skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that Lisp can be imperative too. But, because the language was not constructed according to the underlying physical architecture, it's not bound by the limitations of ALGOL-like languages.

So, rather than condescending, I find this interesting: these are two dissimilar approaches to solving problems.

Your comment about baking an apple pie 'without being able to state any specific steps how to do it but instead describing the pie as some set of interrelationships of the ingredients' was also an excellent statement of the differences between these points of view.

Barnsley's perspective was that relationships may indeed be a better way to describe structures. His concern was fractals, but perhaps the analogy extends to the logical structures that comprise a program.
Of course there are external causes. Events are caused by your decisions and external causes. Very often external causes have more influence and they can also influence your future behaviour.

When I said there is no free will, I meant that you can't influence your own decisions. In fact, according to this theory, "you" is just a product of your mind. Your brain just follows the law of physics and chemistry. Decisions are made by your synapses and are the result of your past experiences, genetics, hormones, logic, emotions and surroundings. So if there would be an all-knowing being that knows the exact state of the universe and how things interact, it could calculate the future.

I don't define free will as being 100% the cause of an action. I would define it as the "freedom to do otherwise in the same circumstances".

Bear in mind that this is just a theory. But even if it's wrong, the influence we have over our life might be smaller than we tend to think.
this is an advert, wtf!
I saw a news article about suicides among 50-something men
in the US going up by 50%.

I'm curious, is this statistically significant? I'm having trouble finding information about the variance of suicide rates.
Don't forget that Minecraft was originally just a game where you could walk around and place or destroy blocks. None of the fancy stuff you're talking about was added until the game started taking off.
See also https://github.com/NodeOS

I don't see any mention of node. Is the plan to implement a whole new suite of low level libraries with different APIs?
I think the point of his critics wasn't that this is no real vulnerability but that the implied severity was blown out of proportion.
The Mad genius Paradox
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Hey Steve, 8fit cofounder here.

It's really not a matter of whether or not you have a gym membership, it's a matter of the actual exercise you do. You can have a gym membership but if you spend your time doing the wrong things you won't get the results you're after. I myself go to the gym, as well as performing bodyweight exercises. They're clearly different, and we're not suggesting otherwise. However the bodyweight exercises are often more convenient for people with busy schedules, or who travel a lot.

As for the nutritional aspect, we're not inventing anything new, and we don't have any magic formulas. We're just helping people improve their health understanding the effects of the things they eat. It's not a fashionable diet, and it's not rocket science. It's pretty much standard healthy living.
Yes.

A diploma from a prestigious university only means you can go through better gilded doors. After that, your measure is how much money you helped your employer make.

After a while, the metric becomes what you've done (in the past) to prove your worth.

If MOOCs are taken seriously, and can compete with prestigious diplomas when it comes to that first job, then you've got a game changer.

Sadly, the only way to make a business (again, pains me to say that) pay attention is if they lose money.
I'm sorry for your tough week. Not to pile on the negativity, it was an innovative product, and none of this is your fault, but it probably doesn't make sense to resell copyrighted content.

As for not being done, your CEO, Kanojia, said:

"If it’s a total straight-up loss, then it’s dead. We’re done,"

Was that a bluff?
For me, batch log and capture from tape. FCPX no longer has any tape support.
Lots of people, it turns out. Murder is a pretty irrational act to commit, so I wouldn't expect murderers to display tons of foresight in planning.
Hodos ano kato.
The sample phone screen they showed gave me the creeps. All the little stacked up sheets reminds me of a desk stacked with unopened bills. I can do without that kind of real world clutter in my UI. It helps me to focus on one thing at a time, not have a bunch of slivers beckoning around the edges of the current "window", thank you very much.
When you try to get it accredited, you'll have a better understanding of the problem.

Only when you threaten to rock the boat do the esteemed gentlemen show their mafia qualities.
Thanks for the understanding! By the way, it's not only about not accepting the lifestyle (e.g. coding at night) and thus struggling to keep up with the changes -- it's also not being profitable enough to hire enough people. If you want/need to be present on the three major mobile platforms and you can only afford a team of three, for example, it can be hard sometimes.
Good stuff! I had something similar in mind, but you already made it. Thanks!
This! While it sounds weird, moving to another city and getting a fresh start got me out of my dark period (broke up with GF after 7 years, failed startup, completely broke).
There is a lot of knowledge about this belly brain to be gained from studying the japanese arts (as in Dō).

