skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but when you're working on a project that uses only a few languages, specialised tools are always going to be much more effective, and you just update the tools as you update your choice of language(s). Jack of all trades is master of none, as the saying goes.
Yeah, when I read the article it sounded like this passive mindset. Why leave it to chance when you can train someone hehe! That, to me, is the right attitude.
Slime makes a lot of this navigation possible; I don't think dynamicness has anything to do with it.

It seems like what would be hard is dot-oriented method invocation ala python and ruby. There's been some work at figuring that out using static code analysis, but it's a lot less ready.
This doesn't sound right to me. Do you perhaps mean PCI Level 1 compliance (which requires on site data center audits and thus cannot be provided by any cloud host)?

For instance, what about Heroku/EC2 prohibits me from using Authorize.net as my payment processor, provided I never store card data?
1) Is the gas cost per year?

2) Is the electricity cost per year?

3) Am I more polluting because my government taxes energy more, which multiplies my electricity cost by more than a factor of 4? Probably better to allow people to enter the amount of energy.

4) Why only ask about beef, not about meat in general?
I'm very confused by the other section and see no explanation anywhere but it takes up 75% of my pie chart :/

Edit: Even if everything is set at zero everyone still raises the earth by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

If this site wants to educate people they need to give out more information but as of now it looks like they are just gathering data and making a silly pie chart and map.
I can see potential in this for living room browsing on a TV. It's more of a passive approach to content. You don't have to seek anything out -- it's just there and you can click Next if you don't like it for something else. Everything seems to be formatted well for a TV sized/resolution display. If this was built into my TV or other set tops I'd probably use it.
"I don't believe in this (relatively recent) trend of associating AI with bodies."

The problem is that "strong AI" (ie. an AI considered intelligent in the deepest sense of the term, with intelligence equal to or greater than that of a human) has pretty much run in to a dead end. Lots of approaches have been tried over the decades, and all have failed.

Strong AI research needs new ideas and new approaches. Making a close coupling between the "brain" (or "mind") and the body is one such relatively new approach. As such, I applaud it.

Like the approaches that came before, it also might lead up a blind alley. But at least they're trying something new and different, instead of banging their head on the same wall.

And, apart from the sheer novelty of the approach, there has been a lot of evidence that much of the "processing" that has been assumed to be done in the brain is actually done in the body.

Some relatively recent robotics research has been focused on creating robots without any kind of a "brain", but just with a "nervous system". These robots are able to move around and achieve goals. Here's some information on a conference where these sorts of robots are demonstrated:

http://ine-web.org/telluride-conference-2010/telluride-2010/...

These robots are a far cry from achieving the goal of strong AI, but they point to an alternative approach to AI that is not brain-centric, to coin a term.
As i final note, i will send the prototype for review soon to some major tech blogs, in the hope they will review us. You will then be able to speak with a clue. Thanks a lot. Alberto
That is my biggest problem with vim/emacs - they can edit the code well, but they have no real notion of syntax. You can do refactoring based on their lexers and a lot of regex, but it's just not what you really want.

I would really like to see Yi step up at some point and solve the problem here. It's already got proper incremental parsing with a proper syntax tree. When people add advanced language-specific modes to it, it might be the first "proper" refactoring vim/emacs like text-only IDE.
If you enter 0 for everything, the average global temperature change is still +1.8°F.
Crowded offices can be good for climbing a learning curve. The biggest problem most of the interns would face would be setting up their systems, getting the build to work, and figuring out how to integrate stuff into the system.

Lots of communication is good for that.

If they needed to do any deep thinking, I hoped they would have been allowed to work from home for a day.
Hi everyone, I released a sample dataset a couple days ago.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176977
Clearly, you produce too much body heat. We must eliminate you.

As an educational tool, this is flawed. Anyone with curiosity and an attentions span longer than 10 seconds will try the 'all zeros', and the message this sends is that purely by existing, you are screwing up the world. This is not true, as best I know!
"If not, you don't pay for it and toss it away what apparently Mozilla did."

They did not toss it away, which is the whole point. They used it in public material.

