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> The one feature that really differentiates Lisp from other languages is its macro system.

That's not exactly true. There are many languages, both old and new, which provide macro systems comparable to defmacro and/or syntax-rules. Dylan, Nimrod, Julia and Elixir come to mind.

I personally don't think there's one feature which makes lisps this great. It's really the whole experience, from syntax to repls to tools and so on.
It's no more of a bridge, then WinForms is a bridge to Win32...
The Underlying Layer in Most 'Secure' Messaging Apps Might Not Be So Secure
Repokar Added New Program to Offer Stress Free Experience in Selling Your Car
It looks like Munira attended Stanford as an undergraduate, as she is an alumni of the Mayfield Fellows program [1]. However, it is not clear whether she graduated.

[1] http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/mfp/cgi-bin/mfpalumni/may_view...
Exactly the case for my site. I have patched the line 12hour after public disclosure. I have not updated Drupal Core, nor CHANGELOG.txt because there was nothing more than the patched line.
I had a Nexus 4 and was quite happy with it, but the (relatively) terrible camera was what made me switch back to an iPhone.
That is a remarkable suite of tools available, and all for free. I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before, but I'll certainly be looking into it. Thanks for the tip!
HR doesn't even have a useful offensive role in most companies. In theory they should identify staffing requirements, find great people, create competitive benefits packages to attract them, and run snappy business processes to get them in the door.

Usually they wind up mangling the staffing requirements provided by the managers, farming applicant discovery out to headhunters, cutting corners on benefits to boost profits, and put new hires and their target teams through byzantine processes.
Buffett to Buy Duracell in $4.7B Deal
Sorry, but Google is probably the biggest threat to our privacy.
I'll try to give a pragmatic example. At work, we've got a lot of analytics code in C# for model-estimation, pricing, etc. I spend a lot of time tweaking models, running them, then extracting and analyzing the results. F# works very well as a scripting language for me, where otherwise I would be using something like IronPython.

The results-processing I could do from anything (R, python), but scripting the run (running N random samples of something, doing simple cross-validation, manually hacking a pseudo-hierarchical model, etc.) is much easier when I have direct access to the C# API.

Since the codebase is always-evolving, the type checks of F# (as opposed to IronPython) are useful when going back to an old script.

I also just enjoy using F#. I'd been hoping to learn a ML-family language for years and working at a F#-friendly shop has let me do that.
One might take the Kowloon Walled City as an example of organic human architecture.

It would indeed be interesting to see where architecture ends up when given a ride on a genetic algorithm, although the parameters will need to be very, very detailed, and might be compiled from inputs such as "people always get lost at these 5 intersections", "this corner smells bad on hot days", and "raw sewage comes out of my tap when more than 6 people shower at the same time".
We are alive as far as we want to be alive. We can be that "better form" of life, it's questionable that a better form of life can emerge from scratch. If our own behavior is going to get us extinct, so be it, let's help the nature then!

Besides that, I think that personification of "Mother Universe" is just a xenophobic form of human fear of the "otherness" surrounding us. There is no monolithic Mother Universe, more probably, there is a mesh of living creatures and natural phenomena we are a part of.

We are a part of Mother Universe.
Can anybody guess the product used in this blog post? It was newsworthy recently.
The problem with this argument is that even if there were multible open source platforms you have "cross platform" problems. Any deversity will result in extra work. So you can either have the one thing to rule them all, or you will have to spend time on doing it for everything.

I admit that IE was shit and it did cost a lot of time. But how about we get over it? They admitied that IE was shitty and now they are doing much better.

There are products from other company that used to be shit, now they are better and people dont still hate on that.

Also, dont think im a idialist who does not remember the past, I was optimizing for IE6 not all that long ago.
Would you say the LG G3 and Xperia Z3 have better camera's than the iPhone? Or do you mean in comparison to other Android devices?
Amazon should be smart enough to know they can't put in a clause that's too far-reaching and preventing people from working anywhere in the world. I view it as more or less of a threat and nothing more. They wouldn't come after you if you walked across the street to Microsoft, Yahoo, or Apple. It happens all of the time.
The important part is that the anonymity set - the amount of traffic among which those with a need for anonymity can hide - becomes larger no matter what the people without a need for anonymity do.

Consider the extreme case where Tor is only used by dissidents in a single country X. As soon as country X's secret police observes your home internet connection connect to Tor relays, they know that you are a dissident.

Now consider the case where only 1% of the traffic on Tor is by dissidents in country X. When your home internet connection is observed to carry Tor traffic, it is impossible to tell whether you're among the 1% of dissidents or the 99% of non-dissidents. So they have some reason to suspect you, but it's already a clear win, because rounding up and terrorizing 100x as many people takes more effort and is more likely to result in pushback.

