skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dylan is also, unfortunately, an example of "worse is better" in action. The extant Dylan implementations were incredibly ambitious. CMU's d2c built on the experience with CMUCL. Harlequin Dylan (AKA OpenDylan) was "Dylan all the way down" with a sophisticated native code compiler and an IDE written in Dylan. Multithreading, generational GC, etc.

And what filled the dynamic language niche? Interpreted languages like Ruby and Python that have yet to achieve 1970's levels of implementation sophistication. But simplicity made them agile and portable and allowed resources to be spent on libraries.
Generating efficient prices through a deep market actually would make it more useful as a currency. (FOREX markets are good examples)
Of Two Minds
Don't get sick in July: do new doctors actually kill statistically more people?
> a more profitable approach might be to immediately start creating whatever you really care about, and let the question of what company creates your W-2 take care of itself.

See, there's a fallacy in this way of thinking that many miss:

Creating something doesn't pay the bills. Getting a successful idea off the ground takes a lot of time (and connections). Hopefully everybody here does have a job, but if you don't, then I'm sorry, but I have to say this to you, please don't spend all your time working on your billion dollar app idea -- go get a real job. And then once you do have a paying job, if you really want to spend your remaining free time working on an idea, understand that will suck and be hard.

> I'd much rather work for the NEXT Google than the current one.

I agree with this.

I'm not saying you shouldn't work on your own ideas -- I certainly do -- I'm just saying you sound so idealistic -- do you have any idea the real world's a whole lot crueler.

BTW: Just got rejected from a big tech company after 2-3 months of interviewing. OP I know your pain.
1. Stupid, poor, minority are your words. It's funny how you can use terms with the exact same definition, but get scared when reality strikes.

2. There's nothing inherently wrong with being a Marxist (despite an obvious misunderstanding of economics).

3. From 1 and 2, it is only your politically correct / conversationally damaging standoffishness that creates your perception of "heated". This explains a lot really. You're more worried about being inoffensive than right, which is exactly why you've chosen the path you've chosen. Ignoring facts and complaining about nonexistent "strong and heated" words. This isn't a good way to learn anything.
Objectively?

I'd say probably. Maybe even likely, eventually.

If we built one how would we know for sure, though?

I'm not always entirely sure of that with some people.
Not really, the goal is to have lots of emails responding to the scammers, so they don't know who to pay attention to, so that's hard to have a manual process for that (and there's already 419eaters).
>Traders looking to do arbitrage probably already have their own bots and scripts to do that.

I doubt this actually happens, at least in any significant scale, in real life. Algorithmic traders already make enough money in less dangerous environments than Bitcoin.
Yeah, same thing happened in my league. I was auto-drafting and apparently didn't do much to me but we had a vote and it was 7/12 for a re-draft. I'm surprised how many people this effected. You think after all this time they would have it down by now.
> But then I saw Swift. Built-in support for an Option type, so one can avoid null pointer exceptions. At the same time, this languages manages to recognize the extreme usefulness of algebraic data types, without using them in their full generality. Like, why bother with a generic feature when we can settle for an ad-hoc one?

Swift has the syntax to define arbitrary algebraic datatypes, even if it doesn't yet work in the beta versions of the compiler.
He has gotten better at endings. Both Anathem and Reamde did wrap up (though they also leave open the option for sequels or prequels).
dont be a sourpuss; it's bad nettiquette
It would cost Google negligible money to host this data and the only people who would be upset would be the rent-seeking jerks responsible for the current PACER debacle.

And EDGAR after that.
I pointed out 6 hours after you did that his referenced article was dated 2 years after the article that he said copied it. You pre-stole my comment!
Korean Bitcoin Exchange Korbit Raises $3M Series A
Oddly, both VR essays utterly fail to load or render w/o JS active.
cme for the snds sty for the gifs
Choking the Oceans with Plastic
Could it then be the case that many of the them aren't really Nigerian? Has an anti-brand been created that others use to their advantage?
> If you're, like I am, tired of having to choose between books written decades ago and books written by those with at least a slightly ulterior motive

I find that most of my favorite books were written decades ago. New stuff is too boring to be worth books half the time.

That said, I buy books regularly and completely agree with the net advice. Support authors and make it a valuable career to work hard, build good knowledge, and share it.

Wikipedia can only get you so far.
IRIS is the consortium that runs most of the networks in the US. A decent start (though mostly qualitative) is PASSCAL's instrumentation page: http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/content/instrumentation

Basically, nothing is really a hard limit. Seismologists push the data to its limits, so depending on the purpose you _really_ do need a broadband station. For other purposes, though, you could definitely get away with off-the-shelf accelerometers. We'll take whatever we can get. The more precision the better, but the more sensors you have, the less the precision matters.

