skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LISP machines failed for a number of reasons, only some of which are LISP-related.

The Symbolics refrigerator-sized LISP machine was one of the most expensive single-user machines ever built. It was designed as the ultimate hacker toy, with a MIT Space Cadet keyboard.[1] Price/performance wasn't that great. Reliability was poor. Service was awful, because it needed on-site servicing and Symbolics didn't have enough local offices. The original garbage collector could take hours, because the virtual memory and the garbage collector did not play well together.
Symbolics as a company was quite arrogant. They had the attitude "We are the one gateway to AI".

Soon, LISP compilers for UNIX workstations were written, and Symbolics lost their exclusivity. Later Symbolics products were better, but unnecessary. Around that time, the expert systems bubble deflated. So did the LISP industry.

(I once did a lot of work in LISP, but mostly on Franz LISP on Sun workstations. I used an early Symbolics refrigerator briefly. Cool, but inefficient.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#mediaviewe...
How the Anthem Breach Could Have Happened
"Special snowflake" actually describes quite well stories like the OP which totally are not representative of how the world actually works for 99% out there. Most people have to work very hard much of the time and as a general rule it pays off. [1] Nobody that you have ever read about and for that matter all the people that I have ever met that nobody has ever read about have gotten there working a short schedule. Exceptions? Sure. This nonsense has to end. Unless someone has for some reason hit the tech startup lottery, work hard, as much as you can. You won't always (when you are older) be able to do so.

By the I knew Arrington (mentioned in the article) prior to Tech Crunch. He worked very hard to try and convince me to join Pool.com writing multiple times and not taking no for an answer. Back and forth, negotiating all of that. And I'm glad he did because after agreeing to get involved we made a ton of money from that service for years. I owe that all to the effort that Mike put in and was able to do so because of the hours that he worked (as well as the hours that I worked which was "all the time".)

[1] The problem is people don't realize that some people can work all the time, actually enjoy it and not be stressed. Just like some people can exercise or can climb mountains or swim fast or practice piano or anything else. Just because it burns one person out to work 7 days don't assume that it burns everyone else out to do the same. If you are exceeding your limitations and can't take it don't assume that everyone feels the same way (although they might..)
I agree completely, but I also think that it's always worth asking exactly what power structures the "principles" organizations espouse actually support.
>> huge foreign demand with very little new housing supply has made anything remotely close absurdly expensive

I think this accurately describes NYC too at this point...
It's been a while since I've done an integration with fraud prevention systems, but the credit bureaus do offer functionality like this - for instance, they can give you a red flag back if an address has been used by a number of different identities within a certain time period. This is important because often times a scam artist will have a drop that's been working well for them and they will use it for multiple scams simultaneously.
Oddly enough, fonts in particular have extreme benefits to open source models of development, the influence of actual research can be applied outright, and open fonts can be deployed rapidly.

I can't imagine a worse battleground to stake your argument on than this one, other than servers.
I could care less what the super rich do with their money. What bugs me is they are hoarding limited resource (housing) in an already impacted area and everyone else ends up suffering for it.
I find this the weakest theory. Nobody would have forced him to participate in the Manhattan project.
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We're at MVP, have >20 customers, growing weekly, and are actively engaged with multiple investors. Our 6 month development roadmap is planned.

I'm Lee, the founder of Gingr and the technical person on the product. Currently, I'm the sole developer on the project. We use PHP, Bootstrap 3, jQuery and some React.js (lots more coming this year).

We're looking for a general LAMP developer who feels comfortable taking on a project, talking through a reasonable time estimate for a project, working together on the design, and delivering a quality feature on time. Other than that, we're flexible.

This job will have a start date of mid-March, pending closing of the funding round.

If you'd like to chat, shoot me an email to lee at gingrapp dot com.
>I doubt Bitcoin’s first-mover advantage will translate into long-term success. Webvan pioneered grocery delivery during the dot-com bubble but ultimately went bankrupt.