The only place in the Tor network where the "trying to remain anonymous" makes a difference is when the secret police collects exit relay traffic. However, if all they see is that 1% of exit traffic is TLS sessions to dissidents.xx and the other 99% is unencrypted sessions to facebook.com (hypothetically), that still doesn't help them figure out which Tor clients are sending those 1% of traffic that they want to chase down.

Of course, all of the above is subject to the inherent limitations of Tor (e.g., somebody who is able to observe all relays can do statistical timing-based attacks to correlate relay input-streams with relay output-streams; they can then trace back the Tor circuits and figure out which user is responsible for which exit traffic; somebody who is able to observe a fraction of relays will be able to do such correlation attacks with a certain probability of success; the secret police might observe dissidents.xx as well as the home connections of everybody using Tor, and might be able to sieve out the 1% of dissidents using timing correlation, etc. [0]). The point is that the nature of the 99% of non-targeted traffic doesn't matter; the important thing is that it's there, and the more, the better.

[0] This seems to suggest that if you want to hide some of your traffic via Tor, it actually makes sense to tunnel everything via Tor. However, this also has problems: for example, if you use the same browser to access both facebook.com and dissidents.xx, browser fingerprinting might kill you. I don't actually know what the best practices recommendation is. Given an adversary with sufficiently tight control over the communications infrastructure, you're basically screwed.
Arduino + NRF24, and optionally a Raspberry PI as the main controlling device hooked up to the Internet and a Bluetooth receiver.
The Cause Behind Jupiter’s Red Spot – Mistery Solved
According to this [1] article (dated today) in Business Insider Australia, Kivin Varghese has been camping outside Amazon's HQ until it addresses his complaint.

It also has a more readable explanation of who/what/when than the linked pdf.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-employee-lawsuit-ki...
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/image-bq-aquaris-ubuntu-p...

There are companies working on tablets too. I probably know a couple of companies working on this but I can't talk about it. :-D

It is almost a prototype now. In a couple of years I will consider using them.

The most important thing right now is improving and stabilizing the graphic system with Wayland and Mir.
maybe this article should be: what if apple and google weren't draconian dicks with their app stores?

maybe valve and apple could reach some kind of agreement anyway, but the real blocker there i see is that steam fundamentally violates the app store requirements because apple don't want anyone to sell anything unless its through their app store.

google i'm less sure about, i'm not up to date with the latest dev requirements, but i suspect they have introduced similar things recently.

however... cross platform integration is something that developers can do anyway i don't see any reason why savegames can't be shared if the api is based on normal current network technology and is platform agnostic. an obvious example would be a rest api interface to a server for save games - such an api can be used identically across all platforms, although gamedevs might want something lower level and less filled with cruft than a TCP/IP connection with HTTP over the top, even those constraints aren't very prohibitive... UDP communications work fine across everything, and the good ol' BSD sockets/Winsock are easy to work with cross platform so long as you respect things like using network byte ordering and don't rely on exotic socket options.
OT but I think GitHub should show tabs as 4 columns. I find Go code is hard to read with all this whitespace.
Visual Studio Community Edition Released
National Geographic – Real-Life 'Unicorn' Found
Ah cool, just wanted to clarify as I'm only a beginner for much of this stuff, but found your posts very interesting.

Thanks!
> The Nexus 9 has a 64 bit chip

Plus there's a raft of Chinese-market 64-bit phones already, waiting for Android 5.0.

I mean, the Oppo R5 is the World's thinnest phone and it has an eight-core 64-bit Snapdragon chipset! We are so far behind in the 'West'...
‘Cartell’ Chat Room Traders Boasted of Whacking FX Market
A 40-Year Hunt for a Bully
You realize it's a metaphor and not a literal gun, right?

And surely the most popular OS will be the one most targeted by criminals no matter what it is.
Well, he wrote it, he marked it confidential, he is free to release it under different terms.
>>Now I am back home and guess what? I am finding that the same kind of people around here are claiming the same thing.

Maybe they really feel better on gluten-free diet ?

>>I fell people want to be special and sometimes they do it by having a special condition or something like that.

You are the worse kind of skeptic. People are telling you that they are feeling better/some conditions go away on gluten free diet and you not only don't believe them but you project some silly justification on them like "want to feel special".

>>I can't seat still, I really can't. And I talk a lot too... I've lived like that, learned to control it and to focus when needed.

It's easier to learn for some and more difficult for others. That you were able to learn on your own doesn't mean others can without pharmacological help. Also maybe some people other than you feel better on gluten free diet.
The Surprising Complexity of Old-School Calculators
Even if it is so (and we can talk for hours on the validity of this or that data) how do you find the fact that there are enough damned means of production to feed everyone and it's been so for decades now? Also how do you like the fact that there are now about 50-60 MILLION people in US that get food stamps. Or the fact that the wages for most of the western world are falling for 30 years now?
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Whatever.
> I'm actually really unclear on what alleged value Scribd might bring to users. Why do people even use it and/or link to it?