As far as whether or not you really need 20 bits of resolution over the full frequency spectrum, you certainly don't for every application. For some applications, though, you need it over most of the frequency spectrum. For others (e.g. strong ground motion) you don't at all. (For a quick overview, see here: http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/content/instrumentation/sensors In most cases, the high frequency component isn't the problem on the sensor side, it's maintaining accuracy on the low-frequency component. High frequency sampling generates more data and results in more power consumption, though, so there's a different set of challenges there.)

The power limits depend on where the station is installed. Typically, they're solar powered with lead-acid batteries (or maybe something else these days) to store energy. Solar panels are expensive and fragile. The less power it needs, the easier it is to reliably deploy.

Overall, if the data is available, someone will push it to its limits. You have to make compromises, and which ones to make depends on exactly what you're trying to do. A ton of cheap, easily deployable instruments changes things. There's a lot of talk about things like this, but it has been hard to do in practice so far.

Take anything I say with a grain of salt, though. I'm an exploration seismologist who crosses paths with earthquake seismologists. I don't really know what I'm talking about.

At any rate, this is all largely a non-answer. I think a lot of this is more within-reach than I realize.
Well, one can certainly say that Marxism and feudalism both produced less happiness and self-fulfillment for the population. I'm not sure they did better on solidarity, either. Sustainability? Feudalism could be argued to have done better there, but not Marxism.

My main point, though, is this: What is your better alternative? Everybody's got criticisms of capitalism (me included), but as a broad organizing pattern for society, what is your alternative? How has that alternative actually worked when it's been tried? Is there real-world experience, or just theory?
your comment is a glitch cause im sure you didn't mean to say that, maybe hn needs to invest in some ECC ram to guard against cosmic rays or something
If you want to gauge a language look at one thing and one thing only. Who are these people using it and what are they using it for? The answer to that question is more important than anything else on the list after that. Amen.
> I'd give much to know what went so deeply wrong in our industry that we keep making such basic mistakes.

I don't think we can all agree on what counts as progress. Some saw Exceptions as the advance in error handling we need while Go reverts back to error codes. People still think Go is superior for different reasons. I think both suck and prefer conditions and restarts as in Common Lisp.

It is rather difficult to build a programming language from a set of axioms we can all agree on.
Recap only helps here if everyone accesses/pays for all of the files that are about to be deleted, and doing so would surely cost millions or billions.
Amazon snaps up live video startup Twitch for $970M
sry for your cat
This is brilliant! Windows users are seriously in need of an authoritative source for information like that. Especially since the URL you mentioned looks just like a phishing site that pretends to be Microsoft and distributes spyware.

Search for any common Windows service or .dll filename, and you'll get dozens of forum threads where people who have no idea what they're talking about try to figure out whether it's a normal part of the OS or the worst virus ever. These are the same people who open Task Manager every day and blindly kill everything that they don't recognize. (Doing so does tend to make Windows run faster, which reinforces the impression that svchost.exe was indeed a virus.)
I worked at tech startups and small companies since 1998 until I joined Google this year.

Work is what you make of it.

Interview process: I interviewed at equally big companies like Comcast too. Google's interview process was just as slow as other big companies. Seems to be normal when you get to that size.

Management and structure: Your experience working there, like anywhere including a startup, will greatly depend on who your manager is. My manager is great and actively encourages me to step up my game.

Work/life balance: Google gives you a lot room to do the work that you're excited to do but that comes at a price: Self-regulation. If you're not good at it you WILL burn yourself out. But that's not any different than my last startup. I've seen it in startups too.

Personally, having a great time, learning a lot very fast, and happy. Of course, your millage may vary.
Something I never quite understood about languages was why they are restricted to one or another domain. For example the author writes:

Algebraic types? Dependent types? You'll never see them. They're too ... research-y

Why can't those features be baked into C++ or Java?
Confinicky – A ruby CLI to manage your shell environment
When you add founders, each founder gets a link to a separate form to fill out. The question is there. You each get to answer it instead of one.
> Windows is really just a legacy OS now

As much as I dislike Windows, there is a whole world of "enterprise" software running on Windows that isn't going away. SQL Server and Active Directory come to mind as Microsoft products being heavily and actively invested in by the enterprise.

If you're in the Ruby/Python/Go/Docker/whatever echo chamber it's easy to miss the other echo chambers out there. There are tons of companies out there still making a decent living from developing and maintaining software in curiously tenacious tech like Delphi, FileMaker and MUMPS.
If I was working in a language that used isomorphic json-like, I think I'd expect it to have call signatures more like smalltalk (object verb subject) than lisp (verb object), so calling '-' or '*' would seem strange to me.

