skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the sentence is poorly put together, but there aren't any lies. Clojure syntax is by far more simple (and thus easier to learn) than C-style languages or Python or Ruby. But the language is harder to jump into because it places particular emphasis on programming principles that are confusing to new programmers, like function purity, recursion and higher-order functions.

Keep in mind too that different Lisps have different syntax. The only thing in common between them is Polish notation, S-expressions and a macro system. A Clojure program and a Common Lisp program look and feel very different.
> See this circa 1999 article about peering and settlement on the internet

The purpose of the arrangement you're pointing to is so that transit providers (e.g. Level 3 or Cogent) could distinguish other transit providers from transit customers whose traffic was characteristically asymmetric. The reason transit providers care more about upload bandwidth than download bandwidth is that customer ISPs can easily offer web hosting services to balance their traffic load, so it would be fruitless to charge the ISPs more for not sending the transit provider more traffic they have to carry. Better to give the ISPs free transit than that.

But Verizon isn't the transit provider here, they're the ISP. By sending Verizon a lot more traffic than they receive, Level 3 is effectively offering Verizon a huge amount of free transit in the other direction. That's like free money. Verizon could trivially use it to out-compete AWS on bandwidth pricing and make a boatload of easy cash. But that wouldn't unbalance the playing field for competitors of Verizon's video services.
UnDupe puts an end to your duplicate contact nightmare. (in Nimble CRM)
The art market is already using the internet to great effect. Like you write in your article, many of the gallery sales are now online. Work can even be sold in advance of the physical exposition opening.

However, if one might be tempted to correlate internet-based business with openness and even educational inspirations: that’s not the commercial art world I know of. Because in most of these cases collectors will have had a password to the restricted part of the gallery website.

That entire $60B art market is in a continuous effort to make scarce and unreachable what is at the basis an abundant resource. Hence the passwords handed out to selected collectors. Or, for example, what’s the logic of taking an image with a digital camera, and promising to print it only 5 times? It’s an economic logic of promoting scarcity, and it works really well—contemporary art auctions have gone through the roof this year.

At the same time, as art is moving to digital artefacts, the notion of scarcity on which the art world is built is bound to blow up at some point—like you, I’m confident that the internet will help us come up with new ideas of what it is to be an artist, and what it is to produce art. Yet the gallery circuit is the last place where I’d go looking for answers…
7 months into using it my partner & I find YNAB very overcomplicated. Being freelance I don't have a steady income, and I've never managed to make it handle that well. Because the income figure isn't correct it's hard to see what I'm actually spending (if I put my 'lump income' in a category and move money between categories to have 'income' each month, that mucks up the amounts).

I have yet to get it to balance any month too. Some categories (e.g. clothing) we work on an annual budget, so overspending in these categories rolls forward; that doesn't seem to work smoothly.

My partner can't get her head around it at all, which is a bit of a bummer.

What I'd like is a much simpler system based on the old T account (envelope accounts are similar) where each category functions as a virtual account, showing what was spent, inter-category transfers and overall status.
I think you missed the point of that XKCD. If you're going to publish a heatmap of absolute numbers, then yes, it'll end up looking pretty much like a population distribution map. If you publish a heatmap of percentages, then you will probably get something quite different (assuming that the percentage isn't linearly correlated with population).
You didn't actually limit what you said to that topic. You said there should be a "right to be forgotten," and when someone wondered what it should apply to, answered "Anything that might make someone unemployable that didn't result in a conviction or other defeat in court" (emphasis mine). The fact that someone never showers falls under that heading. At no point have you said anything to suggest you were only talking about arrests, and the EU law does not limit itself that way. Did you instead mean for it to apply only to arrests and nothing else?
There is not so much difference between "parseable by humans" and "parseable by compilers". What is hard for the machine is hard for you also. For instance, if you're asked to sort a deck of 1000 randomly shuffled cards, each printed with a unique integer, you will not do better than O(N log N).

Take any LALR(1) defined programming language. Now write it in one line without indentation. How easy is it to parse (for you, human)? We rely on other clues to grok languages, like indentation. You cannot really "cheat" in parsing; if the machine requires a 600 state transition graph with a push-down stack, that translates into difficulty for you, also.

Lisp is obviously parseable by humans; there are people who easily write and maintain large, complex Lisp programs.
It feels to me like your comment (and the GP) are missing the forest for the trees. To engage in idealistic/positive change-the-world research and engineering, you need money, and lots of it. It's a "long game": to cure cancer 10 years from now, we all need to work on ads now so we have the money to spend on energy/medical/whatever research.

Example: Elon Musk. There wouldn't be a Tesla or SpaceX without the PayPal money.
This article is true for any business with paying customers.