It's worth noting that open-source platforms typically succeed due to the first-mover advantage, whereas companies may not. Further, because blockchains work, there is always an incentive for miners to join the longest chain (ergo Bitcoin)
Manhattan, at least, hasn't really had an increase in housing supply. The population is actually lower today than it was in the post-WW2 era (down ~20%, from just under 2 million then, to around 1.6 million today). Some of that is because of changing demographics (e.g. apartments that once held 4-person families now holding a 2-person couple), but the housing-supply constraint has been a pretty hard cap on population. There has been a lot of construction, but it's gone into mainly: 1) expanding commercial real-estate; and 2) replacing older, smaller residential units with newer, bigger ones. Redevelopment of the 2nd variety sometimes even reduces the number of housing units (but each unit is nicer).
Way too negative. Austin is a great city in many ways, and a better place to build some kinds of businesses than the big cities you mention. I don't know about your claim on how tech billionaires think - from your first post, it's safe to conclude you're not a tech billionaire so this is likely just your conjecture. I can tell you for a fact that some people have become tech billionaires in Austin. Michael Dell for instance.
Could you stop downvoting michaelochurch all the time? Several responses who agree with him are in the plus, this comment is <= -2. It's ridiculous.
IF you have $50 million in cash to spend on a piece of property, you are laundering the money. There's no other explanation.
The strange thing is they seemed to have had a bit of cognitive dissonance from the outset. They wanted to support Java and JavaScript, but the semantics of their Java and JavaScript basically made them different syntaxes for C#. On the other hand, they've put a lot of effort into support tail calls. On the third, it's only really used by F#, which is .NET specific. :(
I certainly agree with the author's conclusions. Frankly, I think the discussion on Anthropogenicity of Global warming is irrelevant.

We are in an era, aptly called the Anthropocene, where Humans, while spreading like cancer, are basically taking crucial breathing space away from our co-habitants.

I wish there were some sort of joint efforts underway to curb populations, in countries like India, and at the same time curb consumption in the Western world.

Sadly, the debates are all extremely partisan, and play by old - petty- rules of geopolitics.
For those of you who don't know, the author of that paper came up with the concept of the Arpanet and made it happen.
Yet another RMS power-trip, I guess...
Absolutely right. When I think success, I think Michael Dell.
Sure, you can almost always ask (everywhere you read they will tell you it's completely safe though it depends on industry, I guess, I have seen offers rescinded over mere asking) however if you are not prepared to walk away there is little incentive to offer what you are asking.

An agent who maintains long relationship with you might actually be ready to negotiate on your behalf since it will both strengthen your relationship and bring quite a lot of money in the future as it increases your base price in all the future negotiations. Third party recruiter placing FTEs, on the other hand, has much to lose by walking away and very little to gain.
GnuPG Far Exceeded 2015 Funding Goal
From GnuPG Home page:

A big Thanks to all supporters

Due to this ProPublica article we received more than 120,000 € of individual donations on a single day. There is even more: The Core Infrastructure Initiative granted 60,000 $ for 2015. Our payment service Stripe and Facebook will each give 50,000 $ to the project. And finally the Wau Holland Stiftung is collecting tax deductible funds for GnuPG (7000 € in December; numbers for January will be posted soon).

As the main author of GnuPG, I like to thank everyone for supporting the project, be it small or large individual donations, helping users, providing corporate sponsorship, working on the software, and for all the encouraging words.

GnuPG does not stand alone: there are many other projects, often unknown to most people, which are essential to keep the free Internet running. Many of them are run by volunteers who spend a lot of unpaid time on them. They need our support as well.

— Werner, 2015-02-06
"No processor, no matter how good, and no matter how iron-clad their policies may seem, will take 100% liability for scammers. Yes, even PayPal, with their “100% guarantee against fraud.” This is the reality. There’s a lot of fine print for them to hide behind."

My experience having a merchant account that accepted credit cards was that payment processors accept absolutely NO liability. The merchant pays 2-3% (more for AMEX) and is usually on the hook for 100% of the fraud.
A friendly reminder that correlation does not imply causation. There is no contradiction between this result being real, and meditation being absolutely worthless at preventing loss of grey matter.

This is a small sample, and it's just as plausible that (I'm making this up) vegetarians are more likely to meditate, and a vegetarian diet correlates with more grey matter.

If this is a significant result, the takeaway isn't that "I should meditate to keep my grey matter", but rather "I should be the kind of person that would have meditated in this study if I want to keep my grey matter".
I love FP, but in order to learn to love it you have to get used to the idea that the language is going to be doing a few things that you might not like (collecting garbage, silently boxing things, not knowing how to convince the system to use the vector operations provided in hardware). With Fortran/C, it's easy to see how assembly language gets produced. I like Haskell a lot, but while I know how C(++) gets to the iron I'm pretty vague on how Haskell does it. FP can still win, or approach parity, but it costs some trust
Anyone know of a CLI client for Microsoft lync?
This is more of a Tool Assisted Speedrun (TAS) than a cheat bot. I haven't read through the entire article, but it seems he's not using intended helpers, but rather exploits glitches. Not saying that this is any less of an achievement, though.

