skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So shut up and go home? Is there any viable way to peaceably go about one's business privately and anonymously? Can I bet at least a $1 that no one knows who I am here?
I've been thinking hard about this lately, and the first question for me is "What would a 21st Century Lisp Machine mean?"

Lisp Machines were created in part due to the desire to get the most performance possible back in the days when CPUs were made out of discrete low and medium scale integration TTL (there were also ECL hot-rods, but their much greater costs across the board starting with design limited them to proven concepts, like mainframes of proven value, supercomputers, and the Xerox Dorado, after the Alto etc. had proven the worth of the concept).

Everyone was limited: maximum logic speeds were pretty low, you could try to avoid using microcoded synchronous designs, but e.g. Honeywell proved that to be a terrible idea, as noted elsewhere memory was very dear. E.g. the Lisp Machine was conceived not long after Intel shipped the first generally available DRAM chip, a whopping 1,024 bits (which was used along with the first model of the PDP-11 to provide graphics terminals to the MIT-AI PDP-10), etc. etc.

So there was a lot to be said for making a custom TTL CPU optimized for Lisp. And only that, initially: to provide some perspective, the three major improvements of LMI's LAMBDA CPU over the CADR were using Fairchild's FAST family of high speed TTL, stealing one bit from the 8 bits dedicated to tags to double the address space (no doubt a hack enabled by it having a 2 space copying GC), and adding a neat TRW 16 bit integer multiply chip.

The game radically changed when you could fit all of a CPU on a single silicon die. And for a whole bunch of well discussed reasons, to which I would add Symbolics being very badly managed, and LMI killed off by dirty Canadian politics, there was no RISC based Lisp processor, Lisp Machines didn't make the transition to that era. And now CPUs are so fast, so wide, have so much cache ... e.g. more L3 cache than a Lisp Machine of old was likely to have in DRAM, the hardware case isn't compelling. Although I'm following the lowRISC project because they propose to add 2 tag bits to the RISC-V architecture.

So, we're really talking about software, and what was the Lisp Machine in that respect. Well, us partisans of it thought it was the highest leveraged software development platform in existence, akin to supercomputers for leveraging scientists (another field that's changed radically, in part due to technology, in part due to geopolitics changing for the better).

For now, I'll finish this overly long comment by asking if a modern, productive programmer could be so without using a web browser along with the stuff we think of as software development tools. I.e., what would/should the scope of a 21st Century Lisp Machine be?
We are using Grafana with OpenTSDB and loving it -- really looking forward to some of the 2.0 features and about to buy a bunch more TVs for big shiny Grafana dashboards in our NOC. Way to go guys!
Every time I see the phrase "make the world a better place", my brain automatically adds "for me" at the end of it. It tends to enhance the truth of the statement.
This is exactly what 1x non-participating liquidation preference is. The 1x is 1x of the invested amount, not a profit multiplier.
https://vcexperts.com/buzz_articles/185
Skype version 2.x.x through to version 5.x.x.x utilized
this technique - it's nothing new.
I applied for a Job at Orbitz yesterday and today this news came. Orbitz ratings are pretty solid on Glassdoor and that makes them one of the best companies to work for in the Chicagoland area, hope it remains the same after the merger.
I've always figured the URLS just fall off a queue, so there's no absolute period of time involved. No actual knowledge, just a guess.
> you might expect that all of the tech centres (smartish parents in forward-thinking industries) were above average

That might be a hypothesis worth exploring, but I think many people in tech overestimate both how well-informed and forward thinking they are and, even moreso, how well-informed and forward thinking the industry in general is outside of their own personal (or, in the latter case, the industry's defining) area of focus.
2015 World Press Freedom Index
Ignore the Hype: 5 Docker Misconceptions You Should Consider
There are already widespread programs where utilities pay customers a rebate in exchange for remotely turning off their A/C compressors at the peak of a heat wave in order to chop the top off consumption spikes. Paying high-consumption commercial customers to turn off entirely for a few hours to avoid spinning up another generation plant happens too.