That you can't "force" yourself to think in terms of accepting or declining agreements is an issue you might look into; I have nothing further to add.
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That didn't take long: http://www.repealtheamazontax.com/
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In many ways I'd love the luxury of writing code in just a few languages. The reality is though, at justin.tv, I've needed to write code in (at least) 7 different languages over the past 2.5 years. I would not have liked to learn 7 different IDEs on top of learning new languages. (We don't tend to gratuitously start using new languages - it's just often a requirement as a project gets more ambitious and wants to do more things and reach more targets).
Some Muslim groups permit those marriages. I forget which.
Next up: J.M. Keynes on quantum electrodynamics.
They're projecting using historical data, so that makes sense (if everyone stopped consuming over and above what they've been consuming the temperature would still rise.

From the how it works link:
http://thealmanacapp.com/question_sources
There is a how it works link: http://thealmanacapp.com/question_sources
I thought this was a really interesting idea. In uni (college) I became pretty dependent on Mind Maps (using FreeMind) for planning essays. Laying all the relevant concepts and relationships out visually worked really well for me.

From that angle, I think anything that helps programmers visualize the structure of their software is a good thing. I think any half-decent programmer is good at maintaining these kind of relationship graphs in their head, anyhow. But that's no reason why tooling can't make that even better. There's potential for a programmer to visualise the structure of their program, beyond what they can hold in their head.

I also like that this idea encourages good overall design, short logically arranged methods, and neatly compartmentalises "workspaces" in a visual way.

I have a few criticisms, though:

- Nowhere near enough keyboard-driving for my liking. :).

- It'd be great if zooming out could transform the representation a bit, so instead of ant-size pieces of code the user could work with only the higher-level abstractions between the bubbles they've laid out. I see this happening from the "groups" and "workspaces", but not being inferred from the code itself.

- Is there some other way to show bubbles that were opened independently, but are actually related in the code? Apart from drawing a specific line and seeing the call graph (which is neat, btw.)

- I'm concerned about what happens when a single workspace gets bigger than a single window.

- What happens when design (as it often needs to) breaks through neatly defined abstractions, and lines start needing to be drawn all over the place. Can Code Bubbles represent this without driving the programmer insane, and (also) can it represent this in a way which encourages the programmer to see better ways to refactor?

- Arbitrary areas and names, in a flat namespace on a flat 2D plane, with no relationships between them, is nice and simple. However, it seems like it would limit you when working with big projects and lots of different, but related, spaces.
Even if you think university will teach you absolutely nothing, you've got a one-time offer from society that we're going to subsidize anything you do for the next four years and not have any expectation that you'll work for a living during that time. This offer is essentially only good once. Take it.

That said, you can learn an awful lot from school. You say it is tedious -- that suggests to me you're underchallenged. Have you tried learning a foreign language yet? Like, really learning a foreign language, rather than learning to say "Yo quiero una cerveza" like I assume your high school Spanish has taught you? It is incredibly rewarding, in all possible senses of the term rewarding, and you'll never get a better opportunity than the next four years. (Dedicated instructors, plenty of time not occupied by the demands of job and family, social push to complete studies, possibility of study abroad bankrolled by someone else and unrestricted by visa concerns, etc etc etc...)

You can also learn quite a bit about programming during college, even if actually doing it is a much better teacher. (Although, again, we're subsidizing all your activities for four years -- you show up for 3 hours of classes 5 days a week, the rest of the time is yours, program as much as you want to program.)

Incidentally, I hate to sound like An Official Adult, but just trust me on this one: the job market for young Americans sucks right now, and you absolutely do not want to be facing it without a degree. Degrees are not just for boring megacorps coding Blub: even cool companies which code Lisp look for people who can carry tasks to completion, and not possessing a degree when we hand them out like candy on Halloween suggests "I am insufficiently motivated to do clearly beneficial things when they require non-trivial amounts of actual work. Please employ me -- you will find me excellent at everything you assign me to do, provided none of it is actual work."
I disagree with that author and I'm not even sure what point he is trying to make.

If a smaller brain is more intelligent than a bigger brain, I assume it is more complex (for instance, it has more interconnections).

In computer science though, it takes more processing power to simulate more complex representations of reality. Therefore, we would need more processing power to represent a small intelligent brain than a big stupid brain.

Software and our analog world are two very different beasts. Small and complex physical things sometimes take more processing power to represent than big simple ones.
1), 2)--probably per month.
3) Well, of course the actual amount of energy would be better, but the poll did say "average American."
4) Because raising cattle is an incredibly expensive way of producing meat. For example, producing one pound of beef takes several thousand more pounds of water than a pound of chicken does. Did you notice how in their energy consumption pie chart how beef alone took up a big slice?

