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It's the default font on all Apple products and abbreviates to HN. My favorite variant is Ultra Light condensed. Unfortunately, a lot of people have problems reading such a light and tight typeface. Thus, I made an effort to use dynamic fonts in as many places as possible so that the font is the same size and weight as you would see in first party Apple apps.
We have been using "dirt" at work for about 2 years now and decided recently to open source the tool.

The idea behind dirt was that we we're doing a lot of tedious, manual tasks whenever creating and deploying projects. Dirt wraps this all up into automated processes, saving us a lot of time and headaches.
What is that "faster-than-light propagation of non-information" they mention observing?
Uber raises an additional $1.2B at $40B valuation to fund Asia expansion
Decrying. In, IIRC, his discussion/interview with Schmidt, he discusses takedowns of Guardian and other newspaper articles as how scandals of powerful figures can go 'down the memory hole'. I believe the right-to-be-forgotten is already being used that way, to cover up frauds and whatnot.
Yeah, I thought we were going to get a fun trip down memory lane...
Hubbard & Hubbard is a fantastic book; for the right audience, it may be all that is needed. I'd say that every mathematically minded engineer or physicist certainly should have it. It does a fantastic job of exposing the fundamental ideas of linear algebra and multivariable calculus--and in a way that doesn't require really any prerequisites beyond basic calculus. Reading this book is like being in a lecture with an experienced practitioner of both pure and applied mathematics simultaneously (well, this is actually true of Hubbard, but most texts are not written in a way that the author is so detailed and clear so as to seem present); the notes in the margins and the extensive, direct, and clear explanations are absolutely lovely.

That said, somebody interested in building a foundation for pure mathematics, and not so much motivated by the ability to solve problems outside of mathematics, would probably be better served by reading a standard text on real analysis.

On the other hand, I myself have turned to the notes in the margins of Hubbard & Hubbard, even when studying real analysis from the purest point-of-view, because the little tidbits are just so insightful.

Somebody who really took Hubbard & Hubbard seriously, though, could come away with a monster understanding of applied mathematics, while still having learned the craft in a way that is correct enough to lead to further study in pure mathematics as well. Nobody can really go wrong having this book on his or her shelf (although it is a bit expensive).
> If you're learning R, learn to use dplyr for data manipulation

I had been learning data.table, but I really like dplyr's % operator and the compositional functions better. I think I'm going to make the move to dplyr.
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Was Orwell's point one of ethics? Or just powerful government versus weak, with the idea that a powerful government will be tyranical rather than benevolent.

Is it not a common theme that a more powerful government offers greater stability with fewer freedoms while a weak government offers more freedom but also more chaos?
I wonder if it is faster than Clojure on Android.

Does anyone know?

I am still hoping that Clojure 1.7 will finally be fast enough.
I thought that was the official name for Uber/Lyft/etc.
For just determining if it's safe to take home - a Geiger counter will do. It needs to be able to count alpha & beta radiation, which they all pretty much do.

One would also help in checking for radioactive glaze used on Fiestaware plates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)#Radioactive...
Maybe I'm not seeing the forest for the trees here but I still don't understand what constructs you are referring to which are inadequate. Most Lisps are built from a very small selection of "special forms" and the rest is built in Lisp itself. From this perspective it's not a very large language at all. Is there a specific construct you had in mind?

Mutexes, goto... I'm afraid I don't understand. CL, for example, is an ANSI specification and makes no mention of threads or threading. That hasn't stopped implementations from providing OS support for threading and library authors from maintaining cross-implementation compatibility libraries. Mutexes are just one well-known method for solving a very specific problem with shared-memory threads. It's not even a primitive in the language itself. Macros helped us make threading possible without having to call together a new ANSI committee to extend the language specification.

In a similar vein I'm sure there are plenty of LINQ packages available in CL with all of the attendant parallelization patterns, etc.
So Turkey or Bulgaria will ask for data, Twlegram will give it, and these governments will say to shut up or we will fly to arrest you in whatever country you live and kick you into jail and we will get your money out of the banks, doesn't matter in what country it is. Seems possible like if you give a million dollar. Not impossible, as far as you give such money. But the countries I have mentioned are not that rich.

Also if you look at the forums about justice and advocates etc you can see that Microsoft provides user data but not Google or Facebook (except very big and obvious crimes). But Microsoft, oh it is like your best enemy. So my point is that you will hear it (except spying) if it is a legal request.
Also thought this. Title is ambiguous (albeit unintentional I'm sure).
> metadata driven drone strikes

How many of these have there been?
Well, not exactly. Whatsapp has been sold for $19B, this is a _valuation_ of $40B. I think selling something for $19B is bigger than being valued at $40B and getting $1.2B in funding.

