skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why not? usually you can sell for a nice multiple of monthly revenue on flippa. you can also try ebay, but you'd have to get the word out a lot more.
Guido works at Google. I wonder if Google is looking at functional languages like Clojure.
This is the kind of thing I picture vividly when someone says a phrase like "cutthroat business practices."
We also received a similar email this morning from Amazon. Our eggs are not all in one basket, but they were definitely weighted that way. Lesson Learned!

We mostly use Amazon's webservices for price comparisons on a book site, but it's interesting to note they left our AStores up and running, but obviously we won't generate any money from them....
I think we need more info about the site, care to post the URL?
Firstly, sorry to hear about your health.

I'd approach similar, established companies that would be interested in acquiring your tech, or could use it in some form. As a last resort you could also consider splitting it up and selling it off in parts, assuming it's modular enough to do so.

You should go some way to getting a good amount of your investment back.

Good luck.
Ok, you're right, there was a lump sum allocated to the Fed Dept of Ed which will eventually make it's way to the states through various reform-based programs -- programs, which, btw, are based on teacher accountability in a way that the teachers' unions are hugely opposed to.

I thought conservatives would eat that up? Between that and the tax cuts, I can see how the party-over-substance crowd would have a big problem with this guy actually documenting where the money went. It's a lot easier to just shout "socialism!" than to talk about the numbers.

Regarding aid "to states to shore up their budgets", there was precisely zero, funding unemployment benefits and medicaid is not grant money going to states, it passes straight through to the recipients. There was originally a big item that involved the federal government contributing to state budgets in order to forestall state layoffs for a year, which I thought would be a great example of counter-cyclical spending. Unfortunately, it also made great hay for those who wanted to attack the bill in general as "big spending", so it got jettisoned. That's what I was referring to, not pass-through expenditures like medicaid, unemployment, etc.
I know absolutely nothing about the laws in CO but maybe there was some legal reason they couldn't come out and say that beforehand? Maybe it could have been taken as some form of blackmail, "If you sign this we'll do this really bad thing to you".

I have no stake either way in this but as an outside observer I think Amazon did the right thing. If more states try to make the internet money grab like CO did (as I know more than one state is doing, including my own) they'll see that instead of more "revenues" they'll just be hurting e-commerce in their state and making their constituents unhappy.
There exactly are two correct angles for a 3D pie chart:

1. Totally dead-on, so it appears to be 2D (Good)

2. Parallel to the surface of the pie, so you can't see the pie and wind up using a better chart type instead (Better)
I would say the "mistakes" you write about are also stylist errors. But at least here you can point to some pedants - as opposed to real writers - who would agree with you. Moreover, the pedants can point to some grammar-like rules to back this up.

The new list of "grammar mistakes" being critiqued in the parent are both innovations in language control and don't have much syntax-like quality to them. The English teachers have most of these covered in other categories already. Still, one might see the list as effort by grammarians at a land grab in language-space similar to Apple's UI patenting land grab in information-space. Either way, it is wrong.

The most atrocious pseudo-grammar rule I know is the absurd 'that' versus 'which' pseudo-distinction. This made-up piece of rule-fluff is common enough that I wasn't able to remove from my MS Word grammar checker. Losing that was perhaps the one good to come to me from switching to Open Office.
> - Kino's Journey < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino%27s_Journey >

The anime version of Kino's Journey is probably my favourite anime.
I wonder what would happen if Jason just tuned off noindex tags on odd days? Clearly turning it off and on gets more blogs talking about it each time
Android Phone Grows Up, Becomes Brain for Real Robot
This is great, really glad they're moving to JS from Flash.
If I ever were to design a language, it would only be after studying all of the various interesting programming languages. How else can you be certain that you aren't doing something that hasn't been done before?

If that always happened, there would be almost no new langs ever.

Again: definition of a gentleman computer scientist: Some one who knows enough to write a new programming language, but doesn't.
Of course! Vagrant is not specific to rails at all!

The getting started screencast I made shows how to setup a LAMP environment: http://vimeo.com/9976342

And the getting started guide shows a rails environment.