Zazen and Aikido come to my mind, but all the Japan's traditional disciplines seems to center around the development of the Hara [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_(tanden)
I think scales of magnitude are informative. The difference between 100 and 200 lines or 10,000 and 20,000 are probably not useful, but you can get an idea of the scale of a project when you compare orders of magnitude. At the smallest scale, the recent ray caster was an example where the amount of code mattered a great deal.
It's advertisement for the maker, just like news about the new thing that Apple/Google/Microsoft/... made. But that’s usually ok.
Thank you for all of the constructive comments and different perspectives. I saw a few emails in my inbox too. Thank you.

As a single founder, it's the constant rejections that have me down. Failure to raise money to prove product market-fit [1]. Failure to come through in the clutch. Failure to convince investors. Failure to get the 'Yes' people to actually give you the cheques they said they would commit. Failure to "find a way". Failure at home. Failure at simple tasks like cooking an egg omelette for breakfast. Failure everywhere.

It feels like everything is compounding. I can't close anything to save my life. Literally. Confidence lost, swagger extinct. I try to shake off the negative thoughts and 'push through' as every successful person claims.. but somehow, someone pulls another rug out from under me. When it rains, it fucking pours. It could be worse, but it feels like i'm standing in a nimbus cloud that wont let up.

[1] - Don't need to raise to prove product market fit. But haven't pulled a salary in 8 months. Needed to keep the lights on at home. Avoided taking on contract work as that would take away from the startup, so kept pushing thru. "I'll just raise, I'll find a way.." said every startup founder.
OS Kernel in JS? As seen many times before on Hacker News (And it still blows my mind) just go whole hog:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Making an impact on 7000 orphanages
"Small number of dependencies" being the operative phrase.

Try managing a complex single page app with deep dependency graphs and each node in that graph versioning up independently. Not sure how your approach would scale there.
>>They're not my numbers, that's the actual output from the command-line Console apps...<<

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
Education is essentially a business.

You seem to think it's a broken one (so do I).

You're a savvy business man.

Change it!
That would be the right direction. From my understanding, there are devices like that now but the price points are higher up front and technical to set up. A plug and play approach with a monthly lease could work (assuming you can't actually make one for $30.) The bigger issue is, can this model scale and survive 5 years out? If it can not, it may be better to pull the plug.

This is a bigger loss to the TV stations than it is to Aereo users. How many Aereo users are going to go out and re-connect their televisions? Even if they do, the limitations can only reduce their viewing time. Friends who still have antenna televisions or were using Aereo largely did so because their wives liked to watch stupid reality TV shows. I never connected an antenna to my television. I have not had cable for three years. Broadcast TV stations could not make me a viewer if I was paid to watch. Between Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Hulu, Youtube, and Twitch why would I choose to watch broadcast? It is only a matter of short time before the mass market sees it this way as well.
In tennis, consistency is far more important than peak performance. If you want actual improvement, simply recording where the ball was in contact with them racket is far more useful than MPH.
I'm a little confused. Did Bailey find this bug, or did Ludwig Strigeus?
We're putting it on Facebook mobile ads at the moment.
More like a glob of processed cheese.
My weekend project is a script which tracks prices of used cars which I'm interested in and saves the data to a Google spreadsheet. It will also notify me via email if price for a car has dropped. I'm about half-way done.
A few years back it seemed that pyglet was dead. I am glad to see that this isn't the case.
> the experience you're trying to create (in line with the brand)

Everything wrong with design, in one line."Function follows form" at ts worst.
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We are now building a smart communication platform, where files and links are never lost. Think of a shared folder with a chat built in. https://staply.co

Feedback is welcome.
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yes right so you get to work a MC Job instead of a good one - not exactly a endorsement for MOOCs is it.

You go to Oxbridge/ivy league universities for the contacts not just the piece of paper
It is revolving credit, so if they just need money to finance AR, it is very cheap indeed (0%). They can alternate cards each month to double the amount of 0% money- provided they are just using it for AR.

If they need the money to finance operations, then their model is wrong. Never borrow against a credit card for operations, only for AR because of the crazy interest. Otherwise, you end up without sales and large debt. Ask mom and dad, grandma, you uncle, friends if the goal is not not give up equity but you need cash for a longer term investment in the company.
Forgive my ignorance of the judicial system, but why would the issue be returned to the lower courts?

My understanding is that a Supreme Court decision was about as final as something could get- Is there any paths to Aereo being able to win some other battle and potentially come back to life?

