skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author deliberately used the term "LISP Machine", with all of the letters of Lisp capitalized, but that's an anachronism (and a fairly good shibboleth). When they were developed they ran Lisp Machine Lisp, not LISP. And as far as I know they never used the specific appellation "LISP Machines", where the word Lisp was written in all capitals but the word machines was not.

Edit: It's hard to distinguish someone's tone on the internet, but I did not intend to be captious or mean spirited. My point is that there are enough differences between LISP and Lisp Machine Lisp, a descendent of Maclisp, that the two are not interchangeable.
Forget it and move on. Honestly, they will get over it and forget it too in a few months, or sooner.
No link found between movie, video game violence and societal violence
The high-flying Quadrofoil hydrofoil is ready for production
this made me cry.
Indeed, the evidence is pretty damning.

My guess is that this ends with him fired from Ubert. Now that Lyft has presented the evidence, that may be the only way for Uber to avoid liability itself.
See answer to moonka.
Despite the absurdity of the reports, all i can think of is: DUDE, PUBLISH YOUR DATA.
Uber is proving to be one very shitty organization.
Yup, collaborative rich text editing is a surprisingly thorny problem.

ShareJS and Quill have actually been making some great progress on this though: https://github.com/share/ShareJS/issues/1
>The administrative cost in giving money in status quo benefit programs is tied up in means-testing, use-enforcement, behavior-testing, etc. -- making sure that all the variable inputs that control who gets which benefits, how much of those benefits they get, and how those benefits can be used. That's the whole problem unconditional basic income solves.

It's also a problem solved by a job guarantee. There is no need to create elaborate tests to see if the welfare job seeker is really looking for work. If they want a job, the state can provide it. If they don't want a job, no welfare.

With basic income or a job guarantee you will still need additional welfare (and means testing) for the disabled simply because they require more resources than a regular unemployed joe and really cannot work.

Those means testing things would crop up again even if you created a basic income tomorrow because the protestant work ethic so deeply embedded in our culture would create a political imperative for it to happen. Politicians would get to work corrupting it straight away.
Germany's top publisher bows to Google in news licensing row
Fatal accident tests Lyft’s $1M insurance policy
Those are very valid points, and they certainly apply at the moment. However, I think that this ceases to be an issue when meta-rideshare services begin to emerge, which I think is (technologically) inevitable.

What I think we will see is that a driver will use a meta-rideshare to be available on all ridesharing services (Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, etc.) just in order to maximize his/her rides per hour.

The same for users, who will use a meta-rideshare to query all ridesharing services in order to get a ride as quickly/cheaply as possible.

A great analogy for this is in airlines: yes, some airlines are bigger than others and consequently have certain advantages. But most customers use flight search engines (Google Flights, Kayak, etc.) in order to find the cheapest/best flights.

The only counter-argument to this would be that users would have some sort of brand preference for choosing Uber every time rather than using a meta-rideshare to find the chapest/fastest ride. But such brand loyalty is unlikely too emerge: (1) Uber's public image is far too tainted, and (2) it's very hard to differentiate Uber's core product (seat in a car) from that of the competitors.
What Do You Need?
In Which I Mind the Gap
I want someone at HN to build a small network device which I can plug a NAS or USB drive into. Buy a pair, install one at your buddies/mothers house. They find each other over magically over the internet and any data you put on the local drive gets encrypted and put on the other remote drive.

Other drive burns down / is stolen, no problem. Your house burns down, go and pick up your photos, enter your passphrase.

I'll pay 200€ or so. The hard part is convincing another million people they want one, I guess.
I see no claim in the parent that everything done by the PWA was make-work. Also, while creating jobs was an important motivation of the PWA, to the best of my knowledge it never included any guarantee.
Notably, acquisition, which is what happened to VanderZanden is one of the few cases non-compete is enforceable, meaning they either didn't bother imposing a non-compete upon acquisition or it was only for 1 year and he ran out his term.
Wanted to check this - please put up a "Getting Started" documentation. Good job btw :)
Show HN: MrMarkov (Markov Text Generator as an API)
http://mrmarkov.herokuapp.com/text

Hi all, this is a personal project I've been working on for two weeks or so. I was interested in Markov Chains, and came across their use to generate text, and also wanted to learn how to create an API. So, I combined the two to make an API that generates random text based on text you submit to it.

To generate your own text with this, just submit a POST request to the above URL with the original text you want to use as the base text to generate new text. For example (using Requests from Python):

import requests

payload = {'original_text':'''This is a test. This is only a test. This is my test.'''}

requests.post("http://mrmarkov.herokuapp.com/text",data=payload)

Longer pieces of text, such as paragraphs from Shakespeare or Wikipedia generate more realistic sentences.