A great way to see how you can reduce customer churn and increase customer loyalty is actually asking if your customers would recommend your business to a friend or colleague. Since word of mouth is very valuable, knowing where you rank on a scale of 0-10 can be insightful in understanding how to improve your business.

One system to manage such engagement is called Net Promoter Score (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter).

Note: I work for Promoter.io which provides a service to do this.
They can really arrested you for drinking as a minor? In here a bar can get into trouble if they sell you a drink, but your only trouble are parents if they ever find out. And I remember that 18-19 years old Americans I knew indeed used to drink (and get wasted too).
Used to dream of living in the US, moving our business there.

Not just due to this, but the more I read and learn about the US, the more that is exposed about the US, the less I now want to live there.
Just open in new tab. Even on mobile it works well because the back button just closes the tab and puts you back into the other window (on android at least, not sure about iOS)
I really love this chart as well because it seems to convey the evolution quite naturally - I will implement a version for my payment provider. Thanks for sharing!

EDIT: I downloaded the cohort data for my SaaS from Recurly and injected all this into a google spreadsheets. With maybe 10 minutes of work I had my data, and it's pretty good. Thanks again :-)
It's because the author is bad at interpreting statistics and doesn't recognize that a 4% difference when the average rate is closer to 18% is a way bigger difference than a 5 or even 6% difference when the average rate is closer to 40%.
Honestly, I'm not sure that police involvement for this stuff is a bad thing.

Schools are no longer equipped to handle violence between students, and it's questionable whether they ever were. They've lost many disciplinary tools they could use to deal with violent students, and even then it's hard to say that schools properly handled bullying or other student-on-student violence issues back in the "good old days".

Bringing in the police to handle those kinds of issues might actually be the appropriate response. Pulling out an arrest for it though seems excessive.
Simple syntax does not a simple programming language make.
We heard this excuse from Blockbuster and Hollywood Video when RedBox and Netflix ate their lunch

This comment is a complete non sequitur in an otherwise good exchange. Blockbuster and Netflix weren't in dispute over who should pay for sharing an infrastructure node shared between them. Instead it's a generic "popular Internet company good, other company bad" argument.
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For a concrete example, I was just recently converting a list-of-dicts into a dict-of-dicts. Here's an isolated snippet:

http://pastebin.com/8q46bK0v

To my eye, the list comprehension version is reasonable.
But I like the imperative style better: it uses the most basic language features and at a glance you can tell what it does.
My favourite is the dictionary comprehension version, it's the shortest but still conveys clearly what it's doing.
Serious question...what would you suggest as an alternative?
It's unclear why you're asking this here, but chip to chip communications should only be as complicated as the things that they need to communicate. For instance if there is only one value that you want to communicate, then just send the raw values without any sort of framing. If you are doing more complex on board communications, figure out some fixed sized packet of information to send. It's simple enough and unless something is expected to noise up the connections or if the clocks get desynced, then everything will get through without any error to be concerned about.

If you are finding yourself generate a complex protocol, all you need to do is figure out what needs to be communicated and how often it needs to be communicated.
As long as it doesn't need to stream in too rapidly, it makes sense to keep things simpler at the cost of a bit more overhead (in terms of the bits per chunk of data).
I know I wouldn't be employable with a googlable arrest record. No thank you.
I think you are kind of firing a promotion bullet for nothing here: you should definitely explain what NPS stands for, otherwise you're losing people.
Google: We need to talk about the right to be forgotten
Don’t tell people to use VIM (because) You’re Using It Wrong
I know a few people with felony arrests (charges dropped) who had the records expunged pretty easily. It was a simple form filed with the court, and the record was clean for later background checks. It's a hassle, sure, but it makes the rest of your life much easier.
World Cup 2014: Study reveals how teams have been perceived
Oh man, yes! One of my earliest memories from when I started coding, at 10 years old, was when I saw "X = Y + 10" in a program, and a similar thing in the next line. My first reaction was: what is that? It looks like a system of equations that the machine is supposed to solve!
I think they were born in the 80's. Which means they were kids in the 90's and early 2000's, at the very peak of the US prison population boom.

I could be wrong.
I went to a techie high school and we studied LISP in an AI class I took. My biggest memory is the load of parentheses! It was definitely an interesting language and I've often thought about looking back at it for giggles. This could be a good reference.
No, they were 18 between 1997 and 2008, so they were *born in the between 1979 and 1990, i.e., they were teenagers in the 90's or early 00's, same age as me (DOB 1983).

"The study is an analysis of national survey data from 1997 to 2008 of teenagers and young adults, ages 18"
I don't think there's a single person on this website who is ok with this.
This survey is based on interviewing people, not on arrest statistics, so if you think you were arrested, it counts as an arrest.
I'm not sure, but does this have anything to do with being common law rather than civil law?