Huge numbers though, I can't realistically appreciate these amounts.
> I felt like in the beginning I could rely on Docker being focused on containers

This whole "wheres docker going" thing is getting blown way out of proportion. Docker Swarm was built by ONLY 2 people on the docker team (https://github.com/docker/swarm/) and they are totally separate binaries. Thats like saying I cant use Google X anymore because Google is building Google Y...

Some of these considerations are valid (vendor lockin, etc), but they've been valid for a long time. Nothing changed today or the day rocket was launched.

Disclaimer: I like docker but I have no horse in this race, my only affiliation is using docker.
I never understood and still don't understand this partnership.

So B&N has retail stores and Nook. Nook pre-Microsoft was Android based. They already had a Nook app coming out for Windows 8/RT. So when Microsoft invested a ton of money what was the ROI? Were they hoping to ship Nook devices with Windows RT on it? Or was there some other end-game?

300m is a lot of money and I don't understand what the pay off was even meant to be here.
It'a actually a little complicated but if you're interested in the details check out this stack overflow thread [1]. High level summary is that lapply() and functions built on top of it do some work in native C and so are generally faster but not all of the *apply() functions are faster.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2275896/is-rs-apply-famil...
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A lot of confusion about why this is going on. My take as a very interested user who has been actively tracking down info about this Node's next release and possible fork for some time is this:

Node.js's last supported release uses such an old version of Google's V8 that this V8 version is itself no longer supported. This, in my opinion, is just not good enough. In my personal experience, when a release cycle gets that fucked up there's a reason.

Joyent hasn't shared what the reason actually is for the delay, but so many of the top contributors think they can do better with a fork, and I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The plan is to do weekly releases, semver, to keep absolutely up to date with Google V8, and incidentally to not let just one interested party dictate their future directions.

It's a good plan and if they follow through, I'm definitely on board.
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> The drivers pay for the phones now

depends on the market. here in são paulo, drivers told me that they gave them phones + gave them a "working rate" (as in, as long as you are online and working you will get a per-hour-rate even if you don't get any passengers).
The Carmageddon 1 code to enable cheats was MUCH more offensive - IBETYOUCANTPRINTCUNT - because of course back then cheat codes were mostly printed in magazines.

I remember seeing that in a gaming mag, but it was C--T at the end, with a little note saying "we're sure you can figure out the missing letters"
Yes, but so what? Would you prefer everyone had to pay for their services, meaning

a) You need a credit card, excluding large chunks of the world population that doesn't have one

b) Google/FB learn your real identity via the payment networks, verified to banking level

I get that advertising is annoying. Regardless, painting it as some kind of scary privacy problem doesn't make sense and worse, muddies the water. People end up dumping tech companies into the same boat as governments even though they have hardly anything in common.
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Each of those string literals has a purpose. There may be more than one way to create a string depending on what exactly you MEAN by a "string", and what the constraints of the code are.
Try reading my posts instead of making up things to pretend they say. All I said is "consuming sugar raises your blood sugar". This is not controversial, and just because the advice is given to diabetics, does not mean it doesn't apply to everyone else.
I read that as saying that they work for a company that works with Amazon. Admittedly "the cloud company" is ambiguous, but I'd identify those three words with Amazon, not Google.
None of these have any similarity to brainteasers. In fact, these are all excellent subjects on their own that could be tested directly. For example:

"Give me an overview of a numerical method used to solve differential equations."

The more time you spend asking brainteasers, the less time you have to devote to your actual skills of interest. You may even find that quizzing someone on mathematics may help refresh and solidify your own understanding.
It's when you (for example) sweep a beam across a field. The spot of light can move really quickly, even crossing the field faster than light itself could, but it's not conveying information from where it's been to where it's going. Nothing physical is moving at anything even approaching the speed of light.
Yeah, as does mine. I agree that it's likely the case that most middle aged mothers living in suburbia aren't too familiar with it.
Ask HN: Thoughts on EzeeLogin?
Does anyone have experience with this Ezeelogin?

http://www.ezeelogin.com/

It seems like a scary idea having all your SSH keys/Passwords in one location.