Those should get you started on the path to python as well =]

Mitchell
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Do you really think that interfaces on their own constitute 'uber flexibility taking over'?
> Those things—the working, drinking, and meat eating—

Meat is expensive in Japan. I buy a 400 gram steak and a Coke&brandy for $4.63 total.
How to create a meeting agenda, by MeetingMix (YC S08)
Ubisoft's DRM service fails; paying customers can't play
The difference between me and my parents (and maybe you)
That really sucks. I do a lot of affiliate stuff, and waking up to an email like that is my nightmare.
Go Flash-free: How to browse the web and watch videos without Adobe Flash
That's what I remember too. Guess they figured out it was hard, and they couldn't compete with Wikipedia.
Valve announces Steam for Mac, games will allow Mac-PC online play
$40,000 fine for a "programming error"
My Chrome Extension: Unencrypted Password Warning
If this red mixture is spewing out occasionally, and it's coming from the lake, how exactly is the bacteria colony in the lake "isolated for 1.5 million years"? It seems to me that there is potentially a path for flowing liquid connecting the lake to the front of the glacier. The alternative would be that the glacier occasionally picks up material from the top of the lake and slowly transports it as a separate mass to the front of the glacier where it gets released. Have radar studies of the glacier been done to determine its internal structure and the transport mechanism?
A tax cheat in charge of the Treasury which includes the Federal tax collection agency; this has immediate real world effects in terms of people's attitudes towards paying taxes.

This also cripples one of the most important positions in the government in a time of economic troubles.
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No. This isn't someone commenting on an inflammatory comment that Calacanis made in order to attract attention. It's someone outing Calacanis for shady business practices, and putting more pressure on Google to end those practices.

It's part of the search engine scammer playbook to stay just close enough to the line for people like us to get exhausted hearing about it.
mtw,

Thanks! Vagrant was really made to target the development environment, since the production world is pretty well covered in terms of deployment (whereas John and I thought that the development side of things had been neglected).

But keyist answers your question best. I've quoted his response below:

"Could you perhaps turn convert a Vagrant project into an EC2 instance for deployment?"

That's where Chef comes in. Vagrant uses Chef (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home) for provisioning VMs. It's basically software configuration management (same category as cfengine or Puppet) -- you write cookbooks that specify how a system should be set up (see http://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/raw/master/nginx/recipes... for an example).
If you write your Chef configuration the right way (ie not hardcoding anything to a set of system specifications), you can take the same set of Chef cookbooks you write and deploy to EC2 or any other Linux box, virtual or no.
So with Vagrant you can essentially pass around a virtual machine configuration amongst your team and be confident that the entire team is coding and testing in a near-exact replica of the production environment. Not that this was impossible before, but Vagrant streamlines the process.
I've provisioned 20+ servers with Chef and once you have a solid base configuration you can take your attended time on a full server stack (nginx, memcached, post{gres,fix}, munin... the works, essentially) to less than 10 minutes.
IANAL, and I've never been in that position, but I would use a different language in rewriting. If you rewrite in the same language, a lot of your functions will look very similar, and that similarity might be enough to burn you. Changing languages, on the other hand, will enforce significant difference on your approach to the problem, and possibly improve it. (I have no idea how this would play out in court.)

If nothing else, it's an excuse to learn a new language.
When you're in an unintended acceleration situation, you don't want the only solution to be one that introduces several other sudden, unintended changes in the behavior of the car.

And in a panic situation, you're not going to be able to reliably turn the key only one click counterclockwise to the off position instead of two clicks to the lock position.
I was hoping to see something that was better than what I would expect from a 12 year old.
I would feel as if I were held to an even higher standard than usual if I were called in by the President to do something like this.

I can be reasonably assured that no such thing will happen to me, so all I can hope for is that Tufte holds himself to the same ideal.
Well, to be really fair, most of the people I've seen trying to prove him wrong ended up implementing it as, basically, "let my_reduce = reduce", or something similar but obfuscated enough to make it not look completely tautologous. Which is really the point: a lot of the modern FP languages make folds and other similar constructs so fundamental to the language ("primitives" in terms of the quote) that it can be difficult -- either due to mindset or due to the language itself getting in the way -- to drop down a level or two on the abstraction ladder and try different approaches.

(and the fact that everybody who hasn't implemented a tautologous reduce has basically used the same tail-recursive algorithm lends a bit more support to this theory)

The more I think about it, it's just another expression of the old "when all you have is a hammer" aphorism. Guido's being yelled at and called names not because he's wrong or because he's stupid or doesn't understand what he's talking about, he's being yelled at and called names because the "hammer" in this case -- functional programming -- is a bit of a sacred cow, and a lot of people get really defensive about it.
A few questions I'd like to see discussed:

1) Do you find the description convincing?

2) Are you put off from installing by the warning that the extension has "access to your private data across all websites"? This warning is mandatory for extensions that can access the DOM on all websites, which, of course, this extension needs to do.

3) Is a warning like the one this extension provides a good idea? Why don't browsers ship with such warnings? Does it go too far in preventing you from submitting your password in cleartext?

