skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top results from "Islam is *":

"Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life"

"Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs"

"Islam is violent"

"Islam is spreading among Thousands black South Africans"

"Islam is spreading across Europe among descendants of Muslim immigrants" (The preceding word is "Radical")

"Islam is intolerant, militant, supports terrorism" (This is from a site discussing contrasting viewpoints of Islam)

"Islam is your birthright"

"Islam is not a barrier to democracy as is often perceived by Western nations"
just being able to create and call lambdas is enough because you can count, branch, etc. Is that right?

♫ All you need is Lambdas ♫ :)
The LPS "MaxFelaser" laser," generates tunable, coherent, Ultra-high power radiation, while an MaxFelaser beam shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as coherent radiation, the operation of an MaxFelaser is quite different. Unlike gas or diode lasers which rely on bound atomic or molecular states. Free electron lasers can be used to generate terahertz radiation. LPS MaxFelasers uses a Proprietary excitation system (other details require NDAs) to produce a laser beam powerful enough to flash water to steam driving a turbine/generator. The power of the MaxFeLaser comes from its Fuel “Thorium”. The amount of free energy contained in thorium fuel is 20 million times the amount of free energy contained in a similar mass of chemical fuel such as coal making thorium an ideal source of energy. The investment opportunity is not in the thorium itself, it's in the technology that unlocks the value of thorium. The MaxFelaser system is that technology.
Visionary Cheat Sheet: Get Ahead Now With This Future Roadmap
It's pretty difficult to have an intelligent conversation about programming languages. Thus it's likewise difficult to advance the state of our art.

You try talking to most FPers about this stuff, and they get angry because you're telling them that Haskell is not the most optimal language for building a GUI. Go look at XMonad, they say. I'm sorry, but one damn example doesn't quite cut it.

You try talking to mainstream folks, and they always default back to the "where are the big, successful functional programs?" For christ's sake, when did the size of your codebase become something to be proud about? Did you become a goddamn excel-spreadsheet manager or something? The fact that all current systems are done in OO/imperative is not a good thing because quite frankly, most code SUCKS. And you know it.

For myself, personally, I've found the purity and laziness of Haskell too useful to dispense with. It's just that much better than other languages like OCaml because of the lazy bit. So what do I advocate? Leave the UI code to the imperative/OO languages, and do the backend in Haskell. This wins no fans in either camp.

But the pure FP camp is the one that has something to prove, so we're the ones at a loss here.

I think we should try to build part of a good, stable system in something our language is good at. In the real world, 80% is usually good enough, so lets get the 80% we're really darn good at (yes, I think pure FP is good at 80% of any task in any stack). Things that exploit parallelism and/or correctness seem ripe for the picking. Things like databases, or any sort of data processing.

Look at what the Erlang guys are doing with CouchDB. Even a full blown web backend seems like fair game. The problems I've had doing one have not been technical or related to Haskell. They're psychological (i.e. student syndrome). Someone with more experience than me ought to just go and do a better job.
ALL ELETRIC CAR IS ON THE WAY! THE CAR COMPANY THAT USES THIS TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD A CAR WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE THE WORLDS FIRST ULTRA LONG RANGE, LOW COST, EMISSION FREE CAR.The systems starts with the Laser Power Systems Phoenix T2000 Ultra High out put MaxFelaser a Hybrid Solid state Free Electron laser design that can producing up to 2000 watts more than enough to Flash water to high pressure steam driving a Tesla type turbine and high speed light weight generator Under development for U.S. Air Force, this is a 125 kW / 200 kW, 62,000 RPM generator using low cost induction technology to provide a compact, efficient generator system for stable and safe operation.

These generators operate in high temperature environments and provide engine start function as well. High temperature insulation schemes are also being developed This technology is ready to be adapted for use in cars, truck and other vehicles complete systems will weight less than 350 lbs. the 200 Kw unit equals 250 HP and larger units can easily be built.

Power to the wheels would be provided by a High Torque Density Traction Motor also Developed under contract from the U.S. Army TACOM, the motor is of a pancake type design with water-cooled stators. Compact electric motors and motor drives based on permanent magnet, brushless motor technologies provide high efficiency and compact size.The controller design is based on field orientation and hystertic switching for fast response to transient load changes. The software based control system is flexible and optimizes the generator performance. Electric start function is available. .

Compact power electronic controller design is based on hysteretic switching of input current. Water cooled power IGBTs have control signals transmitted via fiber optic cables to prevent adverse effects of electrical interference. Brassboard assembly and tests with partial loads have already been completed. The laser power systems have an operational time to burn out, of about 5,000 hours hours at full power out put before they need to be replaced. Giving a car the range of 5000hX60MPH thats right 300,000 miles of driving before fuel cell replacement, which will be in the range of $750 to $1,000 dollars.
I'm using "Turing complete", perhaps incorrectly, in the sense that Larry Wall (inventor of Perl) did in a related article at http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/997, where he says: "Basically, you can say pretty much anything in any human language, if you work at it long enough. Human languages are Turing complete, as it were."