What are the major security risks with this? It seems like they spend time addressing a number of security concerns to mitigate the risk - did they leave something out?
Nobody knows of course, but more than one for sure. The key words to use are "signature strike":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/signature-s...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secre...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-gr...
This is a great question, we're facing the same issue.
May have been primed by the misleading title, but I also misread the post date as December 2004...
Single tier - $3 a month or $29 a year
Yet it does make sense to stop arresting people for recreational use of one of the most benign drugs we know of. Marijuana does not wreck homes, it does not kill people, and it does not cause societal problems. It is easy to use responsibly and does little more than make you feel a bit giddy. If you disagree with that then I daresay you haven't ever tried it.
"Fly safe!"
I can confirm that with a couple dozen n=1 anecdotes. I used to have a mirror on my monitor so I could see people coming up behind me. That calmed the lizard brain down a bit, but I was still distracted every time somebody walked behind me. I've known dozens of programmers who also hate having their back exposed because it's a distraction.
Too perfect, DNS failure when loading the article about protecting against DNS failure: http://i.imgur.com/mFhGIPt.png
I always thought Uber avoided such a clause now and would continue to do so in the future, regardless of monopoly status, because their contractors being reclassified as employees would be disastrous to their business model.
I've looked at a bunch of these photo viewer libraries and this is the first one I've come across that seems to handle the pinch zoom on mobile really well. Very cool!
> that doesn't seem very true, either

Strictly, it isn't. The point isn't that there's no syntax, though; it's that there's very little syntax, compared to other languages (consider C++'s… what, 17 operator precedence levels? And the Turing-complete parser?).

The comma in ',var' and '((x 7))' are examples of Common Lisp's built-in syntax. The former is part of a shorthand notation[1] for injecting literal code into templates. The latter is part of the syntax of LET[2].

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_df....

[2] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_aba...
which Nazi?
Sorry if this is detailed somewhere on the site... but does it run from the mainline Linux kernel? Or do you need additional patches and/or binary blobs?
Who cares if Netflix only supports their own content on Open Connect appliances? They were offering to provide them to ISPs FREE OF CHARGE to alleviate the "complaints" Verizon et. al had, when they were deliberately throttling Netflix content. Refusing this solution and demanding payment (so these ISPs would double-dip on profits for this content, no less) is extortion in my book.

Netflix is a for-profit company and has no moral requirements to support competitor's platforms with their caching appliances.

PS - Cut the condescending bullshit, it provides nothing meaningful to the conversation and just paints you as a douche hat.
Disagree with almost everything you've written. It's a winner-take-most/all, trillion plus dollar market. Investors getting in at $40b, besides having little downside due to preferences, will almost certainly make a reasonable return. Uber is already on track for $1b in revenue and continues to grow very rapidly. Governments have in fact shown no ability to stop Uber (only a very few instances in the entire world). Peter Thiel would argue (effectively, imo) that monopolies are important in driving innovation.
> Those are pretty strong words
> joining in the hatred hive mind fostered by the media?

Pretty strong words on your part as well, but whatever, I'll answer. No, I decided a while back that if I ever need a ride, it won't be in an Uber car. This decision was based not only on what's in the regular media, but from reading personal experiences of riders and drivers in forums like this and larger media like Facebook and Twitter. I've read a few good, positive things about Uber in the past few years, but as a whole I consider them to be hostile and extremely slimy.

Simply put, I formed an opinion, as is my right, and it's a strong opinion so I use strong words to convey it.
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I'm actually more interested in places that have not legalized recreational use but have legalized medicinal use. One could make an argument that asking a medical marijuana user to not take their medicine would be illegal. An employer can't ask a diabetic to not use their insulin.
It's very important to control for every variable.

It's not, actually. Say you have 10,000 listeners and you randomly assign each one to 16-bit vs 24-bit listening. You have enough listeners that any differences between the groups are due to chance and will very close to even out. Now, if you find people are unable to distinguish between 16-bit and 24-bit you might want to try the test again with more control over the environment, but if you find a substantial difference in a large blind randomized test that's a real finding.
The idea is that you build the image and push it to a registry. The service hosts then only pull the layers they don't already have.

In practice, running a private registry is a pain (last I checked the official Docker image for it crashed on startup). I like what Rocket is doing here with filesets and plain old URLs.
Beyond income even, if you can't find a site on Google, it may as well not even exist. Regulators in China and the EU are so focused on censoring search results, because they know it's the most efficient way to control information.
Uber's "ridesharing" service, UberX, is and will continue to be, its biggest business.
Opening an article these days with:

> Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year?

is just take advantage of a difficult moment and increase the `hate`.

I don't get why this could happen on magazine like Wired...

Reading comments on the article seems that statement is pretty unfair.

I didn't check myself because I think reading those informations is bad as the hack itself, however the author who did that can also feel free to judge others.
And others can't get VC cash, why?
It makes a huge difference whether you're renting the medallion or paying for a loan for it - only the person in the latter case will ultimately be able to sell the medallion back once they're done with it.

The medallions are a perfect commodity and there's very little risk, and there are banks that specialize in loans for tax medallions, so the interest rates you can get for them is extremely low. Historically you'll very probably make more back on it than you ever paid for it.
> This is a reminder of the danger of trusting our data to 3rd parties and who actually is in control of it.