To be more specific, it's not a matter of the law being "too strict", but rather it's too vague and have to be interpreted by a judge. So until someone actually fight a case, the interpretation could be too broad and can be used easily. In civil law, you pretty much have to iterate everything.

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about. I used to live in a country with civil law, and since moving to the US, the common law system has always fascinated me.
No HiDPI support :( Damn it.
It doesn't sound like you were actually arrested...
Couldn't agree with you more. If anything, I'm always shocked when I get something from a kickstarter, and pleased beyond imagining when it works out well/is high quality. I've certainly gotten some stinkers, and some no shows - but also been really happy with others (my CNCd iPhone Dock, for one)

Kickstarter should really emphasize "The risk of failure is high, and you stand a good chance of never receiving anything for your money"
Ask HN: Would you use a fitness app/service for couples?
Are you in a relationship and interested in staying fit as a joint effort? I'm trying to gauge interest in this idea with a mini-survey I put up on Heroku:

http://stay-fit-together.herokuapp.com/

Any and all comments much appreciated! Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
This was a joy to read. A perfect story!
I had the same bug on Nexus 5. I like the psychology behind the app and would use it, but I fear it will become boring and I will quit. Maybe gamify it a bit more.
These are massive names using Go now. This is an exciting time for Gophers.
Silent Circle Launches Global Encrypted Calling Plan
Yes, you are right. I wish the article had more ways to tackle reducing churn. I know one way is to engage your customers to see if they would actually recommend your business to friends/colleague's.

I amended my comment to better explain my position.
I'm interning at Yelp this summer on the same team as Yuxin Zhu, one of the creators. He's super passionate about making students' lives better!
Obviously companies are not crowdfunding much stuff if they can use regulation to increase profit.
Eh? The law only talks about convictions not arrests. You need to qualify for a Business or Tourism visa to be able to use the VWP. (source: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/general/inelig...)

Sounds like your friend got screwed by an over zealous bureaucrat.
Thank you for the clarification, that makes more sense. On a side-note, I think a lot of this would be solved by ending the "war on drugs".

I agree on your first point, I am indecisive on your second point (What is "mass" surveillance really?) and I don't know enough about the US to understand what you mean by a "militarized police".
Cool! the next step would be to make it part of a CoreOS image
so that you can roll out kubernetes updates the CoreOS way.

I wonder if there is an easy way to maintain a customized image of CoreOS.
Wow! I had exactly the opposite experience. Although by high school was very working class and my college very white.
I have a repro thanks to github.com/ilyakava! Looks like installing the Buffer chrome extension can expose this bug. https://github.com/artsy/scroll-frame/issues/11 Probably something weird I'm doing with pushState.
Wrong either way. Because it is so easy to parse by computers it is easy to use them to format it. Have you tried reading foreign (as in not written by anyone you know) lisp code? IME It is not hard(er) than any other language.

For example, IME delving into the codebase of hunchentoot was way easier than django's.
> for work

That's very clearly not what we're talking about here. I wouldn't be surprised if (for personal use, not work) the "bubble" is a more accurate descriptor for those who _do_ need desktop software. The only people I know who use anything on the desktop beyond their browser are software engineers, PC gamers, and people who use niche software, all with a quite-above-average level of computer-savviness.
This was a sensitive topic while I was in high school in Colorado. I don't think the school had a majority, but the largest groups were white and hispanic groups. We always had at least 1 permanent police officer heading a group of a couple of people who could be either police or security.

Nominally this was a response to incidents throughout the rest of the state such as Columbine, but in reality the purpose was to try to combat youth gangs. In this respect I think it partially worked for the circumstances.

However, this was also used to target usage of marijuana and cigarettes by students. I'm not sure how effective this was, because data about that was not commonly released by the school. Needless to say, a lot of students didn't like this, but opinion of the student body was very divided. It would be interesting to see how things have changed in Colorado high schools since marijuana was legalized; I'll have to look into that, but in most schools marijuana is still banned (like tobacco products) so things could only get worse if school policy is unchanged.
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Are you sure you were arrested? It sounds like you were not actually placed into custody, eg cuffed and in the back of a police car. You may have been detained rather than arrested, not withstanding the issuance of a ticket.
are there any "aborted" projects where backers sued and won? it seems it's up to the justice system to decide what kickstarter terms are because their own TOS are quite vague.
Everything can kill your startup
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They are indeed murder on bare feet. The article sadly didn't mention two other excellent aspects:

- They are very, very secure: you pretty much can't rip a British plug out of the wall with the cord. My US plugs, by comparison, are always coming half out and terrifying me with thoughts of sparking fires.