Obligatory Awesome Games Done Quick reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWa5GPb9fw8 ("AGDQ 2015 TASbot taking over Pokemon Red, and MORE", 9Min, SFW)
More bitcoin is exchanged for contraband than ever before right now. Current dark market sales figures dwarf that of SilkRoad 1.
Could not create a new story linking to GnuPG's home page: https://gnupg.org/

Julian Angwin's ProPublica article that helped spark the donations: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...
Docker Images for Machine Learning
The situation in London is very tragic. I think it will stop to function very soon.
Ettore Majorana, his mystery, his particle
This has the potential to be some day disruptive to Twilio, Plivo, etc.
I sincerely hope you never need us to defend you. But we would, because Americans roll like that.
Agreed. "all the time" - is there a history behind that?
"It was first released on December 10, 1993, when a shareware copy was uploaded to an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin."

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm sure they published it later via a variety of publishers, but they made a ton off of the shareware version. Masters of Doom is a fantastic read, if you haven't read it.
Yeah, but negative vote is a perfect example of how stupid this community has become. Not even able to digest even the slightest counter-thinking, and the recoil is never short of abusive.

Look at the moron below who calls "up on toes" as corporate slang. NO. It's not a corporate slang, rather a pursuit of a start_up to beat the rest.

Hopeless! This site used to be quality. Now it's full of sheep with one-track mind. My last note here. Go ahead vote it down, enjoy your dumb echo-chamber and live through your satisfaction.

Bye.
Tangential to his point, but N-Body simulations like this are almost a perfect fit for GPU computation. The power of modern GPU's is astonishing. It's probable that he could get his "about a day" calculations down to a few minutes, or alternatively, keep the runtime the same and dramatically improve the accuracy or length of simulation.

Here's a couple of recent papers:

Using Graphics Processing Units to solve the classical N-body problem in physics and astrophysics
http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5234

The GENGA Code: Gravitational Encounters in N-body simulations with GPU Acceleration
http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2324
Also, with pretty much everything in life, including software development, there IS a correlation between hours worked and quality/quantity.

Yes; there's one shaped a bit like a bell curve. Too many hours, and you start losing creativity, your focus becomes too short-term, and you start missing things, making expensive mistakes.

Coding when tired is usually net negative, unless it's something throwaway for a demo due at short notice, or it's something you've done a dozen times before and don't need to think about. All too often, you overpay later fixing bugs and refactoring design mishaps.

I think there's a bit of a fallacy behind your assertions. Whether you're present at work for 30 hours or 40 hours doesn't make a massive difference to a job as intellectual as software development. Your brain doesn't completely shut off work when you go home. Much of the thinking time that you'd spend at work in 40 hours a week will happen at home when working 30 hours. Manual labour, and famously, showers, are conducive to this thinking.

I find I'm both more motivated and create better software if I stop working in the middle of something, before I've gotten too tired, and come back to it the next morning. I don't know my optimum number of hours that need to be spent at a desk in front of a PC to maximize my productivity. It's almost certainly less than 40.
## Why did you make this?

Why not?

Regardless of the actual repository (though don't get me wrong, this is still super cool and I like seeing AppleScript in action since I feel like it's criminally underused), this kind of thing in a Readme always brings a grin to my face. Tinkering for tinkering's sake is the best.
Thanks! I grew up with Scheme, but set lisp aside for years until Clojure came along to reboot my interest.
I'm just astounded that these folks treat people with such contempt, given that it reflects poorly on them and the business they're associated with

They'll stop doing it, when candidates stop beating down their door to get in. That I suspect if what's really behind self-driving cars and the like. No-one would put up with being dicked around by their recruiters if they knew that 99% of Google staff working on displaying, billing for, and reporting on ads.
How to Write User Testing Tasks
I'd take Austin of SF and NYC any day. Nice hot weather, delicious brisket, people are actually nice...
One of the most effective ways to improve your eCommerce site is with user testing. It is one of the best ways to identify A/B testing ideas and improve your conversion rates.

The key to these tests come down to how well you write your user testing tasks.
Congress is a game, and we know what groups are winning
Why does the article blithely take it for granted that we should treat investments by rich foreigners suspiciously while investments by rich Americans are no problem? The big problem in New York real estate is lack of supply — the vacancy rate in rentals hovers around 1%, and building new apartments is a nightmare. So of course, prices go up as demand keeps growing and supply is prevented from growing.

There may be some extremely marginal contribution to housing costs that you can blame on these ultra-premium buildings, but it's not the root cause, and playing whack-a-mole with these symptoms is what got the city's real estate so expensive in the first place.

Do folks think that if One57 hadn't been built, a building full of $150k studios would have gone up in its place? Because of the difficulty and cost of building, these money towers are increasingly the only thing that developers can afford to build. Build something more palatable and you'd go out of business.