It's not too far-fetched to imagine a rebate program on home battery systems if the utility got the same remote control power to disconnect homes from the grid when needed, or even have their batteries dump power back onto it at those times. Essentially, individual homes become part of "smart grid" management systems.
Seems odd to talk about "stationary batteries" as a separate product, as if a car weren't stationary most of its life. (but I suppose that changes in a future of sharing economies and self-driving cars)
The very fact that H.n.s. and H.s.s. could breed very likely means they weren't separate species anyway - and serves as a good case study for the troubles with the term "species".

As if that weren't enough, the same can also be said of Denisovans.

Another cool thing is gene testing companies (rarer these days), like 23andme, can give you an estimate of how much Neanderthal DNA you have, and it was how I learned that I have a little more H.n.s. DNA than was average by more than a standard deviation.
Wow, that looks awesome! I'm in Canada, and one of the worst things for me is having cold feet around the house. Happens no matter what I do. Heavy socks, slippers, doesn't matter. A Kotatsu looks like the perfect solution!
FUD? So you search for "twitter" and try the top five apps.

#1 is Twitter's official app. So they get a point for that.

#2 is Instagram. Close but no cigar.

#3 is TwiGrow which looks like some kind of scheme to get more followers.

#4 is Pic Jointer, an app to join photos together.

#5 is Happy Park, a theme park game.

It doesn't get any better after that. Waze, Flipboard, emoji keyboards. I don't know how far you have to get down the list to actually find another twitter client.
I hadn't looked much into Tox, but after seeing a few mentions on cyberpunk boards, and seeing how hard people are shilling against it, I think I'm going to take a closer look.
Forget carbon offsets/taxes – buy up all the coal
Is it possible for there to be any push back on this from electric utility providers?
You don't drop it. You grow up and make the best of what you have, until a new opportunity presents itself.
Persistence is the key. I once got a job, by applying to the opportunity every day for a month, and they finally called me and were impressed at my persistence.

My Advice to you is two pronged:
1. Stay in the market and looking (always, never stop. If you find an incredible opportunity take it)
2. Do your job, your mundane, boring (boo hoo) job, and then you do more.
Get yourself noticed by the other location. Get to know the management team at the other location, be it by email or phone calls. Offer to do stuff on your own time for them. Soon they will want you there. They will extend an offer to you. If you want it bad enough you will get it.

Welcome to the real world kid!
A Bug's Death (2003)
I know Aren from school, ad i am familiar with the multitude of problems he has solved at various companies. This should be a plug-and-play solution for others!
History says 12th February 2015 was officially the day HN turned into reddit. Never forget.
The cars are mostly stationary, but they're stationary in the wrong place during peak consumption hours: a workplace parking lot, not a garage connected to the grid.
The Plane-Builder of South Sudan
I usually don't drive very much but when I do it tends to be 6 or 7 hours (I drove for 9 hours yesterday) - so I'd actually be fine with a "normal" long distance car and a wee electric town car like the Renault Twizy - which is really cheap as well - but odd looking, but maybe that's the price of being revolutionary:

http://www.renault.co.uk/cars/electric-vehicles/twizy/twizy/
It's not such a big deal; in Hong Kong, for instance, all property (with very very few exceptions) is leasehold land. The most common term is now 75 years. The city has been in existence long enough that many of the original leases have come up for renewal at least once. In the vast majority of cases, the government signalled far in advance (10+ years) that: (a) it would renew the leases, and (b) the terms under which they would be renewed.

Yes, it is a different system than freehold property in Europe and America, but that doesn't make it unworkable.
Baseball Projections (Marcel) in Pure PostgreSQL
Freelancing and Premium Beef
I understand why Alan Kay said what he did, but a closer analogy would be to Euclid's Elements. If one follow's Lisps axioms, one ends up with Lispian Computation, elegant, clean, tail-call optimized.

