skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bob owns a shop. Cash takings are put in a safe each night and taken to the bank at the end of the week.

Fatimah is an observant Muslim and thus has restricted choice of bank accounts. Her business is also a cash business but she keeps most of the cash in a safe because getting to a branch of a bank that offers an account that is compatible with her faith is a long drive. Thus she tends to have sizable amounts of cash when she actually goes to the bank.

Chris has been saving to buy a car. Chris has a problem controlling his spending with credit and debit cards, so he hands cash to his father who stuffs it in an envelope under a matress. While it's not particularly rational it works for Chris who now has $7,500 to buy a vehicle.

There's a bit of inconsistancy going on: "all criminals use cash, thus everyone who uses cash is a criminal". That's the kind of thinking that children are taught to be careful of and it's a bit scary to see it written into law.
> but having near radio silence for three years

Coincided with their acquisition by match.com. Even though they said it didn't have anything to do with that (just like removing their critique about sites like match.com was voluntary).

Well, I hope they get back to writing those posts.
>> I looked at a16z portfolio [1] and could not find any "real" liquidity event, meaning IPO or big acquisition.

Here are the exits for a16z.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz#Exits. Most of them were high profile exits.
The usual reference of Common Lisp is the Common Lisp Hyperspec. Online and for download.
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/

Several books for learning Common Lisp are online or for download:

* Peter Seibel, Practical Common Lisp, http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

* Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

* On Lisp http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

It's just that these books are 'old'. Common Lisp is 30 now. But since the core language does not change much, the old books are still fine. They may smell a bit.
Bank deposits and withdrawals of over $10,000 (?) trigger additional paperwork, FBI or IRS reports, etc.
I had no slowdowns while zooming on both my seven-ish-year-old Toughbook CF-30 and my three or four-year-old desktop machine.

Chromium 38 on Linux on both.
The spookiest thing is not the data or the experiments, but the off the cuff conclusions.

For example:
> As a group, for instance, Latino men rated Latinas as 13 percent more attractive than the average for the site, while they rated African-American women 25 percent less attractive.

That is an insane generalization going on.

What metric are we using to determine this? Is it possible that people who tend to participate in the rating of the looks of potential mates are more inclined to align with race? Not purely Latino men. Which is an enormous initial generalization to be making at the outset.

> Witness the actions of 35-year-old heterosexual men on OkCupid. These men typically search for women between the ages of 24 and 40, Mr. Rudder reports, yet in practice they rarely contact anyone over 29.

Again on this one, was age the only possible metric that caused the under 30 to be contacted more by 35 year old men? There isn't anything else that might be different about an under 30 profile that causes more communication to occur?

This is the actual scary stuff to be publicly releasing as real science. Just as the general public is ill informed about the experiments going on, they are also not aware of what metrics are used to determine these results. In my experience, many of these metrics are not as concrete as the appear and full of pushing the data to fit a narrative etc.

Combine that with the fact that most of this data is proprietary and private with no way to be peer reviewed. Dangerous stuff.
Analyzing the FBI’s Explanation of How They Located Silk Road
A Pretty-Printer That Says What It Means
It is hard to check if you don't have a map to check against, but in the waters I used to sail in Norway, all lighthouses seems to be there, but no rocks or areas with shallow water are marked, which makes the map useless for navigation there. This may come, but before it is there, it's not safe to navigate using these maps.

I also dislike that the line extending from the lighthouse sectors are not drawn, as that is very useful when navigating at night. They do have the intervals of the light houses, which is good. They also have a download function, which is important at sea, since you cannot expect to be online at all times at sea, but I did not get it to work. Since I've always used paper maps on sea, I can't tell if they have the right download formats if it should work.

All in all it is a nice testbed for testing out concepts, but still not ready for prime time. A sea map has much more stringent requirements for accuracy than street maps, and this still below the bar.
This is a surprisingly balanced and non-flamey article covering some of the background of the hubbub.

EDIT:

No, really, this is a decent read--it doesn't really take sides and links out to sources of more information and identifies some of the key players in the narrative. Pretty good journalism.

Mods, don't flag this just because "gamergate".
Disable "Enable zero-copy rasterizer" in chrome and give it another try. Its likely hitting the integrated graphics and not discrete or CPU, leading to the less than awesome FPS
I feel like the original Slashdot link has a lot more context for someone who doesn't follow the Minecraft scene closely, even if the new link has more content.
As long as they can figure out to stay on top new social properties whether is snapchat / instagram / whatsapp / something new, I think they will do fine. Of course not the same hockey stick growth.
I was reading an piece on Buzzfeed growth http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/buzzfeed-secret-growth-... . Seems like they gonna hire people just for that.
There's an in-between step, the "AST" (Abstract Syntax Tree), which is a better place to do this stuff than in the actual byte code. You still have context and a lot more useful information at that point, and can re-write the AST to use workarounds, etc.