By the way, this will prevent you from logging into Hacker News until you add news.ycombinator.com to the list of whitelisted domains on the options page.
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Cisco to make announcement Tuesday which "will forever change the Internet"
recently hacker news simply replaced my rss reader. if there is something new that i may be interested in, i'm sure it will front-page here, so I let other people do the skimming for me.
They have a ton of videos on their site but not enough info that builds credibility... how effective is their platform? how long will they be around? should I trust them to build my apps on their framework -- what if they disappear?
It amazes me how some programming language authors seem to be clueless about really major areas of our field.

Guido isn't the only one. Andrew (the submitter/author of this post) once told me a story of how Brian Kernighan told him Scheme had too many parentheses and is too strange and functional to be useful (take that with a grain of salt - it's a paraphrase of a paraphrase). I've also yet to see any non-Smalltalker/Erlanger language author understand the importance of OOP in the sense of creating encapsulated objects which can be hot-swapped at will. As far as I can tell, this was the point of OOP as Alan Kay saw it. Java-style "reload the VM to reload objects" being called OOP is just painful.
Man I'm jealous. Anyone interested in doing this in Boston?
I always thought that the Strunk and White was about style - it's up to the reader to decide whether it's good advice or not - but to call it clueless is just wrong. My English improved a lot after reading that book.
Now that you mention it yes, there is supervision. I am it and I forbid you from coming here again. ;)
This is one area where we really need feedback as most of the projects that Mitchell and I work on are Ruby/Rails (although Mitchells workload is much more diverse than my own).

Stop by #vagrant if you have any questions!
The animations are pretty much the same as from http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/

I recommend watching some videos from http://www.gapminder.org/videos/ , they have a lot of great stuff in there.
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Add to the list Geithner, who has very close ties with the folks who screwed up Wall Street in the first place..
Nice. I discarded it because from the source forge page it looks like dead (no update since 2008 or so, according to the comments in http://sourceforge.net/projects/dimdim/ ).

I will re-consider it..
FWIW, these pages have been removed from Duck Duck Go for quite some time.
One has to wonder how this fits in with FathomDB who recently partnered with Rackspace on the heels of Amazon RDS. Could be collaborative or a replacement. Thoughts?
I don't like it. The new Facebook design centers around the search bar for a reason. I'm sure Facebook designers tracked user behavior and gathered that the search bar should be more in focus. This redesign botches this concept completely. Information design !> usability design. Also, the distance you have to move your eyes left to right to read this is a readability issue. Basically, you have to work way too hard to read this and do what you want to do. That's my 2c.
I want something I can self-host - both because of cost, and because I want to be able to tweak things as needed. I haven't looked at JWebPresenter before - thanks!
Ask HN: Does any company want to hire me?
My Situation:

So I am a senior in college graduating in May and I have been offered a job doing business development for a pretty cool venture backed startup when I graduate. I think this is an awesome accomplishment since I figure it is hard in general for a business guy to get hired at a startup with less than 15 people let alone one right out of school.

I've ran a web development company throughout college and am pretty good at SEM, landing page optimization, social media marketing, and love all things business in the tech world.

The rub is that while this job is pretty much perfect and probably the best I could do for my overall life, I am getting a relatively low salary and have been instructed by the parents to search for other options just to hopefully have choices. So this post is my solution.

I can pretty much move anywhere and most considering me a pretty eclectic guy who was seemingly born with more hours in my day than most. I've played the bagpipes, published bio research papers, won business competitions, named Mr. February in a calendar, and looove sushi.

My personal site is:

MichaelPlaterII.com

Most of my info/resume/links are there.
Startup Riot 2010 on CNN
Is it still possible to use puppet instead of chef? We have a lot of puppet manifests written.
I'm only speculating (which is dubious at best) but there are 2 probable reasons why Calacanis continues to get away with it.

1) Sequoia funded both Mahalo and Google, so there's probably some leeway granted to Mahalo in that respect

or (my personal favourite)

2) People can get away with a lot more if they're in the public eye and are loud about it. Think OJ Simpson... Calacanis is definitely one that shouts a lot louder than most to get his point across.
Amex Gives You Money It Can't Explain, Won't Take It Back
"I thought conservatives would eat that up"

Again, watch for the attached strings, which I've read include a Federal curriculum. And we've yet to see if these programs actually make it in the face of union opposition. Last time I checked 1/5 of the members of any given Democratic presidential nominating caucus are unionized teachers, and the shutdown of the D.C. voucher program, the one that provides among other things scholarships to the school Obama's children go to, does not inspire confidence.

Conservatives don't think much of temporary tax cuts, you only get changes in behavior with permanent changes in fiscal policy (and as for permanent 1-1.5 trillion dollar deficits...). People just pocket one time a few hundred dollar things like the Bush stimulus or this.