Other axioms of computing lead the user in different directions, notably Hindley-Milner. Lisp carves territory in mathematical state space, not physical reality.
> Seems odd to talk about "stationary batteries" as a separate product

Why? The constraints (in terms of size, cooling, wiring, weight, temperature changes, …) are completely different. A stationary battery is a separate product, competing in a completely different class and with very different constraints.
It's more like http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/range...
Very creative, I like it.
I find it useful in the event of a power outage. Other than that, the article mentions "to eliminate their home electric bill", which doesn't make much sense since the battery needs to be charged from time to time anyway... Unless of course, the battery could be used to store the energy from a renewable resource, like solar or wind power, in which case it would be really interesting. From an economic viewpoint, though, the savings should surpass in a reasonable time, the costs of buying and installing the battery, and the source of power (i.e. solar cells), and depending on the country, taxes on that.
Functional Pearl 1 – The Min Missing Natural Number
I thought you'd say something like that. Have you counted how many brackets though? It's often very close.

(defn blub-extra [a b]
(blub (inc a) (inc b)))

8 parens + 2 brackets

def blubExtra(a: Int, b: Int): Int {
blub(inc(a), inc(b))
}

8 parens + 2 braces

Integer blubExtra(Integer a, Integer b) {
return blub(inc(a), inc(b));
}

8 parens + 2 braces

It's roughly the same numbers of brackets (or equivalent) in Clojure, Scala and Java. They're just in slightly different places.

(excuse syntax I've not written the last two for years)
But if the Tesla car battery can only handle 1000 charge/discharge cycles, how is a home battery viable? Wouldn't it only last for three years or so?

(Maybe I'm wrong about the number of cycles?)
Google's Philosopher
Experimental Game Turns Players into Poets and Writers
Different kinds of safety. I doubt the Belarus equivalent of the DMV performed crash testing of this vehicle. Pretty sure their inspection boils down to "does it make funny noises?", "does it smell bad?", and "do all the lights work?". That's certainly the case here in the US.

I am sure that in this particular instance, since it's been driving for so long chances are it's not going to randomly catch fire (though it certainly could), but yeah, if you are building your own vehicle, I doubt you'd be able to do better than a team of engineers who dedicated their careers to it. Remember, they still mess up routinely, and it causes many deaths.
Linear Regression Implementation in Python
We feel like we could be making more money. We also don't like that occasionally bits of user generated content make it out of our captive portal. We're very sorry about having to blah blah yawn ... Sorry, just got really bored in the middle of lying to you. Anyway there nothing you can do so deal with it.
Your assigning deaths caused by cars to bickes.

Your also assuming all trips are in mixed traffic.

And then without looking up any statistics you assume your correct.

...

I don't know where to begin.
Sorry for the slow response, it's been internet years 8-)

We have an update coming for User Modeling (to be announced soon). After that update, such a gibberish post will return an error.

User Modeling is based on word counting. Users should ensure that their input is actually from a human and intelligible. The service looks for certain words in the input, and will reject input that doesn't have enough of those words for the service to estimate characteristics. In the upcoming release, the documentation will explain how this works and what the relevant words are.

Also, we will provide a measurement of how accurate our results are based on the number of words that are in the input. This should allow users to understand the reliability of the results in the context of their application (e.g. a casual movie recommender app might be ok with very low confidence, while an application that makes more critical recommendations might require higher confidence).
Thanks and good continuation of the point.

I'm often the first to say "pay your dues" to complaining youngsters, but OP has done nothing wrong and instead seems to need some guidance on how to maximize the value of his/her days while working out of this unlucky decision.