But I don't know anything about this other project of yours other than what you've said here.
Very neat. For more on this check out the wikipedia article on Morton order curved (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_(curve))
That's awful! It certainly does seem like the Gentrification of the desert as I don't see how any of the hippies I know could afford to go - it's a bit outside my range as well. Where I live right now that's more than a month's rent.

I can't imagine a hippie building a house just to be comfortable for an event considering there are quite a few that have lived for years in little more than outhouses on wheels.
Yes. USA institutions are happy to pay for commercially licensed software, but refuse to pay non-tenured-profs to write open source software, AMD refuse to assert scientific ethics and send their license dollars to open source projects.
Unlike the existing coordinate systems I could find described on the web, a z-quad doesn’t represent a point but a square with an area

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
Well for a start, by definition we don't have Capitalism, so any article referring to 'current day Capitalism' has missed what Capitalism in its true essence is about.
The simple act of free trade, property rights and self-ownership is what Capitalism is. What people refer to now as Capitalism, is in fact Corporatism, which of course has its own set of deeply serious problems.

The trouble with everyone bashing 'Capitalism' now is that people draw a false parallel between 'Capitalism' and 'Corporatism' and run a mile in the opposite direction and adopt quite predictable Marxist views.

If we're going to get into Marxism, this was a man who never had a real job... he mooched off of his factory owning friends (so a complete hypocrite) and took advantage of a maid working in his families service and brought about a child of whom he never cared for. He isn't a good role model, and couldn't even live by his own views.
These are honest questions:

1) Why should the public fund a company that could not get to profitability before its IPO?

2) Why, in public markets, a business with $1B in revenue and $10M in net loss has a higher valuation than a business with $30M in revenue and $10M in net income?
Though I'm primarily left wingist, I do appreciate what the "other side" has to say. What right wing sites would you recommend? (your list is mostly left wing :P)
Many people live without sex (or even masturbation), including for religious reasons, and have throughout history. The idea that sex is some sort of carnal "need" like hunger feels like a very modern one. I find it odd that people tend not to question it.
Update channels are very hard to secure and is a huge opportunity to take ownership of the software (and from it, the machine).

For an example, check out the Defcon 22 talk Hack All the Things[1], page ~61. NTV200-100NAS owned through unsigned updates....

[1] http://download.gtvhacker.com/file/generic/GTVHacker-DEFCON2...
You are just assuming things here. I don't know the parental control features of Windows. And I don't know when this will be enabled. But I don't see a reason why this should be always enabled as soon as parental features are used. In the end Mozilla is implementing a Microsoft proposal here. I would assume that the parental controls have a setting to enable it. So it kinda seems to me that you are building a strawman to attack.

If you want to block specific websites or specific content then you obviously need to use a different tool as well.
It's interesting you didn't mention Square, I think a sign of how much Square has fallen. Two years ago payment and Square were often mentioned in the same breath around here.
Search for the title of the article on Google News then click through.
Thank you for your advice. I do agree that an overdose of global info would saturate and eventually turn one off from reading the news at all.

Say if I was to read up on the Middle East, what books/articles would you recommend?

Thank you
Well, you can add ADT's to C/C++ with a macro system: https://github.com/eudoxia0/cmacro/blob/master/t/good-macros...
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it's not polite to abuse mod privileges on people who disagree with you. it is also not too much a leap of the imagination to expect a mod of a popular forum to understand the inns and outs of netiquette.
"I asked WolframAlpha for per employee, per year revenue and profit comparisons and got this:"

What? You did division of some trivially-obtainable numbers. Why do I care that you did this in Wolfram Alpha, and why on God's green and spinning earth did you need to put the answers in two PNG screengrabs, rather than just typing the answer out into a single sentence?
I'm the Bruce that he mentioned in the post.

For better or worse, I've been pushing Dylan forward heavily over the last few years and am effectively the primary maintainer.

Over the last couple of years, we've made a lot of progress. We've completely revived the documentation from 1990s era FrameMaker files and have it published via a pretty modern system. We've converted from SVN to Git and moved to GitHub. We've done 4 actual releases. We've improved our platform portability. We've provided some basic debugging integration with LLDB. We've fixed some long standing issues in the compiler and tool chain. We've improved the GC integration on all platforms.

But there's a lot to do. We need to fix our Unicode support. We need to improve the type system in at least minor ways if not major ways. We need to improve how parse failures are handled as the errors are not always friendly. We need more libraries. Some of this is really easy, some isn't. But for pretty much everything, there are bite-sized pieces of work that could be done in a couple of hours/week that would lead to significant gains.

