skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still. You're likely to incur at least a few milliseconds of latency on the HTTP call, and most "eval" implementations I've worked with are prohibitively slow. I haven't benchmarked other languages, but I was using it in a Groovy app until I realized each call to eval was taking over 100ms. Even granting that Groovy is a dog, parsing from a string is non-trivial.

At that point I'd ask myself whether it was worth the trouble.
Check out http://bookingly.com/help/manager_trial as it may be what you're looking for.
Not so much an investment...Come up with some crazy idea to do with the money, do it, then write a book on it.

Anyone remember the guy who sold everything he owned, went to Vegas and put all the cash he had on black, then wrote a book. Might have been a documentary too.

Then there was KLF who burned a million quid but I don't see how they made their money back.
It sure makes the writers sound like asses.
People using bookingly.com to accept bookings have the option of adding a booking widget to their site, which lets people make bookings with them directly on their site.
You know what? I don't get it either and it's ugly at the moment. But, I didn't get Twitter. Hell, I still don't get Twitter.

And who would've thought Facebook could ever replace MySpace? Well, ok MySpace was bad... really really bad in a neo-early 90's bad graphic designer kind of way. So maybe THAT was predictable. ;)

But I think "pg" put it best when he said (paraphrasing) that: by definition, you can't really predict any new idea. Most new good ideas initially appear really bad.

The point is that it's still too early to decide whether it's a pig, even if it needs lipstick.
People (not economists) always blame the crisis on bad lending. That's like saying the guy who had full-blown AIDS died of pneumonia. It's true in a literal sense, but it's not meaningful in that you're blaming the symptom rather than the disease.
So what you're REALLY providing isn't a quote-aggregation service, but rather an intelligent method of showing people content from around the internet based on how much they like a topic.

It's like Pandora but for news.

EDIT: community-powered Pandora but for news?
Short sellers got rough treatment during the crisis, much of it undeserved. But we should not lump all short sellers together.

Fear mongers do exist, but they only thrive in a low information environment, such as a panic. If banks and other companies provided, or were compelled to provide better ongoing information, they wouldn't be exposed to rumors in the first place. They probably wouldn't see their stocks overinflated either, due to the actions of legitimate short sellers.
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Birthday encodes a lot more than one bit of information. The above example was a series of factors that reduced the identified population in half.
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Great find! I know that there is one other scream that I hear constantly in movies but I have no idea if it has a name... I'll have to make sure to keep an ear out for it!
I don't know about the case in point (in terms of listening) but I've read the IPhone SDK and Apple devs are just playthings in Apple's realm. Such a one-sided agreement it isn't funny.

So I'd figure that the OP has a point in saying that MS > Apple for developer welfare.
Hi there - thanks for taking the time to look and provide some feedback. No API plans yet. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a "confidential" client list - the list of clients for a business using bookingly.com is never made available to anybody other than that business owner in bookingly. Check out the free trial of the pro version to have a look.
I still see reel-change marks ('cigarette burns') fairly often these days! I guess most of the cinemas you're going have digital projectors?
Hmm - I obviously need to improve some descriptive text in that email - thanks for the feedback. People receiving bookings made through it definitely don't need to create an account. They can just receive the email with the iCalendar attachment, save it in their calendar app as usual and continue on their merry way.
Be more specific. What exactly would you have had in, say, Python, that you didn't get in Scheme? What wheels did you reinvent?
Why is that a good thing?

Essentially what you're saying is that Erlang allows you to make idiotic mistakes?
This is a result of the colour constancy effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy
So I bought my HTC Hero with version 1.5 and HTC has been promising the upgrade "this month" ever sense i bought it 5 months ago. I essentially went with the HTC(which i bought from the US and had it shipped over, by the way) because they were more developer friendly than the rest.

Sense UI is good looking, but i am not sure if its a good enough reason to stick to older platforms. Especially when the APIs on the older platform suck.

Having said that, there are a few enhancements that are integrated with the Sense UI that are not in the mainline release(which makes you wonder why they're not). So its not a complete loss.

The phone definitely has its faults from a design perspective(who's bright idea was it to put the speaker on the back) so for my next purchase I will reconsider where i get my set from.
in most cases there is also a fee for registering as a Marketplace vendor