More sources on how expensive beef is: http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/environment.html
Bad retort. The prerequisites to understanding economics is hardly close to that needed to understand QED. Besides, economists have physics envy. Physicists can intelligently contribute to economics.
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This is just an analysis of the author, in no point it addresses the issue that she mentions. The "psych" just calls her ideas "dangerous" in the end, and sticks to an ad-hominem.

I'd like to read someone who can actually find a counter-argument to her thesis and convince me that the best thing women can do is to hold on to their ideal all the way to the end.
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“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

Classic. How many entrepreneurs create value and in the process made themselves rich instead of focusing on money first
"Lots of approaches have been tried over the decades, and all have failed."

I beg to differ with that.

Marvin Minsky's idea of having 5000 people creating a common sense database of sorts wasn't tried. (the closest is cyc, which only had 20 people most of the time).

Genetic programming has not been tried at all really.

Machine learning hasn't been seriously tried either (the closest efforts have been google goggles and google search maybe).

AI is serious and complicated engineering project. Billions are spent on creating skyscapers, tunnels, and airplanes. Yet the money spent on AI is orders of magnitude less even though the payoff is orders of magnitude more.

If I had to guess, I'd say AI would be easily achievable within a year using any of the above approaches if a trillion dollars were spent on it this year.
I've made some useful/interesting local connections and a few friends on Twitter. I think it can be useful for niche interests, be it hacking, food or music. The problem is that users need to be patient and discerning in developing a good list to follow. I've found much more value in finding new contacts on Twitter and more in maintaining distant relationships on Facebook.
Respect for this guy. I built and sold a social search engine a few years ago and its incredibly hard to get user adoption. We got to about 50k uniques a day and that was as high as it got. I knew I was in for trouble, because even I kept using google though the results from our engine were superior. Its hard to combat that type of brand loyalty/pattern when even the founder of another search engine wants to continue using google.
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This article could be mapped readily into "Get a real job: The case for settling for a steady paycheck."
{ = "woo woo"
} = "nyuk nyuk"
So, just because the driver was drunk doesn't mean it was an accident. In fact, the odds against it being accidental are enormous considering how remote the area is.
So, after seeing you don't seem to care about ripping off bits and pieces of web design I figured there might be more to this, maybe you ripped off the design of your 'ensopad' too.

Look familiar ?

http://www.smit.com.cn/English/proDetail.asp?InfoId=126&...
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Patio is spot on as usual. All I can add to this is the following:

As an American it might not be immediately obvious but if you ever want to get a work visa in another 1st world country, having a degree in something useful is just about required. With the current state of the world and the US in particular, this could turn out to be a very important thing.
I remain amused/disturbed that so many people here sincerely believe that if they wrong someone else, the wronged party owes them a back-channel discussion to resolve things cheaply and quietly.

If you make promo material with someone's designs (after declining to pay), you should be very grateful if that person's willing to work it out without involving lawyers. A public apology and a promise to do things better is far cheaper than an attorney's billable hours.

If that person is kind enough to do all this quietly, then be twice as grateful for that person's kindness.

Mozilla and Aza Raskin have understood this better than their defenders - when you're in the hole, stop digging. No excuses, no defensiveness. Fix your mistake, acknowledge that you were wrong, explain your error if it was innocent, and apologize.
Major in software engineering and build some cool stuff in the meantime, sharpening your skills. Then apply to YC during your jr/sr year.
I personally don't find these types of articles interesting either, but the HN guidelines say this:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.

So if this story has upvotes, I presume some "good hackers" here have found it interesting.
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Wow thanks, this really makes sense to me.

I'm already fluent in Russian, and I am learning my native language, Armenian, at the moment.

And I wouldn't say that I'm under challenged. College seems like a lot of work, but that thrill of a challenge is missing. It's also a tough time for my family, so I'm also working as much as I can. I guess my main dilemma is the lack of free time. It might have been unclear in my post, but I was thinking that my time would be better spent coding than trying to be an overachiever in school.

Nevertheless, I really appreciate the advice!
In the long run marriage should be a last resort. The vector from mama's vagina to the pine box may not be straight but it IS very short. Heaven is a fantasy so do your best to live peacefully and passionately.

Marriage contains a bit of wonder surrounded by pitfalls aplenty. It is best engaged in by the simplistic and rigid.
I don't think your comment sounds awful, but in my opinion you are giving too much importance to age and looks.

I am 28 myself and when dating I am not trying to evaluate whether she already passed her prime time or if she still has a couple of good years cause she is Asian. Unless you are a teenager or in the early twenties, we are all going downhill. Shouldn't we try to find a partner who we like and share interests with, regardless of age (obviously, there are some boundaries).