I think it's got something to do with how it's a Y Combinator graduate.
I've been contacted twice in ten years. The positions were interesting, but their reputation preceded them even back then, so I never seriously considered it. I personally (and possibly unfairly based on hearsay) lump them with Dish as dysfunctional employers.
Didn't downvote you, but maybe because that sounds a bit anecdotal. Also for a "dying company", they do very well.
Show HN: Annotated Stacktraces
Very cool. After my M.Sc. I'm going to need to find a job, and since OCaml jobs are pretty much inexistant in Montreal, F# is my backup plan.
EFF Asks for the Right to Software
"2) Something like that should be a dealbreaker. No matter how much you want the job, it's effectively saying that you can never leave."

Based on your username I'm going to assume you're not used to conditions in the US. In my experience, working for 2 megacorps and a startup, this is pretty standard. So if that is a deal breaker good luck finding a job without moving to California. I think I read a story on HN a few weeks ago that said Jimmy Johns was enforcing non-compete agreements. The last one I signed basically said the company owns all work I do, even work I do in my own time (OSS, side projects, etc). I also am required to get permissions to contribute to OSS projects should I want to do that. I also cannot work for competitors (which is like everyone in the industry). I signed it because I don't think it is enforceable and I don't think the company would waste resources trying to enforce it on me.

There needs to be a federal law limiting the scope of these agreements. Preferable modeled after the CA laws.
Self assessment is notoriously useless.

Being a skeptic practically requires that you ignore anything based on it.

(but, for instance, hives during an allergic reaction can be assessed by a third party, so they aren't the same as "I feel better.")
I couldn't agree more.

The concept of trusting what is essentially an Ad company with a penchant for spending it's profits on projects to convince the tech community it's "cool" on anything privacy related is either the greatest practical joke of the 21st century or the reason we can't have nice things.
I don't know how big of a "secret" it actually is -- I think it's just that most people make assumptions about what HR does and why they exist. It's less that the information is hidden and more that people just don't bother looking for it.

My wife is an attorney who works in HR and labor relations. HR existing to protect the company was one of the first things she learned in either an HR class or employment law class.
What a closed-minded attitude!
Fad, identity, feel special... what about: they experiment with things and many of them have found that gluten-free makes them feel better. Why are you dismissing the most natural explanation of all while patronizing them in the process ?
This appears to be a lot deeper than Munira. It appears to indicate that there is serious culture rot at Amazon. That is an issue worthy of discussion on HN in my opinion, for numerous reasons. Such culture rot type discussions have occurred surrounding a lot of other companies, including Microsoft, IBM, HP, and so on.
Looks more like Naitik Shah's open-source libraries.
http://cwrap.org/
The only non competes I have heard of personally are ones that deal with clients. A few people I knew were not allowed to use their existing clients if they went to work for a competitor.

Sometimes companies will make you sign a noncompete if you accept a severance from them.

A family member asked his new company if they would match the severance so he wouldnt have to sign a non-compete. The new company agreed and he was able to keep his clients and got a signing bonus!
>Allowing everyone on Steam would be a mistake; driving down the minimum quality of games makes it harder to discover and reward the best games.

They are working in steps towards this. The last discovery update addresses a lot of the problems they had with discoverability and also focuses on rewarding better games more than subpar ones.
How NYC Became the Role Model for Other Urban Tech Hubs [pdf]
"Member of a protected class" is probably a more accurate term (if applicable). (IANAL) And if she's a member of a protected class in the US or her state, then yes, any company has to consider the consequences of being involved in a protected class employment suit.
I certainly do. On cloud no less. The reality is that Amazon got to market several years before Google, so GCP had some catching up to do. That trend is changing, and this is one indication.
I haven't tried a G3, but I do think the Xperia Z3 does (and the Z2 perhaps, too). At snapshot size, Xperia pics are indistinguishable from photos taken with a traditional point & shoot -- as long as lighting conditions are reasonable.
Realistically speaking, I suspect that if this does take off (and it is a very cool idea), they won't actually install those things in living rooms due to noise concerns. Those racks are going to be in the basement where the other heating equipment typically is.

So police are going to get a warrant that is limited to the basement room containing the racks. the home owners will be slightly annoyed and inconvenienced, but they aren't going to put up a fight against the warrant. They'll be more than happy to cooperate with the police.
I think that a link to a PDF will be converted to a Scribd link by the YCombinator software because scribd is a ycombinator company.

That might not still happen.
Well, yes, you can add a rectangle quite easily:

type Shape =
| Circle of float
| Square of float
| Rectangle of float * float

The thought about adding new shapes (mentioned several times in this thread) is just misplaced. If you're releasing library code people should not be extending your built-in types, that's bad form -- consumers of a library should interact with it through interfaces only.
The Hyper-V requirement is kind of a pain - or rather, the requirements to run Hyper-V are a pain. On non-server versions of Windows, it's only available on Windows 8+ Pro / Enterprise. So anyone with Windows 7 or non-Pro Windows 8 can't run it.