Is that true? I couldn't find that anywhere. I think Microsoft will be more open about the certification process - they have more experience with it - driver certification with WHQL goes on for a long time already
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Your request is in my Jira.
I can imagine a sci-fi plot in the not too distant future where augmented reality becomes a part of daily life, so much so that instead of buying pretty things, people just buy basic objects in real world and upload hi-res skins for their objects that others can see. Instead of buying a $200 lamp, I can just buy a $10 one and upload the corresponding skin to aug-real network. When my friends visit my home, they can choose to see the real-life version of the aug version. Most people will end up just defaulting to aug version because it's so much prettier. This is no different than Myspace profiles and extending them to the real-world.
That would be absolutely awesome. Of course, in principle, there's nothing preventing researchers from doing that now. I think that being able to actually manipulate things on the same website that the data exists on will be key to bringing "open source papers" into the academic mainstream.
Or 8 or 6 on the craps table... Heck even the pass line...
Just initiating a page turn by tapping the right half of the screen would be a dramatic improvement over paper.
GE can lawyer up pretty fast, most individuals will do exactly what the IRS tells them since they can freeze your accounts and put liens on you without a court date. As I pointed out elsewhere, this isn't driven by logic or the IRS, it is driven by lobbying money.
Thanks to mds for the great link! http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mds
I only count 3 types of email, I have yet to spot an example of the 'ideal email' in the wild!
I guess I'm a little old school, but the first thing I do is build some datasets. Either from the legacy app or via requirements if it's a greenfield. Seems boring but for me it's simple work and it gets the creative juices flowing. Then it becomes a problem / challenge which is of course interesting.
Notice I said "if the US or UK defaults" not "if the US's or UK's rating goes down". Rating loss isn't really isn't relevant to you if you already own a bond. However, defaulting is.

And yes, if you do want to prepare for US/UK default, the best thing you could do is "diversify into firearms and canned goods".
It was far from an easy decision and I never felt great about it. This is fair criticism and I accept it.

However, I don't feel the same way about your original response. The side project wasn't mine to share, and calling it "treacherous" takes it way too far.
Yes. Exactly. The quote gives them a sample of the target material so they can decide whether to take time to consume the whole thing.
If the logic of your program is:

On event, do some big, long calculation.

Why should you need to write the code differently from that? It's nice that the language/environment handles things for you, rather than manually dividing things up into little chunks.
"Then again, we are talking about one week later. He had to know that he had other irons in the fire and probably wouldn't be involved in the company much longer. So, yeah, this actually does sound kinda nasty."

The side project was a Facebook application. It grew from about 10,000 users to more than a million from interview time to the week the season started (about a month). By the time the season started I had my doubts (along with my cofounders), but I thought I could tough it out and do both. I was wrong and made the hard choice to leave.
This is a great idea... And has given me an idea for a fun project.
I wasn't making a causation verses correlation fallacy, i just thought it was interesting.
thanks ;) I would have preferred; stop, collaborate and listen but had a feeling this had been used before.
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You're acting like Bernankes friends are sitting around at a poker table, when in fact they are the house and we are all playing blackjack.
Yeah, I like the outline of your product idea. Looking forward to trying it out.
Then you shouldn't be focusing on the quote itself. The quote is just an efficient preview of the material.

Focus on accurately giving people news they want, and make THAT the selling point.

I'd pay for something like this.
I learned Tcl back in college (say 15 years ago) and have not used it since. However, while investigating things like EM and Twisted, I for some reason thought of Tcl. I (and others [1]) asked on the Tcl mailing list about creating a "C10K" server in Tcl but unfortunately Tcl does not have support for epoll, kqueue, etc. at this time.

[1] http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/tcl-core/37509...
I like your quote, but why does it end with a link to the '90s?
I maybe need to clarify it: I'm not talking about the iPad apps request (this one also apply), but another (really) bigger one.
I was Siqi's cofounder both times we applied.

Siqi is correct; we didn't believe he was being unethical. The 3 of us agonized over the situation for quite a while, and understood his decision to leave, especially given that the side project wasn't completely his to share. It was a really tough spot for all of us, and I know he didnt make the decision lightly.
Not that it invalidates the article's points, but there's a certain degree of irony in writing a blog article about how no one uses Scheme and then posting it on a Scheme-powered website. :)
If your program is:

Show a calculator.

Why should you need to write the code to do each individual part of the calculator?

I disagree, dividing up the work yourself into chunks means you retain complete control of when your code executes. That actually decreases the complexity of your code, since you know when everything will execute.
Nice try, blaming those dumb students for an education system that's failing them. The problem is they don't do a reasonable job of teaching the basics. That's why poor minorities in DC and other places are demanding school vouchers-- but as long as teacher unions care more about their jobs than students not shit is going to happen.

Education has been going to hell for the past 30 years (or longer) so please don't delude yourself into thinking anything is going to magically change. The only change will be new legislation that restricts self-funded alternative education. (Maybe you've already noticed governments trying to shutdown food co-ops under the guise of "public health")
Architectural constructs
I would argue that the "parasitic" short sellers who are information poor should not be viewed differently than "long sellers" who are information poor... and are generally considered perfectly acceptable.

A "panic" is just the price decreasing version of a bubble...
Feature brainstorming: Can it listen to the music the user is playing and figure out where in the piece the student is playing and scroll along as it's being played?
Sounds like you've never lived in a communist country; where the government decides there shall be one and only one marketplace for a certain set of goods/services.

You are severally missing the point of the problem with Apple's App Store. It has absolutely nothing to do with what they will or will not allow in their store and what developers must do to get their apps published. It has nothing to do with Apple deciding 30% is the price of admission.