Can you appeal a Supreme Court decision?
Just finished up my first Android app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alixander....
I've created a tutorial for making a 2D version of Minecraft using Python and Pygame. Obviously the end result is a _much_ simpler game than Minecraft, but it is useful in teaching things like 2D arrays and dictionaries.

http://usingpython.com/pygame-intro/
Good point! I believe the author in this particular case was subtracting in the frequency domain, not in the time domain — subtracting spectrographs instead of waveforms. In that case, a 90° phase-shifted sine wave would indeed cancel out.
as they say "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low"
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Why would I use bower over npm with browserify? Seems like a large step back.
Have you heard of ZODB? You might find it interesting to look at—perhaps you might even find it does all you want, and more.
"Bitcoitus"
Please keep fighting, pivot into hardware and resell the antenna. If you did some software as well people would be able to make a distributed network similar to your centralized one. Revenue streams from the hardware and software could keep you viable.
Why do dynamic languages make it difficult to maintain large codebases?
I'm working on an open-source snippet-saving app (think a dumber version of Evernote), with the intention of making it easy to self-host: https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/jetcan-server . At the moment I'm in the process of refactoring how user accounts are handled, so it's not quite ready for self-hosting in a serious way.

I'm also planning on writing a CLI client and an Android app for that project, but have yet to get started on it.

I've also been working on a clojure library to provide a key-value json store abstraction over PostgreSQL (https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/bedquilt). It's mostly for fun, but I'm thinking of moving all the core logic out into a PostgreSQL plugin, so that all the "smarts" can be done on the PostgreSQL server instance, and then reduce the client library to a thin wrapper over some SQL functions.
Monads are pretty simple if you aren't pre-emptively primed with "monads are really hard."

I remember the day I sat down, worked through some examples, and grokked monads. I said, "That's it?"

That's not to say that they can't be hard to learn. I just don't think that they're _inherently_ hard to learn, and I think that they're sufficiently different enough from 'more traditional' CS concepts that said other concepts can hamper your ability to learn them. I suggest http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba... if you're still trying to figure them out.

Fun story: one time I had to suddenly explain monads to an English professor, because she overheard me say the word and said, "wait, Leibnitz?"
The movie was "Coming to America" (1988)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchwald_v._Paramount
> people quit due to feeling disillusioned, constrained, or opposed by the systems around it

I think this happens more than just in education, but I can believe that education has a healthy stake.
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I, too, was hoping for a reference in the post. Checking google news shows no recent news reports.

I did find this:

http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health...

"Before the recession, men were more likely to commit suicide than women. This gap grew once the economic crisis began: While suicide rates increased for both genders, the increase for men was four times greater than that of women."
No. The global tech authority did not copy a Latin Instagram-for-fashion company's design for their health related mobile app.
How did this make it to the HN front page? This is garbage.
Ask HN: Best practices to harden your personal-finance security posture?
Paging security people! A few weeks ago, there was some discussion here [0] about using separate banks and debit/ATM cards for on and offline use, using 2FA, and other things. Several good ideas came up, but getting at them required a deep-dive through the comments.

In this age of vast data breaches, it would be nice to get a canonical list of best practices, all in one place, for defense against fraud, identity theft, etc. Perhaps this might vary as a function of geography, and the variations could be interesting, too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847606
Building an open-source forum-as-a-service platform, so schools/companies/friends can have a cool place to speak online. I hope this will be cool and appreciated.
This is actually more relevant than one might guess. If you export about 90% of the heavy lifting into a library (that might not even be written by you) then of course you can write anything in a very small program. I would interpret that "Minecraft in 1 line of Batch" as very short note to that fact. Therefore it is a relevant criticism of the linked article.
jslinux is a virtual machine compiled with emscripten + a barebones linux distribution. It's very different from this project.
I suspect it stems more from the Google origins than anything else.

Most of Google's code base is one big repository, and everyone is working at HEAD. It's nice not having to support a matrix of dependency versions, but that really only works when you can also modify downstream dependencies with ease.

That works within Google because there's a culture of constant maintenance; but out in the real world, you can't expect OSS package maintainers to be constantly active & willing to accept patches.
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A quick warning: as the title suggests, this book isn't for everyone.
Except that JSLinx is running an operating system mostly written in C... It's just the virtual machine that is written in JavaScript. Still pretty incredible though.

This project isn't exactly a kernel written in JavaScript either though - it's a bit of Assembly and mostly C++ underneath the JavaScript. It also is awesome regardless but I think they could make the description a little clearer.
Can someone explain to me how it hurts the content owners to have more eyeballs watching their freely broadcasted, advertisement supported shows?
Just curious, do some of these devices work directly with a desktop/laptop device? Or possibly even a dongle for tablets/smartphones?