All I would say is that it's important that OP does try to find another, more engaging job, either in that company or elsewhere. It would be a shame to develop a permanently half-assed work ethic at 21, especially when he/she seems to have the energy and moral fibre to work hard. Treat this as a short-term situation.
Why you should care about Software-Defined Radio
Is there a good practical resource for learning about applying formal proof systems like Coq or Spin, but for those without a CS background? I'm interested in provably correct systems, but a lot of the material seems to be heavy on the theoretical side. I guess you could say I'm searching for the Art of Electronics, but for formal proofs.
If all you rascals have any questions — feel free to ask. The "militaristic fervor" isn't quite yet in effect here this early in the morning...
I get at least 2 clicks on each campaigns
This potentially sounds like a good alternative to a diesel generator.
The Right Way to “Manipulate” Apple App Store Rankings
Lego Fluid Effect
I think it's crazy how badly we insulate our houses in Australia. I live in Brisbane, and many houses just aren't insulated at all, like old Queenslanders [1] that just let the wind blow through underneath the floorboards and in through cracks in the walls, and even new-builds hardly have any... You'd think it never gets cold here, but it really does for a couple of months at least... What you end up with is houses that cost craploads to heat or cool and just have generally terrible thermal performance.

Sydney and Melbourne (that have colder winters) aren't much better...

I hope to build a house eventually, and fully intend to pack it with insulation, air-seal it as much as possible, use all double-glazed windows, and then use an energy recovery ventilation system to stop condensation and mould problems and reduce the load on the heating/cooling system. From my research, it looks like even a small PV solar system on the roof should be enough to completely offset the heating and cooling costs and keep the entire building at a comfortable temperature.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_%28architecture%2...
Rarely used Leaflet features I wish I knew earlier
I don't understand why he has to tell the new company that he's employed, or tell his employer that he's interviewing, whichever is the concern.
This would be great for the situation were having in South Africa; were experiencing daily loadshedding at the moment as our only power utility basically, cannot meet demand.

The situation is set to continue for at least a year while the new coal power plant "Medupi" is being constructed - its more than 4 years behind schedule.

A battery that could be charged and then used to power your home during loadshedding could be a breakthrough solution as the costs for generators and solar are quite expensive. That being said not sure how much the Telsa "Home Battery" would be.

Any event, if its feasible it could really be a good solution. Im sure in the long run countries experiencing similar a situation could use this.
Although the funny thing is, as the 2nd oldest surviving computer language after FORTRAN, and at least back then used for very difficult problems, to be competitive let alone justifiable on extremely scarce and expensive hardware, "Lisp" has always been "obsessed" with performance. ADDED along with a bit before: It first ran on the IBM 704, a vacuum tube computer. It was derived from the IBM 701, which initially used Williams tubes for memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube).

Scare quotes because "anyone" can program up a Lisp "in a week". High performance LISPs not surprisingly require very roughly the same amount of effort as any other high performance language implementation. Lisp got its first compiler in 1962, 4 years after its launch (and it was the first self-hosting compiler, i.e. written in itself). As the inventor of garbage collection, it's long been a major driver of innovations in GC (although of course much less so now that Java etc. gave GCed languages mainstream cred).

But by and large, except for strictness of dynamic type checking (often a tunable variable), sacrificing correctness for speed has never been part of Lisp's DNA.
Damn. I just had to pay $80 to unlock a t-mobile hotspot I bought outright, because they claimed I needed to spend $100 on service before they'd unlock it. Wouldn't be so bad if I weren't job-hunting :/
Excellent points. Thanks.
What you described is the definition of machine learning. You still haven't told us what "this" really is.
Ofcom green-lights TV whitespace in the UK – Nominet builds flood sensor network
Doing arbitrage on the power network by storing energy during off-period, and releasing it during high-period is a relatively old concept (eg. [0]). What I don't see happening is the price of this battery going low enough to make this kind of arbitrage profitable in a reasonable amount of time. The article does not mention the cost aspect of such an investment.