Pirahã seems to be a language where expressing certain kinds of complex ideas doesn't work. Sure, one might say "I saw the dog. The dog is by the river." I'm not sure that's the same as "I saw the dog which bit me while I was down at the river yesterday looking for fresh-water oysters to feed my mother-in-law to impress her because she's telling my wife I'm a loser because my alligator hunting sucks." My impression is it's hard to express the latter thought in the language, even breaking it up into separate sentences, without using recursion, which the language lacks, at some point.
Stallman biography?
I wonder to what degree their de-listing efforts are algorithmically driven (using Page^H^H^H^HSpamRank™), and to what degree they are ad hoc reactions to obvious/reported abuse.
Can't I just do the same thing through AWS?
Can big trade shows survive Apple and Google?
The speed of iteration is much more limited when designing hardware. I think this is why the best bubble wins in hardware design but escaping the bubble is better in software design.
Rare Breeds, Frozen in Time - Cryopreservation
The Hacker Crackdown?
Commit to it. Don't just think "I should do this..." Decide that you're going to do it, and plan for it.
Google didn't really want to buy spectrum. Schmidt even publicly stated they had no intention to buy the spectrum. They were just after open access to the "C-block" of the spectrum which they got as a stipulation to them making a slightly higher than minimum bid. They got what they wanted, and it wasn't to own the spectrum.

With that said, I don't think google has any real interest in being a carrier, as that isn't where they make their money. They can leverage the mobile network much like the internet and continue to make their truck load of money via targeted ads.
Most of it is actually college kids getting paid per site if I remember correctly.
After linking to James Hague's article "Functional Programming Doesn't Work", Wallingford argues that a practical compromise is to write programs that contain about 90% pure and 10% stateful code. Interestingly, Hague came to the same conclusion in a followup to his own article:

"My real position is this: 100% pure functional programing doesn't work. Even 98% pure functional programming doesn't work. But if the slider between functional purity and 1980s BASIC-style imperative messiness is kicked down a few notches--say to 85%--then it really does work." http://prog21.dadgum.com/55.html
Evolveable Random Living 3D Artifacts for Neural Controllers
Solving Cryptograms, Part 1
Not for me. I see the behavior mentioned in the article.
Dedalus, a declarative language for programming distributed systems
Some people leave their computer on all the time anyway, so they would probably be interested.
"Engineers are:"

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I never travel with anything more than cabin approved luggage, no matter how long I go away from home.

There is the odd weird look when I pass customs with nothing but a shoulder bag for a 2 month stay (hey, they do have washing machines!) but usually not much trouble because of that.

If you let your bags out of your sight then anything could happen to them, you never know who could mess with your bags, some thrower or other person behind the scenes using you as a mule.

It happens, and it happens more often than you think. This is the first time though that a government is on the record as having done this.

What an absolutely unbelievable breach of trust. These people ought to be fired.
The difference with your examples is that writing jokes every day is a fairly well defined, specific, verifiable, action. Getting good grades, "being" a start-up billionaire are not. I can't see you in the state of getting good grades, but I could see you study a little each day with the result that you get good grades.
It is not in fact impossible to express that sort of sentence in Piraha. Embedding is accomplished by "noun-ifying" a clause by adding "-sai". The debate is whether or not this suffix represents actual embedding/recusion. This debate has been discussed at length in Language and other sources.
Are you in the old Excite@Home building that has the Stanford name on it now? Those offices were incredible, with the slide from the 4th floor to the 1st. Ahh, the fall of the silicon empire!
Paul,

I don't know about he level of your economic and financial sophistication, but just to get your feet wet, skim the following:

The Handbook of Financial Instruments, Frank Fabozzi, editor. A bird's eye view of what is out there.

The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham. The book the created the Value Investing philosophy, by Warren Buffet's teacher. Buffet was the only student in that class to get an A+.

Financial Statement Analysis, Fridson and Alvarez. How to read corporate reports and papers; whatever the CFOs want you to see,.

The Secrets of Economic Indicators, Bernard Baumohl. How to read the whole economy's report cards.

Hedges on Hedge Funds, James Hedges. Exactly what you need to know before you hand over your money to a hedge fund. Hopefully, the first book above by Fabozzi told you how many baskets you have available to put your eggs in. Hedge Funds rarely outperform the market, but that's not the whole story.

The Vital Few vs The Trivial Many, George Muzea. Good stuff :-) more geared toward active investors (even traders) but it's a good, insightful read. The mindset of "who should I listen to" is excellent. If you make a habit of reading financial statements, and scanning the market from time to time, seeing how movements in a given stock correspond with company news (a fun hobby, btw!) then you will get something from this book, specially on insider trading.