I've wanted to just flat out use Dylan for something and have built some small prototypes with it and while they've worked out well enough, the actual projects themselves didn't go anywhere (unrelated to the use of Dylan).

I think this blog post was triggered by a comment that I'd made publicly yesterday that I'm feeling rather discouraged at this point. There was also a private email that I sent to 19 people who have been involved with Dylan recently, but the author of this post didn't get that email.

I view Dylan, not as a language from the past, but as a stepping ladder towards building a better language for the future. We don't have to get bogged down in a lot of the minutiae involved in creating a new language as a lot of the work has been done. We get to focus on things at a different level and those things are just as important. People bring up Goo often when Dylan comes up. Goo is interesting, but the implementation is nothing close to being industrial enough to survive an encounter with the real world.

I came to Dylan because I saw the mess that Scala and other languages were. I didn't like where they were going and following some people on Twitter like https://twitter.com/milessabin and others seems to show that I'm not alone.

And that's why I'll probably keep at it with Dylan. I want a better future and I'm going to keep trying to build it.
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I understand that both NYC and San Francisco have rent control (either fixed rents or a maximum annual % increase), at least for some portion of the housing stock.

It seems like rent control creates consumer surplus for renters, at the expense of landlords. The use of AirBnB transfers some of this consumer surplus from the original renter to the temporary guest.

So, the combination of rent control and AirBnB-style short term rentals takes money from landlords (by restricting their return on capital to below the market level) and shares it between tenants (who become middlemen) and guests.

In cities without rent control, does AirBnB thrive to the same extent?
Yup. This is done on mining vehicles already for (liquid) fuel security... a big issue in 3rd world countries. It's pretty easy tech.
If they had any monopolies, as interpreted by the us government, that could be an issue.
I think the worry would be that it might make your item more of a target than a random item. In practice, I doubt that would be true, as it would be more lucrative to the thief to sell your item than to return it for whatever reward you're offering. Also, the thief will probably not relish the prospect of meeting face to face with the victim as they might be recognized.
That's very generous brother. Good karma for real life.
Amazon buying Twitch makes all the sense in the world
Well, you certainly generated a lot of debate. I sort of hate to be a pedantic, but I think a lot of the trouble comes from a misuse of terms. Capitalism is not the same as free market, and free market is not the same as laissez faire. Capitalism means that individuals can own the capital (land, factories, money) and can get a return from that capital. We allow this because the profit motive (greed) creates a pretty good (though certainly not perfect) allocation of resources. It does, however, lend itself to rent seeking behavior, which is pretty clearly not ideal for the economy. Anyway, my point is, when talking about the short comings of capitalism, it is important not to conflate the term with free market economics. Good capitalists will actually be anti-free market as monopolies mean they can make more money (ultimate in rent-seeking). Our system is not simply capitalist nor is it simply free market. It is far more complicated than that.
I am always uneasy when i see a site wanting any of my info to sign up and they don't have a privacy policy anywhere. I know you just built this thing, and wanted to share it - but you want my email address and a password, you need to tell me what you will or will not do with this information. "No spam." doesn't count as a privacy policy. For the record, I really would love to try this service out.
Fair enough, but it goes back to at least the 90s from what I can remember. Most likely, it's even older.
Not exactly what you meant: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/facebook-mobile-user-count/
Stampylonghead!
Appreciate the insights.

> Yes, if there's demand. I take it there might be. :-)

Customers of softcover.io may be more comfortable spending $150 on additional bundles if there was a well-defined baseline for screencast quality. The pitch to potential authors and customers is to emulate the sales/quality success of the Rails tutorial, so it's in the interest of all parties (platform, customers, authors) to see that baseline met or exceeded.

Edit: will the "powered by softcover" banner/footer be required for authors publishing on their own domain? If so, it would help all authors if the link was directed to a list of domains "powered by softcover", rather than a pitch for softcover itself.
I wonder if existing mipmap algorithms and hardware could be used for this kind of representation?
what is the charting library that is used for time-series data?.
The fact that you're referring to 'capitalism' in context of the present day, indicates to me that you have misunderstood Capitalism, with all due respect.

There is no 'damning and well-supported' case against Capitalism, if there is then I'm yet to find it (and believe me I've been looking). There is however a damning well-supported case against what many wrongly refer to as Capitalism i.e Corporatism.

There is absolutely no 'mysticism' to the market, it's very quantifiable. Theory of subjective value, marginal utility, subjectivism, individualism etc. The likes of Menger, Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, Spooner and co have written hundreds of thousands of pages detailing every last aspect of human/value interaction. But the core tenets are pretty simple. Certainly no mysticism or ambiguity.
As someone also invested in Common Lisp, it.... hit really close to home.
Java has a fixed assembly-language level syntax. Look to Scala or F#