The response will have a field called "sentence", which will contain the generated text. Try it out! Let me know what you think!
>It's really easy to believe that certain corporate lawyer jobs have no social value, or negative social value.

Because it's largely true. They are there to let corporations use the law as a tool to make higher profits.

They make so MUCH money not because they can convince corporations that they need to drop unfair terms from employment contracts but because they can figure out a way to get them included. That makes them very profitable as well as unethical, hence their high wage.

If all they did was the kind of thing you're talking about - ensuring compliance with the law rather than creative ways of getting around it - their pay would be average or low because they are not making the company money.

>In particular I'm unconvinced by the link drawn between "talented poet-musicians" failing to get their recording contracts renewed and maldistribution of incomes, as if the 99% were unable to afford to patronise poet-musicians rather than seeing no value in doing so.

Really? I'm convinced. Are most Americans financially secure enough to be patrons of the arts? HELL no. Rent, healthcare and education are #1 priorities because they're so fucking expensive.

Why are they so expensive?

Because the corporate (debt) beast needs to be fed.
I don't understand why most of the commenters here are focusing on the privacy implications rather than the technical aspects.

Is this really a privacy breach? It's been obvious that Google stores revision history since it launched—you've always been able to access a thorough revision history in the UI itself...
Because only the rich can evade taxes in this way. Which means the middle class ends up paying a disproportionate amount of tax. Which is unfair.
A bad interviewer is not necessarily a bad employer, anyway.
Lyft is US-only so far, so they haven't had a chance to run into European regulators, airport operators and cabbies. They also haven't entered combatant US markets like Las Vegas.

I try to distribute my spending equally, since a dominating player would be quick to raise the prices on consumers, but it's certainly hard to spend more money on Lyft unless you happen to live within one of their coverage markets and don't travel much.
How to fix a typo during high traffic (six digit CCUs) without breaking:
1. svn commit
2. Wait for all the tests to pass
3. Run imvu_website_push

Oh, yeah, we are hiring, and don't ask the egg question during interviewing.
:-)
I said "let's have something like the PWA - what would be wrong with that?". OP responded with:

"because no one needs to be forced into economically inefficient make-work jobs"
Drug Czar is an executive appointment. If Obama had been the change he campaigned on he could have directed that the DEA, an _executive_ agency stop enforcing federal law on marijuana in states where it's been legalised. The grandparent wasn't talking about "the government". He was talking about Obama.
> rates of depression are dramatically higher when you introduce these sorts of jobs vs. letting people scrape by working land in a 3rd world setting

First of all, I don't think there's anyway you can assert that. We have no real data about what depression rates were like when these jobs were introduced.

Second of all, the notion that all of these people could be simple, back to the earth farmers is the alternative is all kinds of incorrect.

Third, the notion that even if they were back to the earth farmers they would be happier than factory workers is also one that, from what I've seen, is based entirely on sentiment and not on evidence.
And then there's the rest of the world:

Python: Interpreted language, right? Then what are all those .pyc files doing? You can say it's compiled into an interpreted form, but then JVM bytecode comes along, which is interpreted right up until you find an implementation that JITs. Or is it only compiled if you save the compiled form to disk, like you do with gcj?

Scheme: An interpreted language in Guile, a compiled language in Stalin?
Wow, beautiful poetry. The article, and recently a documentary on the garment trade in Bangledesh [1] had me thinking about ethical consumption. Ever since watching "The Story of Stuff" [2] I've wanted a way to easily understand the ethical implications of purchases. I'd like to scan a bar code and get a 1-to-5 rating of how ethical and fair the product life cycle is - something like that. I'd be willing to pay more, and do with less, if it meant knowing that my purchases contributed to a healthy work-life balance, living wage, and... well, hope, basically, for the various people involved in the production chain. The Fair Trade label on my coffee doesn't go very far to quell the inner conviction that stories like this increasingly raise. I don't really care for a gold iGadget, or whatever, but I'd love one that's built with empathy. I don't buy the argument that fair-trade is a luxury for the upper middle class. I think it would benefit everyone and contribute to a more participatory economy. [3]

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/made-in-banglades...

[2] http://storyofstuff.org/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8548035
I am sorry to point this out, but the patent license of Proxygen does not look similar to that of Apache License for two reasons.

- the license is terminated when one files a claim against _any_ of Facebook's software or services (IIRC Apache License gets terminated only when filed against the software)

- the license also terminates when you claim that "any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable"

The second clause seems very agressive (or pro-patent) to me, which makes me feel sorry for the developers of Proxygen, since IMO such a clause would harm the acceptance of the software outside Facebook.

It would be great if you reconsider the patent license.

