other sites and he could earn the money from that.
I'd be curious to know how your German taxes will compare to the U.S.
They could have at least dropped one hint in the blog instead of talking about how much people are willing to listen.
Absolutely, it would be awesome if people utilized voluntary collective action rather than coercion or fraud to assert their preferences. But why create a new, coercive tool that carries additional negative consequences instead addressing the inability/inefficiency to deal with the problem through contracts and the courts? What do you think causes the inability/inefficiency? I can't help but get the impression that people think that issues can't be addressed without statutory regulation such that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.
He says it's like "PHP++" but I like to say it's more like P#P.
One challenge is that there are some rational things working against diversity.

One heuristic is "Aim for as diverse a group of entrepreneurs because we don't want to miss any opportunities"

Another is "Fund people I've worked with, or come recommended by people I work with, because word of mouth is a better predictor that resume"

The first encourages diversity. The second discourages it, but is rational. It takes being very proactive to push for the first to win over the second, because you have to actively find something as strong as "Word of mouth from my network" to predict success. Bravo for YC pushing this agenda.
The best way to convince people is through examples (the total number of companies YC has funded is small enough that a few females who are highly successful would be statistically significant).

None are at the AirBnB/Dropbox/Stripe/Heroku/Reddit/Parse/Polvi stage yet, but everyone in YC knows of a few female YC participants who seem to be on the same trajectory.
The movie was really more of a deconstruction than an adaptation of the books
This is the textbook definition of utilitarianism:

"Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes utility, usually defined as maximizing happiness and reducing suffering."

He sees financial institutions as a waste, and therefore consuming vast amounts of resources to no useful or positive effect.
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My mother was insistent that my siblings and I knew Santa wasn't real. She was very naive as a child, and when she was 16 someone at school made a joke about kids that believe in Santa. She got in an argument with them, herself believing that Santa was real. Kids were cruel, as they are, and I guess it followed her for the rest of her school days.

My own children are young right now, so I let them enjoy it. I'll just make sure when they get a little older they know who's really buying those presents.
If future browsers include default grid display systems, then [YUI's PureCSS Grid Library](0) is a modern-backwards compatability layer.

It seems even to have a "leave no browser behind" philosophy, because you can generate usable output for even IE 6 & 7.

[YUI Open Roundtable - Pure CSS with Tilo Mitra and Eric Ferraiuolo](1) is widely informative with amazing demos of each of the latest tools involved.

The docs are split across http://stage.purecss.io/grids/ and http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/cssgrids/ ; overall, they're sweet and concise.

0: http://purecss.io/grids/

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4w3e-JRXy0
Using _ as a throwaway variable name is idiomatic in Python, Haskell, and Go. Looks like they're pushing the same idiom in Hack, which I'm ok with.
I hope this is tongue in cheek. Disagreeing with the majority your peers (as I've done frequently here) could still lead you the minority who agrees with you to upvote you. Unlike politics, it's not a winner-takes-all system.

But more to the point, and the reason I hope this is tongue in cheek, I hope nobody here actually optimizes for or cares about a "HN Karma score in the bazillions." Last I checked you can't cash in HN Karma for a fiat $$$ check or happiness. There's a bigger world out there, folks.
The world would be a little better if every software company could inform its users of security vulnerabilities and bugs as these guys did.
I wonder why we still don't have a simple standard way of dealing with abusive http-traffic, like RBL's for mail.

Way to often have I seen systems getting overrun with rogue traffic, usually spam-bots and vulnerability scanners, and lots of small sites get into serious trouble because of this.
It reminds me of this blog post by Moxie Marlinspike, basically people should be allowed to dissent otherwise we will never have any progress because nobody considered any alternatives.

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/we-should-all-have-somethin...
Would someone mind explaining what semalt actually does?

As usual I cannot penetrate the marketing-ese explanation provided by their homepage.
How are referendums not democracy? It's just direct democracy as opposed to the far more common representative democracy.

It does occasionally result in (in my views) appalling choices, but that doesn't make it non-democratic.
Yeah this was a pretty sad attempt to hide. So much so that I almost wonder if it was actually intentional theft.
Why Snapchat is Valuable: It’s All About Attention
debunked: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/google-earth-sos-woman-trapped-is...
Naah, corporations aren't independent profit-seeking AIs. They don't bother making money except insofar as their owners drive them to. Even in that state, they're subject to principal/agent conflicts in which people seek to turn the company's revenue into their own overpriced salaries / stock options.

Now, government bureaucracies may be another story, especially once they grow lobbying arms ;)
Yes it is. You probably haven't written code in a bad language, but they exist. Most programmers are pretty lucky these days.
What would be most helpful to classify? We can do simple things like walking, running, and driving - can also tell a user's mode of transportation (bus, train, car, bike, etc.)
Static and "weak" typing are not mutually exclusive.
I think you're just trolling. But on the off-chance that you may actually be interested in discussion from someone who does a lot of JS, has done a lot of PHP:

No, they're different. Firstly:

- js is the only choice in browsers. for server stuff, you have an almost infinite choice.

- javascript has warts, sure. but if you stick to "the good parts", then it is possible to use in a relatively sane manner. the compile-to-js languages are trying to make it easier to use the good parts, and harder to use the bad ones.

- node is different, in that bizarre though js may be, if you have to use it in the browser, there is a kind of logic to using it on the server as well.
Couldn't agree more. Improving the landing page is certainly one of our priorities!
I wish Nancy Hua all the best, but as an entrepreneur-quant-algo-trader I have to wonder why, if she was so great at trading, she isn't still pursing it?
Yeah Ruby is better
Nice work! The design is really clean and I really like the concept. Keep it up!
I'd say the financial industry is a perfect example. There's a nifty result that maintaining market efficiency is an NP-complete problem, and the standard assumption is that markets are solving this continuously and more or less autonomously in a way that don't depend on any particular actor.