I remember seeing HKTV having these dongles which are fairly small and works pretty well with mobile devices. Maybe they can try that route.
I'd be really interested in how this turns out!
The Giant Tetris Build. Everything from Hardware to the Web. We're building an LED array that will hang on the window of TrepHub, run by a raspberry Pi. People walking by outside can just hook up to the Pi's wifi (via smartphone browser) and control the display (I.e play Tetris or space invader). Gamers I the community can develop other low res games for the display too (we're building he game framework out in python and using Flask for the web controller interface).

http://www.meetup.com/Coders-Hackers-Founders/events/1917388...

http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Makerspace-Florida-USA/event...
Egads. Slavoj Žižek is not a madman nor even remotely summons your derogatory term “pop”.

He is one of the most topical and compelling minds in the Continental Philosophy stream.

As any good Continental Philosopher, he highlights the seeming invisible connections between the hegemony of an ideological system and the unfortunate byproducts.

You likely don't agree with him because he is precisely a counterpoint to the Rationalist Noam Chomskys out there.

Note, Rationalist is not an accolade here, but rather a reference to one of the other strains of philosophy.
Presumably the end purpose of design is differentiation. Whatever Google is trying to do, Google has borrowed heavily on flat UIs other designers have been producing for some time. Rather than leading the pack, 'Material' is getting all of the stragglers to catch up. If all cars looked like Ferraris, Ferrari would change.
I'm not concerned with who's ultimately responsible for the commit. I'm concerned with being called the author on something I didn't write. These distinctions are not made or enforced by git. At the end of the day, it's how humans interpret two pieces of metadata.

The first hit on Google and Bing for "git committer vs author" brings up this SO entry:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18750808/difference-betwe...

So, I don't think I'm taking some fringe view here. For my part, I don't think I want someone else writing code and putting my name on it.
http://bootstrapcarnival.com/search?q= shows empty :)

is there a way to search for free themes?

looks awesome!
JSLinux is actually not compiled with emscripten - it's written directly in JavaScript. There are some more notes on how it works here: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
Actually I'd say pretty good as their software has been really high quality so far. That and the fact that JRuby already exists and I'm pretty sure thats the target runtime, a lot of their work is already pretty solid.
I'm working on a simple little utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020...
The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'.
I'm working on a competitor to Meetup called Caravan. We're focusing on larger, more established meetups that aren't served well by Meetup. http://launch.caravan.io/
Move to Key West.
It would be pretty sad if code completion efficiency became a reason to compromise on other areas of a language.
I'm working on a hobby project called vidyabuzz [1]. It's a search engine / instant newspaper for video games. You give it the name of a video game that's been in the news lately (or a studio, or a developer) and it gives you a bunch of article snippets in a newspaper-esque format.

It's just a toy, but I'm interested in the format for more serious applications in the future.

[1] http://vidyabuzz.com
It would have to. Node's libraries wouldn't be nearly enough to cover all the needs of applications here. Especially since it's a microkernel and things like drivers that perform raw bus I/O have to be built upon the libraries provided.
IANAL, but I believe the Supreme Court only ruled on one specific claim in the lawsuit not the lawsuit itself. There were other claims and the lawsuit is technically ongoing, but this one crucial aspect has been decided.

No, you cannot appeal a Supreme Court decision.
In russian language there are also phrase "нутром чувствовать" (literally insides / gut feeling).
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Do home internet connections have the upload speeds necessary to make HD streaming viable, though? I don't think they do.
I am working on popularizing Apache Solr search engine: http://www.solr-start.com/ . It's a couple of books, a website, a mailing list and a bunch of connected Open Source projects, all having the focus on making it easier for people to learn Solr.

The fun part is that doing this for/by myself, I can scratch any itch I want, as long as it's around the core theme. The extra interesting - and challenging - part is to ensure there is a positive-feedback and self-fulfilling prophecy across those products.
I am working on a project to help ecommerce shoppers get a super micro loan to pay for next day shipping. Think of it as Max levchin new startup"Affirm" but just for next day shipping to shipping that cost over $20+... To the top we will go!!!
I built a small site to track your hackernews karma/comment/submission count:

https://hn.notmyhostna.me/
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Can't tell you much about the service, since I haven't used it, but your translation to Russian is flawed: "Обмен файлами начинается с _общениями_" should be "... общения". my 2c :)