Disclaimer: I am developer of H2O, an open-source HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 library, so there is obviously a conflict of interest here. But I wanted to leave a comment anyways since, honestly, I feel sorry if my friends at Facebook needs to go with this kind of license.
That's not what you said. You said, "This is preferable to a Basic Income", and linked both the PWA and a page on a job guarantee. I don't think dragonwriter's response would have been the same to the above. A job guarantee necessarily involves possibility of make-work, or it's not a guarantee.
I couldn't agree more. In certain states in India, the so-called "buying" of votes is pretty rampant. Politicians offer food, alcohol, TV, money, you name it. Whatever is at their disposal is distributed to the community to instigate people to vote for them.

And of course, a lot of people are still falling for the "if you try to fool us we will find out" nonsense. The election commission has curbed it to a huge extent. Yet the scale at which such a scam is happening is simply mind boggling.

When I see "delegative democracy", all I see are holes.
I believe this is the rough idea behind https://www.spacemonkey.com/
* High speed rail.

* High quality housing projects in cities like San Francisco and New York to bring down the currently insane costs implying an insane level of demand.

* America has plenty of crumbling infrastructure.
Computing really hasn't figured out how to handle non-volatile memory as yet. It's almost always used to emulate rotating disks, with file systems, named files, and a trip through the OS to access anything. Access times for non-volatile memory are orders of magnitude faster than disk access times, so small accesses are feasible. But that's not how it's treated under existing operating systems.

There are alternatives. Non-volatile memory could be treated as a key/value store, or a tree, with a storage controller between the CPU and the memory device. With appropriate protection hardware, this could be accessed from user space through special instructions. That's what I though this article indicated. But no. This is just better cache management for the OS.
While it's true that they might have the incentive to do this because of affiliate fees, they'd need access to the particular site's price-steering specifics, which I doubt they'd give out due to competitive reasons. (For Amazon itself, the OP article doesn't mention price-steering, and the incident from 2000 it linked [1] quotes CEO who promised to never do it again)

If they don't have access to that, they can't price-steer or else users would notice discrepancies between the listed price and the site's price and the main users of those sites are the price-minded.

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2000/09/25/daily2...
This could be done mostly transparently, with the encryption in the memory controller. Addresses and data are already scrambled with a (non-cryptographic) scrambling code for EMI reasons. Of course, a sufficiently fast hardware crypto core would be required.

EDIT: Also, I forgot that the last generation of consoles (and I assume the current) have transparent encryption of main memory.
Unfair perhaps, but I have a hunch that such people would make much better politicians than those who seek power. I'd even suggest that this could be the definition of citizenship: if you want to be a citizen (and vote), then you need to be willing to accept that you might be elected to serve.
> the barriers to entry for this market are actually very low

How so? First you have to line up enough drivers to make it worthwhile, and then get enough app downloads by consumers to make it worthwhile for drivers.

Both groups will inquire about your differentiating factor, and to sign up on either side you would have to promise higher payouts to the drivers or lower prices for consumers, both at expense of your margins, which limits the scale of your deployment.
Laid-Back Company Allows Employees to Work from Home After 6 P.M
>Your argument seems to hinge on this, but I see no reason to believe it.

Why else did the people under Plan Jefes CONTINUE doing their jobs - kind of for free, really - after the jobguarantee was replaced with an income guarantee?

>Much of the unskilled labor done by the CCC has since been automated into fewer skilled jobs. "It worked in a completely different world" doesn't convince me that it'll work in this one.

I'm very unimpressed with the idea that automation has killed off all our jobs and will continue to do so. It's pushed as a red herring for the sudden surge in unemployment since the 1990s that was nearly ALL political in origin.

If automation had replaced all those jobs instead of politics deciding that they were unnecessary then our infrastructure would be in considerably better shape. It isnt'.

>See what I said re: unskilled->skilled labor shift. To what degree do you actually expect unskilled labor to move those programs along? They're held up by engineering problems, not labor shortages.

We've actually had a skilled labor -> unskilled labor shift since 2008. Check the statistics.

I don't expect a job guarantee to provide only unskilled jobs, either. I expect it to provide jobs for unemployed engineers, just like the PWA did. Hell, the PWA gave Milton Friedman a job as an economist (we needed them too). It's where he got his start. It wasn't only for unskilled laborers.
Well, it's coming, slowly. Must be China's nightmare?

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/07/09/report-foxconn-robot...
Amazing article, very touching.
I remember your posts, and always appreciated your perspective.