Not really. It's a reminder that you should keep backups and test them. If your only copy is in gmail, you don't have a backup.
I think you're worrying far too much about valuations at various rounds. Personally, I have no idea if Uber is worth $40bn. It just doesn't matter. When Uber IPOs, what "pop" do you expect if their market cap is $20bn instead of $40?
Yes, personally I wouldn't go that far - but at the same I would never use Uber as management do, at the least, sound like jerks. I think this is an entirely reasonable position drawn on evidence presented across multiple media reports about Uber's behaviour, and quotes from management.
Uber seems a lot more like the next Netscape. Super-fast growth, media darling, natural monopoly, took lots of capital, ultra-hyped valuation, arrogant, and threatening to a lot of powerful people.

Google, if you remember its growth period, basically came out of nowhere. It was beloved by users and adoption grew rapidly, but they didn't start getting serious publicity (nor did they seek it) until around 2004. They, AFAICT, took only one round of funding, $25M in 2000, before attaining profitability sometime in 2002. And they worked very hard to seem non-threatening until they were big enough to actually be a threat: remember "we do only one thing and one thing well - Search", "Don't be evil", their cordial relationship with Apple, the explicit decision not to challenge Microsoft, and how they only took advantage of companies that were going out of business anyway?
Docker push/pull only do the layers that arent already available. What we did was create a base image that has docker + our main base image (ubuntu + the packages we want) and then we ship builds on top of the base image which won't be pulled down again. Code builds are like 30mb shipped (pretty much just the code). Note you need your own registry for this.

Also familiarity with how union FSes work and using 'docker history' to trim container size makes it a lot easier.
I might be thick, but what's a valid use case for this? Tree-based navigation? (e.g. admin section in web-application to browse a 'file system')
Guile and its entire library ecosystem is GPL infected. I'd choose to pay the Chez scheme guy before having to worry about copyleft implications.
It's more than annoying. It is a privacy problem. I would prefer people run their own services, decentralised. The tech companies are useful idiots.
When you make something like that, a framework or a small service that you want to sell, how do you get the word out to potential customers? Do you pay for some advertising? Do you rely on SEO?
This is where things get tricky.
I don't think it's crazy. I think it's cool and your points completely valid.

A good question we have to ask is how do we get from where we are, to the desired end state that you describe? There's nothing stopping it from happening, it's a fork away with a good chance of upstream contribution.

Today that's through proposals and discussions in freely available on github, irc, and mailing lists for the docker project and which we call fire hose of information symbolically.

Maybe we're missing an additional avenue for input and creativity. What do you think?
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It could easily be profitable tomorrow if it scaled back growth. Gross revenue run rate is around $10b and net revenue $2b. And growing very rapidly. Riders pay for their rides so I have no idea what your VC reference means.
So how exactly are we meant to "fight for it" in a world where everything we own will be soon talking to each other? Is Assange arguing for stasis? What is his vision for a commercial internet? The holocene is over Mendax. The internet has gotten too complex to speak about in the language of 1995 cyber-utopians. I can't see how privacy will be an add-on in the next few years. I wish I could, but it would be foolishly naive.

You may say "well what about more transparency from government?". 2 years we were more or less being told everything is rosy by government: then PRISM leaks. You may fight for transparency, but it is not within citizens "best interests" to know what's going on. ∞
There's some good method names in https://github.com/jeff-1amstudios/carmageddon1-symbol-dump/... - my favourite being CalcOpponentConspicuousnessWithAViewToCheatingLikeFuck
>attempting to appeal to pure functional programmers in their academic ivory towers

That's not where we live.
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The language might experience the 'peak R' point right now.

'Badass' statistic packages but R always felt a bit 'hacked together'. With Julia on the other hand, I get the impression that there are developers in charge which have a deep understanding about programming languages and computer science. It's (too) early times for Julia but I wouldn't be surprised if in two years many users will (partly) switch.
I think running a private registry server already fixes that.

You can build your docker image, push it to your registry, and all the production machines will only have to pull the new layers.
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William Dunham's "Journey Through Genius" is a fantastic book. It is one of the best pieces of expository writing on mathematics that I have ever read. Almost anybody can pick it up, it reads like a novel; it dives directly into some very germane case studies of classical analysis, and then interweaves them into a brilliant narrative. It begins very simply, starting with Newton, but very quickly progresses to more recent (and more fascinating) chapters.

Having this book on your shelf so that you can pick it up when curiosity strikes, or when you find yourself at a creative dead-end, would be an excellent way to complement the study of a traditional text on real analysis (Dunham's book has no exercises, or even definitions and theorems in the style of a traditional math book).