That's the approach I took with https://github.com/danthedeckie/simpleeval .
Commons sense has been brainwashed out of people by popular culture and marketing. You know "I'm not only the hair club for men's President, I'm also a customer" or a car company CEO driving their own cars (no matter what those cars are and no matter what their income is).

Obviously there is a difference I mean the exec's at McDonalds are most likely not eating McDonalds all the time or perhaps not even part of the time (no citations obviously, just common sense).

Look, people weren't even able to accept that Potus would not send their kids to DC public schools. Everybody is equal and all of that.

It's not surprising that people feel this way. It's actually more surprising how simple minded some people are to believe that there isn't a difference and buying into some idea that all people are equal.
On Lisp by pg is available for free online.

http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf
OKTrends went dormant when OKCupid was sold to the company that operates match.com. I don't know what Rudder's involvement with OKCupid was after that, but he was no longer one of the owners. He might have still worked there, but kept his blog silent under pressure from management.
That is a very good question which I don't think they've ever really answered. The domain seems to be registered to Curse, who formerly owned Bukkit and presumably still provide hosting for it. They certainly don't own the copright on most of the code, and probably have no more right to use much of it than anyone else. Stuff like trademarks and the Github project? Who knows.

Plus Mojang keep contradicting themselves about the relationship between Bukkit and them.
The reason they aren't more common is because many people tried, but without high precision parts and extensive dynamic analysis it is very difficult to make them work reliably. Have a look at the Deltic, it was very powerful for its size and weight, but was a maintenance nightmare; in both of its major applications, high speed naval patrol boats and high speed trains. The major breakthrough with the dynamics on the Deltic was the one contra rotating crank.
No...I'd rather not watch something fuzzy. If you think it looks OK, then you may as well download proper SD rips. They'll look better with less artifacting.
The a16z website shows the current portfolio (most recent, un-exited investment) and does not display their entire investment history. If you check out their Crunchbase profile[1], they have already had some big exits with Groupon, Zynga, Skype and Instagram, which is quite impressive since they only started investing 3 years ago. I'm sure there have been some other medium/large M&A liquidity events as well but it usually takes 3-5 years to figure out if your VC portfolio is any good and 7+ years to realize any returns. LPs know this and funds usually have a 10 year life cycle, sometimes with options to extend it a year or two [2].

[1]http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/andreessen-horowitz/i...
[2]http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...
actually even the current portfolio is impressive, only few of them ipoing would make a16z cherish. In addition, they have bold investments such as cyagenmod...
They're a horrible balance, a proper SD rip will look better than a Yify encode
Yeah but keep in mind that as soon as you install or update anything on your machine your signature changes. And I would be surprised if there was less than hundreds of thousands collisions on Android or iOS browsers.

In any way this is a flaw in the current versions of the browsers, but by no mean a structural flaw that justifies giving up randomized IPv6.
The whole point of me posting this on HackerNews was 'The Guy on webstore is lying'.

Which part do you not understand when I say I NEVER used any keylogger. This is the only reason I didnt comment on any of your comments. Please edit or remove them.
Startup down.
Personally, I would go with Python.

* The language itself has a pretty good security track record
* The more popular application frameworks (Django, Flask, et al.) seem to be doing pretty well
* Process isolation techniques are well-known
Let me throw this in as an additional reading - http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html - it goes over points 1 - 4 slowly, while building intuition about what's so special about this and code=data equivalence using nonlisper-friendly examples.
thats not true. Driver sees the user details, and the ratings, before accepting the ride offer. The driver has an option to not take the ride offer.

I too was of the same thought that Uber drivers don't discriminate. But I have had a few too many instances where Uber shows more than one vehicle available nearby, when I confirm booking, after some time, no driver accepts. Why would it be so? Could it be because of my non-caucasian/american name?

After this happened, I just removed my photo, and now I'm thinking of having a generic american first/last name.

Just because Uber says it doesn't happen, doesnt mean that its not happening. Either Uber is using wrong metrics/data to identify such occurrences, or is flat-out lying to everyone saying that "the drivers cannot discriminate".
> and is there a reason you don't like "Music/Artist/Album/# - Song.mp3"?

There are tons of reasons I don't like that format. It's extremely limiting and it only applies to a few genres of music. It tries to fit all music into a rigid hierarchy of bands, albums, and tracks, a hierarchy which applied to a reasonable amount of popular music from the '70s to the '00s, and it makes me wonder if the designers of music players ever listen to anything else.

Suppose the song is a collaboration. Which artist directory does it go in?