Krugman's model of currency crises for instance ends up with "markets" as a kind of Cthulu-esque omnipotent, amoral, and inscrutable actor.
Legally evade taxes; buy your own offshore company.
Great blog article! Good discussion, but there was one element I would like to see discussed more about these 'store your data as a service' is the hidden vendor lock-in!

I can understand that when you are pushing for a solution, you make the decision with what's at hand. But this can lock you in to long term decisions, for example people who decided to use Google's app engine. The pricing switcharoo is doubly painful because there is literally no option except rewriting everything!

For this reason, I strongly believe that iaas/paas needs to be fully open source. Don't like your provider? Outgrew a provider? Company perished? Fine, run your own.

We have somehow switched from open source and the freedom that entails, to open API, and a complete lack of freedom.
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Are you referring to the Thirty Tyrants? Because that's the only time I can think of that Socrates was involved with tyranny. But the only thing I know of that was that he explicitly refused to be complicit in their tyranny (by helping in capturing an innocent man).
Furthermore, Socrates' death was a single event. There were no other people executed beside him, as far as I know.
The financial system is what provides farmers with the necessary capital to be able to grow the food McDonalds needs to be in business. That doesn't necessarily make them okay either, but isn't allowing people to eat, without having to worry about producing their own food, at least of some benefit as well?
Heyo. Agreed! That's something we are working on already!
> if you stick to "the good parts", then it is possible to use in a relatively sane manner

Is there any language for which this is not true?
I like this idea.

Is it really free to use?
Yeah... it's easy to criticize the financial network. So would you mind if we tacked on an extra N% to your mortgage payment, like you'd expect with less efficient financing? :)
Loophole4all is another art project by Paolo Cirio, one of the people behind the recently HN front-paged "Google will eat itself" project. This is probably one of the most interesting pieces of art and social commentary I've come across. Especially relevant to tech since Facebook, Apple, etc. are infamous for using these tax evasion schemes. (Note: the site was launched a year ago.)
The point here is that the generation of wealth, which is the conversion of labour and marginal efficiency into a number in a ledger, is not in and of itself aligned with human interests - it turns valuable labour and intelligence into a store of labour-time exchange, which can be used to purchase more labour, rather than any absolute benefit. The problem arises when the store of capital grossly exceeds available useful labour, which it does now in the hands of those who hold it. This causes inflationary forces, the results of which are very visible, and in this way the excess labour-time is simply destroyed, as it becomes devalued.

Money is a highly inefficient way of improving the world.
"Kemal Ataturk, an early 20th century figure that a lot more genocidal than Hitler. He also ended the 1.5 millenia long war of muslims against the west and the east, and frankly without him we would not have a modern time."

Bit grandiose.
They're not evil, they're not good. They just are. Blind worship and blind fear are errors of the same category: mistaking their nature.
You can bet money that if I want into YC my next startup will have a female founder. I'd be stupid not to.
Does VB count as a bad language?
Does it matter which version of python we use?
Men tend to exaggerate their skills. Women understate theirs.

See: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/19/women-hiring-ma...
I am not disagreeing fundamentally but you can't use your success as an indicator of whether something is good or bad.

The corporation that feed you might do other things other places to other people.

As an example the De Beers in the diamond industry.
As an EmberJS fan I had a great time developing these bindings and I'm really excited that Firebase now integrates with Ember Data! I'd love your feedback as I start to add new features.
Why not? A 2012 report estimated over 19 trillion dollars in lost household wealth, and contribution toward the largest number of people living in poverty ever recorded by the US Census bureau. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-fin...
What's your first tweet?
I can't help but intrude here.

The point made in the italicized line [1] above is much much larger than the typically-trite debate over the consumption of mass media narratives.

Reducing it to a talking point - about the power of mainstream media to silence skeptics - cheapens the vast and profound meaning embedded in it.

This is not about doves vs hawks. This is much larger than that.

That statement is not just about propaganda or consensus, at the societal level.

It is also about personal convention and the nature of agreeableness in itself.

[1]

If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't
also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the
plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s-- or among
the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have.
q.v. JCL
Are people no longer clicking on ads? I'm pretty sure Google is still raking the millions and billions it's getting from ad revenue. The environment isn't actually changing.
From the perspective of someone living in mainland Europe the legislation around bars in the U.S. is quite baffling.

I was over in San Francisco last summer and walked out of a bar pint in hand to tag along for a cigarette break, we were promptly chastised about it. I apologized saying that I'd briefly forgotten what continent I was on.

It's also not unusual to see children milling around with their parents in bars in Europe well into the evening. There's no demand that you have to be of drinking age to be in the establishment, just that you can't be sold drinks if that's not the case.

All in all it contributes to a more relaxed atmosphere around drinking and I suspect to overall moderation and safety around drinking.

If you ban guns in bars then someone who carries a gun around anyway will have to stash it somewhere before they arrive, or risk breaking the law.

I carry a swiss army knife on my keychain because it's a useful tool, I bring that to bars I go to. I don't think I'm any more likely to attempt to stab someone after a few pints than I otherwise would.
pitful? What job pays that? If you manage to find a job that pays that amount you have $960,000 yearly salary.
This can depend a lot on the particular peer group and the opinion holders position within it. Plenty of people will state proudly that they hold certain controversial views (often borderline racist etc) but they tend to surround themselves with people who either hold those views themselves or by people who are meek enough to accept the views without resistance so the social penalty doesn't apply.
That actually sounds fairly legit, especially since the commenter below notes that the union has asked for more privacy protections but not received them. Hadn't realized the policy debate was multi-sided.