That's it for now.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good introduction to Chomsky's work for someone completely new to formal linguistics?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_%28book%29
Adding type constraint checks to dynamic languages is not "horrifying". It's merely using the language to extend the language; where you want type checks, you can have type checks.
I've noticed the same problem, on some searches the entire
first page is pure junk. Bet 80% of internet users don't know the difference. Maybe a power users mode that drops those from the search results would work.
That is really the least of my concerns. It's just that Best Buy only tends to sell the very lowest of the low-end stuff, but marks it up to high-end prices.

This is true of almost all retail stores, which is why I pretty much only shop online now. The brick-and-mortar stores want to blame sales tax or too-low online prices for their woes, but the reality is that they only sell crap. Most people do not want to buy crap, and don't. As a result, the brick-and-mortar stores that only sell crap are not doing too well compared to the online stores that sell things people actually want to buy.

(Notice how Apple's retail stores do fine. This is because they actually sell good products.)
Not so sure. When I'm looking for information on, say, WWII history, I can't ask someone or go on a trusted website like when I'm looking for information on a field I'm familiar with. I don't have any acquaintance or favourite websites already, which is why I'm using a search engine.

The large amount of [quiz,farm,friend of the day] spam on my facebook, and the various hoax chain letters my not-too-web-savvy aunt sends us sometimes, also make me a little jaded on the value of 'social $whatever' for information gathering.
Asia Gains a Tech Edge by Backing Start-Ups
Still working on http://www.RateMyStudentRental.com, trying to improve student rental housing one school at a time.
Reading the entire article before posting is hard, let's go ranting.
What may be great advice for your typical developer, may not be optimal behavior for Jonathan Ive and crew.
one of my favorite books also ;)
Yes, it's retribution for cancelling that kid's account or whatever.

EDIT: oh wait, this is an old article. The new one hasn't happened yet.
When special interest groups have the amount of lobbying power that they do today you get nonsense like this.

Why such a thing as a lobby even exists is beyond me, the government is supposed to be there for the people.
And not a single word devoted to the user experience - boggles the mind how geeks continue to ignore the most obvious, the most important part of any consumer device, even after seeing the incredible rise of the iPhone.
Incorrect; On linux and OS/X it uses fork. On windows it uses a best-effort clone.
Search engines should avoid being in the business of egging people on. That has to be one messy program/algorithm/filter. We put one together for a retail company emails and stopped 20% of the incoming mail. It was pretty funny what combos you can get.
MRO: Map Rows to Objects (tiny Django-like "ORM" for web.py)
"Crowdsourcing" for grassroots activism: http://dreamact.info/
Technically true, but almost all phones are acquired via subsidies anyway. If you BYO device you get no real cost reduction unless you want a very high end device on a very low end plan or some other end case.

The only segment where BYO phone is strong is in prepaid. You do actually save money by not being on a plan but this isn't the option most people go for. People don't see it as the "grown-up" option.

Not many people do you think buy an iphone from Apple for $1040(http://store.apple.com/au/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...). They get it from Optus or something for $10 p/m or free. http://personal.optus.com.au/web/ocaportal.portal?_nfpb=true...
Coming from the days of the cassette recorder when we all used to record from the radio and share tapes with friends, how is it that this is anything less than persecution? Is this sort of judgment making us warm towards the recording industry or artists? Assuming that people who download are the biggest buyers?(Forrester research) can they really make a case for any losses?
http://www.phrequency.com/blog/Study_shows_music_pirates_buy...
Sunil Gavaskar alleges nexus over Stuart Broad non-action
Where is this negativity coming from?

No claim is made that the factors they lay out are the only important ones. I'm sure they assume many of the user experience differences are well-understood, and they are just laying out the costs.
Few people would come back and add the sensation back. If they do, they must have thought about it and been more rational.
> In one video titled Jonas Brother Live On Stage, a user posted a comment saying: "I'm 12 years old and what is this?"

Not sure if bbc realizes this is just another 4chan meme...
Looks like he denied my post directly on the blog. Real big of him. False alarm, just slow to approve.

In parting I'd like to say this: wake up, Ad-riddled sites get tossed up in miliseconds (I know, I've written an engine to do so). You can't possibly make a search engine that can de-list fast enough. SEO IMers will fucking break you and that's just the way it's going to be unless someone (God forbid) regulates who can make websites and how fast.

post script, there are millions, if not hundreds of millions, of legit websites that use the easy and unobtrusive Ad-sense ads to pay for (sometimes) very expensive hosting.

You want to talk about destroying the internet? You're describing the obliteration of (almost) any non-corporate website.
The image is from a financial services site (not a geek site.) Some of us out there find money very important, even if you don't.