Suppose the song is a promo track that you downloaded from a band's website or from Bandcamp. What's the album? What's the track number? What happens when the track is eventually released on an album?

Suppose the "song" is the third movement of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 (BWV 1007) as performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Who's the artist? What's the album? (If you're going to say "the album that Yo-Yo Ma's recording was released on", you'll have to be more specific.)

Now can you give answers that put things in the same organizational scheme when it's the second chorale of Wachet Auf (BWV 140) as performed by the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, directed by John Eliot Gardiner?

Suppose the song is Monstrous Turtles, by Zircon, a remix of Koji Kondo's "Super Mario World" music, released as OCRemix #1558. Is "OCRemix" an album under "Zircon"? Is it track number 1558? What about the fact that most OCRemixes are not by Zircon? Does it go in the same place if you download it from Zircon's web site instead of OCRemix?
I am sorry buddy, wrong 'Guess'.
>The issue is that the Common Lisp Community is not just sending signals that most of the potential market ignores, it's that it is sending signals that turn the potential market off.

Absolutely agree. The Lisp community could attract hundreds of new people overnight simply by learning a little CSS.

The one thing every other "hip and cool" language community has is that it has learnt that presentation matters. The people who use Python, Ruby and Node have all learnt this, but it seems most Common Lispers are perfectly happy with plain-old HTML pages that look like they were made in 1996.
> If they can build a completely vertically integrated retail platform from procurement to payment to delivery...

Amazon has already set this up for books with their Kindle Direct Publishing platform[0]. Writers directly publish on Amazon (cutting out publishers) and their books are electronically delivered to customers' Kindles -> everything stays on Amazon.

[0] https://kdp.amazon.com/
These are awesome. Love watching these demos live.
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When you publicly disclose the results, without any way for the data to be peer reviewed? Absolutely.
Common Lisp has all those tools, what it does lack is a well-designed website that says "Here's how you start".

The closest thing to that is probably the common-lisp.net website, and that's just an unfinished barebones Bootstrap example.

I've been meaning to design a better one, but that's going to take some time.
Why is it "dangerous"?
That's an old article that only discusses intrinsic language features, and doesn't even try to sell people on Common Lisp's ecosystem. I imagine most people who explicitly choose Clojure over Common Lisp do so because of concerns over CL's ecosystem.
We are already using SWIFT for much of our messages from/to banks, but it comes with a high cost and a lot more complexity than BankAPI, as messages are not sent directly from A to B, but from A to SWIFT, and then B must check their SWIFT "inbox" to receive the message from A.

With BankAPI, the response from the request comes directly from the beneficiary bank, meaning you know in real-time the message has been delivered. Compared with SWIFT, you only know SWIFT has received the message in real-time.

If the beneficiary bank can't be contacted for what ever reason, the sending bank (FromBank) simply keeps on trying until the beneficiary bank (ToBank) are back online again.
The problem with DDoS is a valid concern, but given the banks Internet banking services are also accessed by the banks users via the Internet, they are already dependent on the Internet.

If you don't need real-time messaging and if cost nor complexity is a concern, then you probably won't find BankAPI interesting.
Hi Guys. I'm with Team Linkwok. We regret the issue that you guys faced. It was because of our MongoDB service provider. Our oplog instance was offline. We have subsequently added a fix for this. The internal server error should not appear anymore. Thanks for your patience. As for the feedback you'll have given us, many thanks, we shall take your points into consideration.
In practice I tend to think of Scheme as quasi-standardized, in the sense that there is a standard core, but it's difficult to stay within it. Whereas with standards like C99, Fortran 90, or ANSI CL, it's quite common for people to write nontrivial standards-conforming programs that you can expect to run unmodified across implementations. Culturally the Common Lisp community also seems more interested in maintaining portability even when leaving the confines of the official standard, through the heavy use of compatibility layers like Bordeaux-Threads. The Scheme approach seems to be to just target a specific implementation, and share functionality across them on a case-by-case basis by porting libraries (which is sometimes trivial, and sometimes more involved). Hence CL has Quicklisp, while Scheme has a package repository per system.
> Python is pretty lispy!

Check this out https://github.com/hylang/hy
Common Lisp, the standard does not change, but each programmer can radically change the language in a day. This power is simply not for everyone and not everyone needs it.

There is nothing dismissive about it. It's not that many people need a language, where working on one of several meta-levels is the norm and not the exception.
Many of you with the app running might face a reload as the page hot-code reloads so that you have the latest version of the App.
They're not locked per se, but the carrier often doesn't push more than one Android version update to the phone. Which sucks.
HipChat released a new homepage
No mention of torrents or popcorntime?
Munich Library Now Offers Free Ubuntu 12.04 CDs for People with Windows Systems
In addition to what ams6110 said about scavenging, the article talks about how the three crankshafts are phase-offset such that the exhaust valve closes before the intake valve does (this is possible because one piston in a given cylinder pair controls each port). I imagine that this part of the cycle allows for a bit of pressure boost.
>I think you have to find that out yourself.