- All multi-way adapters are oriented the same way, so you know your stuff will fit. Contrast with a US 4 way, where one will be vertical, one horizontal, and absolutely none will let you plug in a 'wall wart' without blocking access to another free socket.
NaN does not mean "I am not a number”
Wow. Most trade jobs require at least a high school diploma; many require some additional training (not necessarily an associates degree, but often a certificate of some sort, and enrollment in those courses requires a diploma).
Receiving a citation is a non-custodial arrest.

edit just to make it clear: This is not my opinion. This is the legal definition. The study includes citations as arrests. This is why they make sure to point out that they do not include minor traffic offenses.
I fully agree. It seems a little silly that if you have a busy period at work and forget to pay attention for a few weeks, that's just a black hole (short of going through credit card statements and trying to remember every cash purchase). This happens all the time with Mint, and I can just go back and categorize all the purchases that need doing so, with the only loss being that the cash purchases I forgot about show up as non-specific cash spending (through the initial ATM withdrawal).
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Mysterious tribe in Amazon Rainforest makes first contact with outside world
I think the notion that we can all copy the 'template' of what Nathan does isn't really possible. He writes really, really well. I don't know if I could pull in an audience or sell books with what I would consider mediocre writing skills. I'm a programmer after all. Maybe someone like myself should go for it, if that's where there passion's at, then seek out a really great editor.
I'd always go with PDO, as its parameter binding is much more flexible/intuitive than mysqli's
"Sounds bad, but [...] It almost certainly points to police officers arresting children en masse in order to discover the real perpetrator"

... seems to me like a horrible counterproductive thing.
If I understand your first problem correctly, you could have setup an RPC system so you only write your apis once. Use the same 'endpoint' of your api as the data call in your socket connection, and you only end up writing your api once.
At least regarding the "loaded gun" incident - there's a much better choice besides "arrest him" and "ignore it". How about a fine?

Arrests should be limited to just the people who are a flight or safety risk.
I liked the terminology. Don't know which one of us is more representative of the target demographic, though.

It's not (necessarily) just marketing fluff. A lot of people view budgeting as "here's what I can't spend money on". It can be easier to stick to a plan when viewed through the lens of getting the maximal enjoyment for the money. There's a lot of people out there who "don't know where it's all going"; the idea is that you consciously decide if you'll be happier spending $100/month on, say, Starbucks or a Beaglebone. Once you know where it's all going, you can decide if you want to spend it on things that might be more enjoyable.
Completely agreed. I definitely liked your approach. Making infinite scroll work flawlessly will be a combination of a series of "patches".

Great work.
Exacerbated, not exasperated. :) You were close though, they only have a Levenshtein distance of 4.
My favorite way is to measure my customer's engagement then work at increasing it.
I think that practitioners of corporate-speak are surrounded by so many other people who corporate-speak that they don't realize how idiotic it sounds to everyone else. To them, they're normal words that actually mean real things – because they are normal words that actually mean real things.

I think the real issue it people who use them as buzzwords. They say 'synergize our corporate efficiencies to maximize our value proposition…' in the same way that someone else might say 'make things better': it conveys meaning, but only in the most vague and useless of terms instead of going into specifics.
And when I delivered pizza, my manager wasn't allowed to make me work unpaid overtime. But this is America, and something being "not allowed" doesn't mean it isn't happening all the time. The people affected by this most generally cannot afford legal action to defend themselves against this. Or worse, they're unaware that it's illegal to do this.
True. If you are truly innocent of the crime, you should have a good case to get the arrest record expunged (e.g. arrested for a case of mistaken identity and the charges are dropped). If there is enough evidence that you can't file a motion to dismiss, and the case goes to trial, then I suppose you have some explaining to do. The employer might be justified in denying employment if you engage in behavior that results in arrest (e.g. you are a known gang member arrested in a sweep, and later released or you were caught joyriding and the owner decides not to press charges). In this case, the arrest is not the reason for denying employment, your behavior is.
Those are overblown. Modern mega-scale logistics are stunningly efficient. Food shipped by freight-ship and truck are supposedly more efficient with less polution than a local farmer driving hir* produce to market in a car.

* I hate that term. So clumsy-sounding.
I assume you're wondering the same thing I am, are they taking into account the Co2 created at the source?

Either way, they're ahead of the game, but I'd just like to know how they got their Co2 measurements.
No, it doesn't. It says any currency, along with all kinds of things that aren't currency but which can more-or-less readily be converted into currency, including travelers' cheques and negotiable instruments, both of which are probably less liquid than bitcoins. Indeed, a bitcoin is a "negotiable instrument".

I quote:

(5) the term “monetary instruments” means

(i) coin or currency of the United States or of any other country, travelers’ checks, personal checks, bank checks, and money orders, or

(ii) investment securities or negotiable instruments, in bearer form or otherwise in such form that title thereto passes upon delivery;
Dipping my toes in the Servo waters