It seems you don't want a girl to 'settle' with you, but there's a ton of reasons to do so independently of her age. Maybe she wants you only for your money, or your looks...
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean. It seems (from a certain perspective, at least) that physics is much more thoroughly understood than economics. We can make really precise predictions in physics... economics, not so much.
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I'm not sure that counterargument could really be made. Anyone holding out for an ideal person is going to be looking forever. Everyone has faults. The relationship depends on whether you can still be happy despite those faults.

That said, I think Lori is totally misguided. She feels she hasn't found a guy because her standards were too high, and that now she needs to lower them and "settle". Maybe she hasn't found a guy because she was too busy measuring guys by some predefined standards, and missed out on having fun. At the end of the day, standards and faults don't really matter if you enjoy being with the other person.
CoffeeScript: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#existence
That's not the same since you are executing the bar method multiple times.
It doesn't have to be about relationships - I have Facebook for that. An audience can be useful and a lot of fun. I get thoughtful responses to questions I posit and random insights that have affected my thinking. There's some off the wall stuff and that can be fun too.

I think Twitter has a perceived high barrier to entry. If you don't have any friends on it, why would you tweet to yourself? And if you don't tweet, why would anyone follow you?

It's all about who you follow, IMHO.
Indeed. Budget it out however you like, but if you can exactly make ends meet each month, chances are you can make ends meet and have one dollar left over to save. Look a bit harder and you might find $50 left.

Start thinking that way, and keep at it for a while and suddenly you'll find you're not living month-to-month anymore.
That wouldn't work so great for men / women who elect to become househusbands / housewives upon marriage. While the other partner spends those 10 years building their career, they toil away at home cleaning, preparing meals, and raising the kids, only to be left high and dry when their partner declines to renew. Now what are they to do? They have little job experience to build upon.

Unless your solution comes with alimony / child support, I don't see how it would work. And if it did, what's so different about it than getting a divorce?
My electric bill is HUGE compared to the average American. Do people living in regular houses really have $50/month electric bills?
Any tiling window manager will have a mode, usually the default, where no windows will be occluded. Instead, all screen space is divided among them according to some algorithm.
If you need to perform background tasks more frequently you can always spawn a worker process.

I find that the read only FS is a good thing, decoupling storage from app servers really helps wrt to scaling.
Trust me, what you learn from high school will probably not help you at all. In fact, you'll forget all of it after graduation. However, the point of high school is to develop certain skills and to challenge you.

That being said, I'm in this situation as well. I'm a grade 12 student from Canada. However, I've decided to join the hacking and start up culture. Being in the technology industry, I, of course, started my own web design company called Design Vetica. Sam, rather than waiting, why not do it now? Soon after, we were covered in many articles. One of them, for example, is http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2010/01/design-vetica-the-dou... As of now, we are already looking into building our first application

Shameless plug aside, I think school is great, but learning should not be about getting a job. I love programming, that's why I'm going into Computer Science in university. Again, Sam, if you truly want to accomplish something, start today.

Two great links that talks about school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2PGGeTOA4
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...
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Because of my college credits, I will be entering the University as a Jr. What I'm afraid of is that I will not have enough time to sharpen my skills in a year or two, which is why I've had graduate school in the back of my mind. And also why I feel like I should be coding as much as can now.
"Physicists can intelligently contribute to economics"

Someone should submit a link of an example; this does not do so any more than a blog rant about the "global warming hoax" contributes to climatology.
About 30% of first marriages and 40% of second marriages fail within the first ten years (and, as the parent noted over 50% of first marriages fail-- see table 41 and the appendix table II of http://cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_022.pdf ). About 20% of each fail within the first five years.

Ten years is not enough time for children to be conceived and raised to maturity in a two-parent home (a situation that significantly improves probable education and life outcomes for a child). Ten-year term contracts are too short to secure the primary purpose of marriage--forming families to raise children--and too long to make a large dent on the divorce rate.
Unfounded. http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp

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Physicists can intelligently contribute to economics.

I remain to be convinced that economists can, in general, intelligently contribute to economics. At least physics gets results...
That might be the correct way to write that code if the situation is not recoverable.

Say you have

public int doubleFooBarBazQux(Foo foo) {
return foo.bar().baz().qux() * 2;
}

That might throw a NPE, but what's the alternative?
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