This won't really do anything to bring people closer to Common Lisp.

This is a bad thing btw.
Well, I have personally contributed 1000 answers to Lisp questions on Stackoverflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/users/69545/rainer-joswig?tab=answe...
I found this to be overly critical of Buzzfeed's content, and I believe that Buzzfeed's potential and current success comes from the content structure. I personally have faith that people are interested in consuming useful and intelligent information in order to improve their knowledge, so that they may perform better in the future for tasks like voting. With this assumption, it's amazing how much traffic BF generates with the allegedly weak quality of content that it possesses, which essentially is proof that something else must be working. Now that we have a proven structure for content, we simply need to fill in content. Isolated to one region, like the US, the content to be filled in we are all familiar with. But imagine that we expand to all regions. It must be at least an order of magnitude easier to start a news site using BF's strategy in any place, like Africa, which I would guess is at least part of the reason that a16z chose to invest.
ay's comment is great. You dodging my question? Not great.

I have to ask, have you even visited panopticlick? Go visit, using the browser that you typically use to browse the web. Slow your roll, and take time to actually understand what the site is telling you.

Also: "I believe that if this start being used, browser vendors will crack down on this".

You... are clearly not aware of what's happening in the Internet advertising space.

Visit https://panopticlick.eff.org/ (I mean it. Do this. Don't just blow hot air.) and ask yourself which of those things that the browser has been happily giving away for ages could easily be removed without breaking much of the useful functionality of the web.
Yup. iptables should really have a "figure out how to mirror this" mode, since 99% of iptables rules can be translated to ip6tables rules by sprinkling 6s around, and almost everyone screws it up initially.
Sorry about that. Do give it another whirl now please.This was an error with our db service provider. Apologies again.
Yes, it is remarkably difficult to get into Common Lisp—or at least, it was until Practical Common Lisp (http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/) came out, and it still is for topics PCL doesn't cover in-depth (e.g. CLOS).

On Lisp is definitely not a good beginners' resource. It's a great book in many ways, but I would never recommend it over PCL.

Lispers in general tend to have a fairly old-fashioned mentality (due, no doubt, to many of us being older) about many things. I think it's fair to say that there's much less of a sharing mindset, and much more of a closed mindset; the other way of wording that is that lispers are getting things done and making money doing them, not spending time updating community sites and sharing code (although there are some excellent open-source packages out there).

I'd really like to figure out how to build more of a Common Lisp community. The more I use it, the more I realise that it's a solid, professional, well-thought-out language for developing solid, flexible, reliable software. It's not perfect, but much of what looks like warts at first are actually features. Using it is the closest thing to expressing my thoughts as code. It really is a joy.
This did not deserve down-votes. All he did was disagree with me, and bonus, he spelled out his disagreement.
The author is shorted sighted. I'm surprised so many people on HN following his thought patterns, because what Buzzfeed is doing is nothing short of classic disruption.

In a disruptive startup, you always start with a _worse_ product that appeals to a marginally group of users who'll fervently love you.

The demographic that's on Buzzfeed all the time, is the type who wouldn't be reading news anyways. So what if they look at cats and take quizes, and once in a while eyeball an article about Ferguson / Ukraine / ISIS that they wouldn't have done anyways. Look at http://www.buzzfeed.com/world, how many of those are linkbaits? How many are quality contents? It's not unimaginable that overtime, the (vegetable news) : (shitty news) ratio can increase.

Hating on Buzzfeed is like hating on Pinterest in early days because it was made for a bunch of old women, or AirBNB because it promotes unsafe and unregulated travel, or Dropbox because it promotes uncontrolled privacy by moving your stuff online. You can't please everyone all the time, so you start with a niche and increase quality overtime to appeal the the mass audience.

Why can't people accept that Buzzfeed, at its current state, isn't meant to appeal to everyone? Those who bash at Buzzfeed sound like the mindless YouTube comments on Justin Bieber's videos saying how shitty his music is. It's not for you. Don't listen to it.
I recommend moving to openlayers 3 (http://openlayers.org) - it's not backward compatible with OL2, but the improvement in user interaction and tile display is worth it, especially on mobile targets.

(not affiliated, but use it heavily for my own projects)
People publish (and make policy on) bad statistics all the time; peer reviewed and otherwise. Compared to the idiocy that's been promulgated in economics or, say, nutrition, this hardly seems to qualify for the word "dangerous."