I also canceled my membership a few years ago for the same reasons. Post and comment counts seem to be down significantly from those days, so there may have been an exodus.
The Not So Special Hundred-Million-Dollar Giacometti
The Reddit discussion linked to int he comments is informative.
I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,

The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains: round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.
>someone manages the DNS-SD records on the unicast DNS server so you don't need mDNS to be the mule for DNS-SD to ride on in those circumstances.

Are you talking about TXT records for services or something like that? I thought that most of the consumer level tools (for adding printers) were only looking for records via mDNS.

That said, in $CURRENTJOB, network printers are found via whatever the current version of NETBIOS is called - I don't think I've seen any mDNS traffic around.
I think the problem with this site is that it acknowledges that interview questions are something you can study for specifically.

Interview questions as a whole apparently have nothing to do with ability to really code. That's just sad isn't it? Riddles are no fun if they have to be solved under pressure.
Foscam has a bunch of models that do just this
If LispMs are for monks or nuns, is ITS for sorcerers?

I especially liked how you could patch a running kernel, but only if you entered a specific keystroke sequence the right way the first time. If you muffed it, a flag got set and the system would disallow future attempts even if you got it right later. It's more like a puzzle in a text adventure than an OS security mechanism.

And, of course, the command shell was a machine code debugger, but that really wasn't hugely weird in itself.
Matias Duarte on Google's 'Share' Icon
> First you have to line up enough drivers to make it worthwhile, and then get enough app downloads by consumers to make it worthwhile for drivers.

You're assuming that drivers/consumers will be exclusively using your service.

Few drivers are going to drive exclusively for your service. The assumption is that your drivers will already be driving for Uber, Lyft, etc. and will sign up with your service just in order to marginally raise their expected number of rides per hour (hoping that your service might get them a ride when business is slow on Uber, etc.).

Similarly, few consumers are loyal to exclusively one service. They don't care about the difference between Uber and Lyft, they care about getting a cheap ride, quickly. They'll try Uber for a ride. Maybe Uber will be surge-priced. They'll try Lyft, which might not have any drivers on the road. They'll try your service.
What I meant is db tables and field names get converted into ruby class names and properties/methods. This is basically convention over configuration. It's the same with angular.
>I want to spend money to build the infrastructure we actually need. I don't want to throw money at boondoggles

I don't either, but there is no silver bullet to avoid boondoggles. Moving everything to the private sector certainly doesn't prevent them.
Boy do I hear that. What are some of the things that you want to do but don't make time for?
Much as I care about privacy and the exploitation of people's data for commercial gain, I find this a bit histrionic. If you put the automated camera inside your house and you are the sort of person who sometimes wanders around naked, then the two are eventually bound to collide (which is why I don't have automated cameras inside the house).

On the plus side, everybody has an ass and this one is so far into the background of the picture that the only conclusions I can reach about the subject are 'Mathowie is quite pale' and 'he has an ass like every other member of the human race.' In other words, this isn't really awkward enough to serve as a cautionary tale to anyone else. Now if he had been dressed up as a lobster that would be quite a different kettle of fish.
Yet another reason to cordon off printers and other mystery meat devices to their own special VLAN...
inclusiveness is vitally important to wikipedia's continued success and i'm glad the author raised that concern, but we should celebrate the mutual aid and solidarity that countless contributors have shown to the world by improving access to knowledge.

i donate money and time editing to wikipedia and would (shamelessly) encourage you to do the same. if you have money to donate, i'm willing to bet that you've benefited from wikipedia's breadth and depth at some point, and you can help make the world a better place by enabling others to do the same. if you have expertise to share, people really do benefit from your freely sharing what you know with people. and if you can encourage people whose expertise or backgrounds are under-represented on wikipedia, that would also help to empower even more people to contribute to "the sum of all knowledge".
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A long time ago in a lecture hall far far away a head of school was giving us a pre-exam talk of some kind. It was too all health science students. As he talked he logged into the system. With the projector showing what he was doing he missed the tab key and typed his username and password into the username field. I had a look round the room and no one else seemed to have noticed. On his desktop sat a folder titled "Exam papers" or something similar.
"the people who are currently unemployed would largely remain unemployed."

Why do you believe that? Some small portion of those working, with better things to do, will probably work less or stop working. This will represent a larger portion of the unemployed, because of the size of the two sets.

Meanwhile, demand will rise as the people at the bottom end of the income spectrum are more able to meet their needs.

With increased demand for labor and decreased supply, it should become quite a bit easier to find a job.

On top of that, looking for a job is quite a bit easier when you know you have some resources to fall back on, and a basic income can help provide the bandwidth to pursue whatever training, &c, they find appropriate rather than having to jump through bureaucratic hoops or focusing on scrounging together enough to get to tomorrow.

I expect quite a few of the unemployed would stop being unemployed with a modest basic income.
Billing support. Yuck.