The backlash to these buyers is IMO a misguided blend of economic misunderstanding and xenophobia. Something tells me that if the rich buyers were all from Colorado, people wouldn't have quite so much to say about it.
How about the Bitcharge use case: http://cointelegraph.com/news/113255/keeping-score-at-the-20... (See "The Solution")
I think you're confusing intrinsic and extrinsic motivations with willingness to work hard. You're ascribing a behaviour to a character trait or ability (a "type of person") that is IMO usually due to work circumstances (i.e. a situation that person finds themselves in, and well placed to exploit with the resources they have).

Working 7 days on extrinsic motivations is soul destroying.

Doing the same on intrinsic motivations is life affirming.

There's also different types of work. Manual labour can be done for long hours - if you're young. Mentally intensive work can be done briefly for long hours, but it rapidly stops working well. If you work is more about connecting people and motivating them, I think it's a bit more scalable, especially if you can feed from the
emotional energy of interaction.
Automate your style
Did Google Glass fail because of privacy concerns and marketing problems?
:( I know a lot of non-programmer managers who act nothing like that.
Vim as IDE
That's true, but it says nothing about how difficult it would be to replace.
I have discernment and insight into spirit world. We could destroy religion
My short bio: I am 27. No proof besides my word and doctor's diagnoses. I do have a website though, see below.
I have had contact with the spirits of Jehovah, Allah, Pistis Sophia (see gnostic myths and metahistory.org), the devi of the biblel, etc. I am trying to get rid of them to no avail. They are like lying computers. Jesus made many of them up in his head.
My Proof: http://alanrhoffman.com
Pretty simple: if a developer can be 10x-100x as productive than the average developer, you don't really worry about only getting 80% of their required time.

So if this perk gets Treehouse talent that is +30% more productive, even if they lose -20% of productivity from Fridays off, they still win.

One caveat, so much of programming is loading things into your head, I think three days off every week would be difficult for anything sophisticated being developed.
Thinking about buying this book: The Phoenix Project. Would you recommend it?
You can see for yourself. click on his profile and look at his comment history.
Do you have any idea what be involved in that replacement?
Leftover predator behavior where a cat will attempt to camouflage themselves by picking a resting place that's already visually distinct from the background field.
In my work (legal) i often find myself overdressed and overstressed about decorum and timetables. But corporate decorum, working 9-5 m-f, has a place.

I remember one incident where a thursday meeting at a startup was canceled because a department head wanted to turn an already long weekend into a 4day holiday. I put my foot down. Fridays are not weekends. If they are, then thursdays become fridays and you'll start skipping them too. That meeting consisted of me in a suit, in an empty office, talking to two people via skype. I call that a victory because the meeting at least happened. (The truth is that all the low level employees on the first floor were there and working. They cannot afford to skip out on work.)

Casual is all well and good until it creates unpredictability and disorder. Contrary to popular myth, things actually get done in meetings. Not every decision can be made while scaling the in-office climbing wall. Some decisions require people sitting down at a table to hammer through a series of points.

Does that thing that happened last night on the server qualify as a breech? I don't care that tomorrow is a friday. Neither will your backers, nor the FBI, when they haul you in to explain why you couldn't be bothered to take a decision until after your ski weekend.
I don't see Apple being happy with that
This is a nice way for Treehouse to differentiate itself for talent but this is blown out of proportion like Tim Ferris's 4 Hour Work Week.

Employee culture is important but to be honest I only care about how well the founders are executing their original vision then all the yoga classes, free food, Friday's off, beer pong, maid service and other things companies are offering.

32 hours a week is nice for some but that doesn't always equate to marketplace monopolization.

Then again since Treehouse is competing with others this may not be their goal anyways.
I'm sure these "requirements" are tenuously followed at best. Why have someone around in your business who won't do any kind of useful work?
I'm not sure if it's due to increased self-awareness, or whether it's physically due to aging, but I know for a fact that pushing over 50 hours a week will quickly lead to lower overall productivity for me. I love what I do and I used to work insane startup-level hours, but on reflection a lot of those hours are less efficient, whether due to decreased efficiency or downright procrastination when I'm too tired to deal with a difficult problem.

To some extent I think tech startup culture evolved this way not just because it takes a superhuman effort to build a successful company, but also because learning to be a good programmer is something that is extremely difficult if you're not at least a little obsessed with it. My tendency to work 80 hours a week at my startup is the natural evolution of my 14-year-old self wanting to spend all my time working on the computer.

But now that I have a couple decades experience under my belt, I can sit down and focus for 8 hours that will lead to far more productivity than slogging through 16 hours. Furthermore, my subconscious is able to continue working on problems during my downtime, so stepping away, getting some exercise, cooking some healthy food, sleeping 9 hours all feed back to greater overall productivity.