And we have a tendency to ask, "Is this worth the price?" You have to look at both sides of the ledger.

While unemployment and Medicaid may be "pass-through" in terms of mechanism, the fact remains that the states are on the hook for most of that money anyway and would have had to pay it out if not for this temporary Federal windfall.
"It amazes me how some programming language authors seem to be clueless about really major areas of our field."

I saw Larry Wall speak within the last year or so about Perl 6. His presentation on the stuff inherited from Perl 5 was solid, but when he started talking about the other things that were more functional and/or "like Haskell", there was a marked change in his confidence and depth of description. I saw him go to dinner with some people organizing the talk and when asked about what other languages he had studied besides Perl, I recall his answer was something along the lines of "well, lots of Perl is written in C." I came away with the impression that he didn't study other languages in order to improve Perl, and the more functional stuff in Perl 6 was coming from somewhere else.
This is wonderful news!
Probably not, but I'm getting good throughput and low latency in performance tests and I never see a deadlock so who cares?
I must be a robot then. -_-
A pocket projector with "freaking lasers" for under a grand
Clickable: http://MichaelPlaterII.com

OK, question: why didn't you put in this comment to make your site clickable? If I were looking to hire, I'd want someone with impressive credientials, and who showed some initiative. You've made it harder than it needed to be for me to look at your CV. What does that tell me?

Secondly, can you negotiate options with the new company? If it's a hip, happ'nin' place then options could be worth a lot of money. Getting a stake in the company could placate your parents.

Having said that, it's certainly true that you should look around, but don't waste your time. If you're going to take time to do it, do it properly. Bend yourself to the task as if the result really mattered.

It might.

ADDED IN EDIT: Why didn't you link to your earlier question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1105565
I think this is a brilliant. You know how many goofy girlfriends there are out there who would find this to be a unique, funny, yet functional gift for their boyfriends? Lots.
GeoSign.

This is the thing. The huge spotlight that guys like Aaron Wall are pointing at Mahalo right now I'm sure is making Calacanis and Co sweating bullets. For big cases like this, it's often a matter of managing perceptions and Google may definitely take action if the story becomes big enough.

The thing is, there are quite a few sites that really skirt the edge of what is acceptable. When these sites/companies are somewhat larger with lots of employees and contractors, well the effect of 'blacklisting' can affect A LOT of people's lives in a very bad way.

For the independent blackhatter, some spam side-site they spin off isn't their livelihood and won't ruin them if banned. Mahalo (and ilk) isn't just a technical matter. Of course if this story gets bigger and Google doesn't do something about it, then this sets a bad precedent for the spam-community to try and game Google. Sure Google will figure ways to deal with it, but if you're the guy dealing with the spam... well, you'd just rather it not exist from the beginning.

I'm really interested to see how this all plays out. From Google's side, Mahalo's side, etc. It's riveting stuff actually.
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(Missed this comment earlier)

There are. I'm actually a customer of Sprint IP Relay and have a personal number set up with them that's linked to my Google Talk account. However, making a relay call is generally massively frustrating for the parties on both sides of the line, so I tend to avoid it.
>I had to read through most of the site before I had a good idea of what exactly this was, but it does sound very interesting.

I did too, but I wasn't that dedicated to it and still don't know really, because I skim and read paragraphs selectively.

My suggestion is that you communicate what this is within one or two big sentences near the top.
Fold/reduce is not a primitive in Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, SML, Mercury, or any other functional language I know (though it is a standard library function in all of them). Do you have any counter-examples?

Of course all functional programmers write the same tail-recursive implementation of "reduce." That's like observing that everyone uses a loop to implement "reduce" in an imperative language. It's the simple, straightforward way to do it. (And since folds are trivially implemented in any functional language with tail recursion, why would the language designer include them as a primitive?)
They're different and complimentary. I think the ultimate goal here is to promote things that are open source and/or not proprietary.
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If I recall correctly, New York was the first to do this. There have been other states to follow, including North Carolina. I believe California is also looking at this type of legislation.
The passage of the internet sales tax means that any sales by Amazon associates inside the state would need to charge sales tax, so if they wanted to avoid the tax, they didn't have much choice but kill the program.

A similar law passed in North Carolina a few months ago: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124603593605261787.html
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Valve bringing Steam to Mac
A great rebuttal. Ad blocks are an obnoxious business condition, but they're one that can push savvy media companies into not only doing right by their readers but also finding higher CPM's than remnant ad networks that are being triaged by more nimble ad agencies anyways, leaving publications only the most gutter of advertisements.

Advertising models work. But your advertising model might not.
Looking for reviews on the application. Thanks
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Interestingly, Googling your string, in quotes gives only ads and your post. ;-)