Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC
Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20554 July 14, 2014 Re: Open Internet Remand, GN Docket 14-28 Dear Chairman Wheeler and Commissioners Clyburn,...
Hasnain says:
"Mr. Chairman, you say you oppose a two-tier Internet and want to preserve Internet openness, so let’s reclassify broadband as the public utility we know it to be. Ensure that the Internet thrives as a platform for free commerce and speech for generations to come. May the United States of America continue to lead in innovating on the greatest free market the world has ever seen."
Posted on 2014-07-15T19:31:32+0000
cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
ToolsOfTheTrade - Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
Hasnain says:
This is an awesome list of tools for a range of uses.
Posted on 2014-07-15T19:30:00+0000
Calkin-Wilf for Early(-ish) Haskellers · tel.github.io
This post was inspired by a Hacker News comment of mine. I presented what follows somewhat poorly there, so I hope my expansion below clarifies the idea.
Hasnain says:
Amazing read on functional programming, the rationals, and correctness preserving transformations.
Posted on 2014-07-13T22:24:25+0000
Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed
Is resistance to Amazon futile in the book publishing world? Its battle with Hachette has many on edge.
Hasnain says:
"“Publishing is a shyster business,” he reflected. “One day it’s ‘You rock, bro,’ and the next day they’re not returning your calls. If I’m not moving books on Amazon, they’re not going to ask me back. It’s not a charity.”"
Posted on 2014-07-13T22:21:48+0000
Rust for functional programmers
This post follows up on OCaml for Haskellers from Edward Z. Yang (2010) and my own Haskell for OCaml programmers from earlier this year.
Hasnain says:
I hadn't thought about it this way, but the author argues that Rust is inherently closer to a functional language than an imperative one.
Posted on 2014-07-13T22:21:25+0000
How Fan Loyalty Changed During the World Cup
An analysis of Facebook activity reveals how fan support changed during the tournament.
Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away
Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. Astonishingly, the population is growing, house prices are rising and building goes on. The problem is the city is run by climate change deniers
Hasnain says:
"Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. Astonishingly, the population is growing, house prices are rising and building goes on. The problem is the city is run by climate change deniers"
Posted on 2014-07-13T06:32:06+0000
How Private Colleges Are Like Cheap Sushi
Fifty percent off? That doesn't sound like such a good deal for sushi or a college degree. We ask some economists: Why not?
Hasnain says:
"Unfortunately, there's a real world impact here. In recent years there's been a lot of attention to the issue of undermatching. This is the finding that a majority of highest-achieving but low-income students fail to apply to a single competitive college. Even when financial need means that they would pay little or nothing to attend a school like Harvard or Stanford, these students are instead choosing non-selective schools that tend to have a lower advertised price."
Posted on 2014-07-13T06:05:24+0000
Levittown: The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs | US History Scene
Although 1950s suburbia conjures visions of traditional family life, the story of the suburbization of America is also one of exclusion, segregation &
Hasnain says:
"Levittown itself arguably embodied the best and worst of the postwar American story; it was a result of the entrepreneurship and ingenuity that has come to define the American spirit, but it also participated in the violent prejudice that has also been part of American history."
Posted on 2014-07-13T05:21:18+0000
static single assignment for functional programmers -- wingolog
By that I mean that lambda is my tribe. And you know how tribalism works: when two tribes meet, it's usually to argue and not to communicate.
Hasnain says:
"the machine tribe in two sentences
In the beginning was the
Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
This is a really interesting read on compilation and intermediate languages (CPS, SSA, ANF, etc)
Posted on 2014-07-12T05:56:24+0000