Source: http://www.billshrink.com/blog/nexus-one-vs-iphone-droid-pal...
Just curious, is the storefront in Cappuccino, or just the admin section?
I hope you share the details of 'what to do after you ...' here.
Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct is a good popularization.

Caveats: Pinker diverges from Chomsky on a lot of things, but he makes it fairly plain what's his and what is Chomsky. Pinker also gets a bad rap (unfairly in my opinion) of being a retrograde right-winger, because of his association with evolutionary psychology.
One Mistake - the plan only has 500 minutes and costs $79.

Also, initial pricing not quite as straightforward as presented:

http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

ie, $179 only if you are a new customer switching to t-mobile.
You can get prepaid if you don't have a service contract. It of course depends on your usage pattern whether it ends up being cheaper, but it's very common in Sweden.
Paranoid fanboy?
I think that's the first time I've heard someone specifically use the concept of Huffman coding in evaluating language design. It makes a ton of sense, and maybe it's a more well known viewpoint than I realize.
Sending this to my guitar-playing friends!

Tangent: Given your expertise, do you think it would be theoretically possible to write a program that attempts to detects the '1' beat in Latin/Afro-Cuban music, using your techniques, live, in real-time? Maybe using clave detection. Thanks in advance.
Go language roadmap
You should put (old) in the title or something, this is half a year past.
This isn't a strict cost breakdown - in fact the vast majority of the chart is spec-sheet comparison. Clearly this chart is meant for a lot more than just "here are the overall costs to owning the following phones", yet fail to include IMHO the most important aspects of picking a consumer electronics device.

"Some of us out there find money very important, even if you don't."

Hi, I'm a human being behind this keyboard - and would appreciate if you'd lay off the smug condescension, especially since I have shown you none.
What's the top 3/4 of the chart doing there if this is the case? The majority of the chart is pure spec-sheet comparison, and of little relevance if the purpose is a cost comparison.
No, it wasn't Prolog. It was relatively new and unknown.

It wasn't a logic language; you actually created new syntax for the language, with BNF rules.
Wasn't he was focusing mainly on the result not answering his question, rather than taste (though both are factors).

At first I was thinking that what you seek amounts to strong AI, but then I remembered that there are measures for objectively assessing how easy text is to understand (even Word has some built-in); though, ironically, text that is understandable by a lower age is usually easier to understand (i.e. better) than that which is so convoluted that it requires multiple PhDs to parse.

Unfortunately, Google is not finding these metrics for me, because I don't know what they're called... ah, here we go: Passive Sentences Test, Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.
Yes, everyone knows exactly why they're doing it but:

a) By censoring some terms they open themselves up to more criticism, they can no longer point out that everything is done algorithmically; and

b) It's still possible to get offensive search suggestions out of Google, try typing 'Allah is'
Ai, Apologies, I completely missed that. Delete it or leave it?
"white people are stupid" (without quotes) has 218 million results. It's one of the suggestions that google (presumably) blocks. That's many more results than a lot of useful suggestions ("michael jackson songs" has 88 million).

It turns out "(race or religion or nationality) are" is blocked for most races, religions, and nationalities.
> Technically true, but almost all phones are acquired via subsidies anyway.

Again, yes, in the US. In some Asian countries, you can walk into any mall and there will be any number of stores selling new or used cellphones all of which are unlocked.

> People don't see it as the "grown up" option.

Again, this is limited to particular cultures. In some countries, prepaid is the norm, not the exception. People keep their numbers and switch phones as they move from one phone to the next, and buy only as much load as they need. (USD 0.20 good for 10 SMS messages)
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Is that happening this year?
Apparently 4chan was planning a reprise for tomorrow. I don't know why this article came up in BBC's most popular list right now, as it's indeed from May.
This article is hype. There's nothing overly special about selling an unlocked handset anywhere on planet earth.
But it was posted as a direct response to a statement made in another article that was on the front page today, which sparked some discussion.

In this case, it's not about "news," it's about having an intelligent, informed discussion. And interesting stuff that is explained well.
Well... But since placebos can't be used therapeutically, and Drug A can, doesn't that make it better than nothing?
I just read the Lua manually, and it appears as though Lua has a GIL.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/ThreadsTutorial

ANSI C, the standard to which Lua complies, has no mechanism for managing multiple threads of execution.

The method above for implementing threading in Lua using a global mutex is inefficient on multiprocessor systems. As one thread holds the global mutex, other threads are waiting for it. Thus only one Lua thread may be running at a time, regardless of the number of processors in the system.

Am I misinterpreting what's being written here?
Maybe it's just the charisma of people like Wall and Conway speaking, but everything said about Perl 6 makes it sound like God's gift to humanity. And yet nobody seems to be interested. Am I going to have to learn this language just to form an opinion about it?