I've been to a few Windows Phone developer camps and this is always an issue for attendees.
You know, I was sad that the most upvoted link today was this story and not the awesome picture sent by the comet probe. Do people here really think this is today's most significant event ? And I was thinking that the same story about $NAME_ALSO_WITHHELD instead of Amazon would never have made it to the front page.

So I was curious if $NAME_WITHHELD and $NAME_ALSO_WITHHELD was the same company and looked into it. Took me one minute and apparently it was...
Where did all the good clients go?
This is ridiculous. Self-assessment is the most important tool for finding what works. It's not easy to do it right but still. Sometimes it's very easy. When something very specific goes away when you change your diet (like bloating or some specific pain you had for long time) then you have very strong evidence that it worked.
except steam quality already has taken a massive planned nose-dive already

The reason behind showing metacritic score, user reviews, and curator reviews, along with introducing a discovery system that considers the quality of the games it suggests, and pushing some of the approval process onto the users (greenlight), has been all to try and decrease Valve's position as an authority on game quality.

There are some horrifyingly poor games on steam already, most of which get removed after a bunch of people complain about it either a) being a scam, or b) being literally unplayable, after which no refunds are given and the game is removed from the store.

But bad games, who make truthful claims, are fine, and that is intended
Procedurally generated recipes
Any studies being done on sinus related problems? Nasal cavities are hard to reach to deliver medication or to just flush the debris out. Nasal bacteria that fight/feed on mold/fungi?
HN rehosts PDF links on Scribd, last I checked.
Humble Bundle already have a head start on them in mobile.
I find the situation where we grant rights to our citizens without granting them to foreigners (particularly citizens of our close allies, but also foreigners in general) bizarre and backwards. While I'm sure that there are some rights that cannot be extended to non-citizens, it seems that the default should be to treat all people independently of their country of origin unless there are strong arguments why we cannot.
"A survey of 181 attendees at the 2012 Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas found that 36 percent of “information security professionals” said they’d engaged in retaliatory hack-backs."

What? Black Hat attendance is in the high thousands. A plurality of those attending are IT professionals --- people that wouldn't have the technical capability to take over a botnet even if they wanted to. Even if you broadened the definition of "hacking back", as some people do, to recon activities like port scans. No part of this anecdote makes sense.

For my part (I'm a security researcher by background, though that's not what I'm doing now, and I've presented at Black Hat numerous times): not only have I never met a professional who claimed to have "hacked back" anything, but I've never even met one who didn't think that was a crazy idea.

There is a difference between major organized efforts to bring down botnets and "hackback" the way the term gets associated with Endgame.
Munich - In the night of Saturday to Sunday, a special unit of the police raided the home of retired gardener Heinz S. to seize several cloud computers. Heinz S. allegedly participated as a volunteer to hide Piratecloud servers in Germany.

"I just wanted some heat from the thing, I don’t even know what it really is", is the unlikely claim of Heinz S., who turned 76 this year.

On Tuesday, he has to state his case in court, together with 22 other people who surprisingly tell a very similar story.
Getting good with women and how I’ve done almost everything in my life wrong
"Even a basic knowledge of labour laws is not a pre-requisite for a career in HR."

This is the surprising thing to me. My wife works in HR, but is also an attorney and her boss and boss's boss are also attorneys. They run their department substantially more in line with federal and state laws than just about any other I've encountered. When we're talking with friends and other people who work in HR, she usually later tells me everything they're doing wrong and it's interesting how far off-base many companies are.
Many companies do have this, sometimes called an ombudsman.
Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code
Or better, we should save source code files replacing tabs with spaces. That's the best practice that makes everybody happy.
I find this too. When we were acquired we (group of employees) had lawyers come in (to a bar) to go over the agreement the new company required we signed. The lawyer basically said not to sign it because they could probably enforce it. Ultimately the company made it seem like we were making a big deal out of something they would never try to enforce but still insisted everyone had to sign it. A few people refused to sign. Other signed and then left for competitors anyway. A majority signed it and still work for the new company.
This is probably another issue. They definitely haven't started to deploy ARM version of games yet, even though there's numerous games that are 'ARM' compatible. Although, any game coded in Java and similar frameworks could in theory already run on top of arm versions of said frameworks I suppose.
Setting up and securing a server would be a lot of extra work, and then also wouldn't trust the 3rd party software that would need to run. Not trying to be a negative nelly, just giving honest feedback.
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Yea, if you're just checking based on the 7.32 version I don't think your results would be accurate. There are sites that applied that patch to their 7.X version.