Germany along with a few other EU countries are currently high on renewable energy. As far as I know the most profitable way to utilize electric solar panels is to sell excessive energy back to the grid, not store it in batteries.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
Cool, but opening it to January and seeing Reagan's name misspelled on the opening line was disappointing.
I didn't say anything that disagrees with that...I was simply trying to give an easy to understand example for how you justify to a computer that a function will always terminate from the perspective of someone who has never used Coq or another theorem prover.

In this context, it's isn't very illuminating to tell a non-Coq user that all Coq functions terminate; formulating your function definition into something that Coq will accept is the difficult part.
why would there be? priceline is already bigger than expedia.

source: know people who work at both places and internet. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3APCLN&ei=j8zcVNvlGo...

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AEXPE&ei=1czcVIimKr...

look at profits and market cap.
Think about some of the other things that happen in the bathroom, and ask yourself whether you'd want that air recirculating in your house.
I am not all that sure I want it IN my house, and the garage for many homes is in the house. Yeah I know, people garage their cars but this is wholly different. Maybe outside the back in a small enclosed space, similar to an AC unit

I will be curious as to regulations for ventilation, wiring, and similar, are.
What Valentine's Day Haters Can Teach Us About Sales
Even with a chimney, an open fireplace is very dangerous because open fireplaces do not burn hot enough to burn cleanly. True, wet coal (and wet wood) make things even worse, but an open open fireplace with bone dry coal (or wood) still doesn't burn cleanly. Burning anything plastic, rubber etc. is still dangerous, even if you don't smell anything.

Closed fireplaces are a bit better but still dangerous, although (as you note) more outside the house than inside. Wood or coal smoke is as dangerous as car exhaust fumes, or worse, in terms of particulate matter, although of course in most urban areas there is more particulate matter from cars than there is from burning wood or coal. But measured levels of particulate matters in rooms with fireplaces are as high as right next to highways, and often people spend more time in those rooms than they do next to highways.

Anyway, lots of people grew up in houses that were heated with coal or wood fires and only a small part of them got cancer from it, and as I mentioned I had one installed last year because as they say 'it's easy to live to 100: just give up everything that makes it worth to live to 100'. It's just that this is one of my pet peeves to bring up to people (not saying you are one of those) who think they're doing the environment a favor by not burning gas but by burning wood - because hey, wood is 'renewable', right? It's quite strange that so few people know about the health impacts of fireplaces, the scientific literature is crystal clear on it yet I know of very few places where residential burning of wood is subject to regulation, let alone prohibited.
Utilities should be happy about this. One of their biggest problems is uneven load on the grid - low at night, too high during a heatwave - and this has the potential to make that problem a lot easier.
Beyond that, you can opt into paying a real-time price for electricity (like the utility does) instead of a flat rate. You're at the mercy of the market but can save a significant amount if you voluntarily turn off high consumption devices during peak periods and schedule other loads for overnight or slack periods.

What really gets interesting are the times (especially during early summer mornings) where there's too much supply on the grid and the price drops into negative territory (i.e. they'll pay you to shed load off the network). That's when you need the storage system charging up as fast as it can. I've been working on a personal system that watches the price and other factors (weather forecasts, family schedule) and cycles the A/C as deep as possible during those times.

What might really suck though is if everyone has one of these in their homes, then the price advantage will go away. Not a bad problem to have, but it means we'll have to shift our supply to other places like personal solar panels (hmm, does Musk sell those?)
Bold move for them. It allows them to more tightly control the experience and probably generate a stronger internal business case for 3rd party use.

Similar to Netflix, a more closed approach will enable them to make changes to the API to tightly fit their partners and LinkedIn's desired use cases.
I had no idea that adjunct staff were paid so poorly compared to regular full time academic staff until I taught a class for one semester.

In my case it was in addition to my regular full time job so the money was not as important to me. But to imagine someone trying to make a living from that and considering the level of eduction required it just doesn't make sense to me.
Follow up with The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt.

Great alternative perspective.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925367.The_Climb
TL;DR: Create a great product AND find a way to get the word out. Hard to do both, trust me... I know.