It has everything to do with Apple ensuring there can be only one market. This is the antithesis of a free market.
The document is, as might be expected, fairly uninteresting. The main take home messages are:

a) The US DoD classifies Wikileaks as a "threat", or potential threat.

b) This seems to be primarily because troop sizes/equipment/movements might be or have already been leaked. Such information may give the upper hand to potential enemies.

c) There are some complains about material on Wikileaks being inaccurate, or edited in such a way as to give a misleading impression of events (a fairly standard complaint).

d) They propose trying to out/scapegoat/make an example of anyone who is identified as a wikileaker in the hope that that this will deter openness in government, although so far it seems that they have been unsuccessful in this endeavor.

e) Wikileakers seem to be a fairly competent bunch, adhering to security best practices in the handling, anonymising and release of documents, but may still be vulnerable to cyber attacks of various kinds.
When we're talking about that much data, the risk isn't just personal any more. It's not that they'll embarrass you with your search words from 10 years ago or let burglars know when you're shopping for plane tickets for Honolulu.

It's about what that amount of data about a whole country 's population could be used for.
If you want to know how other languages could work, in the sense of an OO version of the lambda-cube, read Cardelli and Abadi's Theory of Objects: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0387947752
The lead sentence is

Middle-class kids are taught from an early age that they should work hard and finish school. Yet 3 out of 10 students dropped out

Anyone catch the logical and rhetorical flaw ?

First, we talk about how MIDDLE class kids are taught not to drop out.

Then we seemlessly move to all kids.

And...surprise! Some of them drop out.

Because, duh!, not all kids are middle class kids.

After reading that much stupid in the first half of the first sentence I stopped reading the article.
the G1 runs 1.6 kind of sluggish already, how much worse is it?
As a photographer, this post is way full of crap - look at famous photographs, and you will see the exact same thing even before the days of Photoshop.

These colors are used because they work, and they project a certain effect on your images. Blaming this on the advent of computers is disingenuous - photographers have been shooting at Golden Hour for generations to capture the contrasty orangeness since God knows when.
a) Clever.
b) Cringe!

I really like Ruby as a language, but the ecosystem is just not up to snuff, which is why I've gone back to Python. The docs are complete, the standard implementation is rock solid and only getting better (cf. unladen-swallow), and I can interface with C stuff easily (cf. Cython). I'm looking forward to Ruby maturing.
One of his quotes on wikipedia:

"When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered"

Its funny how this quote and the things he says on the letter directly contradict themselves.
Honest question: is there a purely event-driven I/O framework (no threads anywhere)?

The one that a lot of people have gotten excited about recently is Node.js and that uses threads for file I/O (libeio).
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Being thought of as a "subordinate" (I mention this, because he talks about programmers as being subordinates).

Am I the only person on earth that rails against this? I trade my time for money, but I am no-one's "subordinate". To me, a manager is someone who makes sure I can get my work done and checks on the overall progress.

I guess I'm asking for a mighty downvoting but I really want to know if others think its okay and why its okay to be a subordinate (especially when the superordinates are so often less than impressive human beings).
Poland

I was a bit imprecise. Not equivalent of whole FED but equivalent of part of FED that makes decisions about monetary policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_Policy_Council

In Poland monetary policy is understood as keeping prices stable not as attaining a set of objectives oriented towards the growth and stability of the economy.
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A funny thing is that I don't actually look at Karma almost at all. It's sort of a game to me to see when I break certain milestones, but I have no idea how much karma other posters have.

I like to read the posts, figure out if they contribute to the discussion, and up/down-vote accordingly. If a post requires verification, then perhaps I'll go dig a little deeper, but on HN I'm inclined to trust that most people are who they say they are in their posts.
That post links to this one: http://www.squarefree.com/2004/03/05/color-constancy-illusio...

I knew the gray-tone checkerboard but this is a very surprising illusion. I opened the image in Photoshop and had a hard time believing the effect: http://screenjel.ly/oHDkBcDFnoQ (video, no sound)
and this confusion is exactly why I tend to use .cxx for C++ sources
Yes. You are on-track.

Sorry for the delay. I'm still stunned from this other conversation I was having with alilja. They really described my app better than I could myself.

But yes, the idea is Community-Driven Pandora for news running on an iPad (or similar device)
EventMachine doesn't thread unless you ask it to. I use EventMachine in Ruby and libevent in C with nary a mutex in sight.
Why flip pages at all?

I like yan's suggestion of detecting the music in the app and scrolling along as the person plays.
community-powered Pandora but for news = reddit...?
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The Real Player installer, over the course of maybe five to ten years, was so pushy about installing extra, unwanted software and sending private data that it garnered a reputation that caused people to be really careful when installing it, if they installed it at all. It is not really a perfect example for people actually opting-out, because I think one of the many criticisms was that it was often either not possible or extremely difficult to determine how to opt-out of its features (sending titles of files being played, annoying message center and ad popups, packaged additional software). That said, check out the Wikipedia page for further details.
Found it... http://dishevelled.net/elisp/rainbow-parens.el

update: Argh! My eyes!
Will change the colors. Also thinking of hiring a designer to take a look at layout.

DOCTYPE is hosed. Looks like a bug in the JS.
I also dropped out of high school (and never bothered to get a GED; I went to college for a while and then dropped out to do a startup, so I've ended up with neither diploma).

It's kind of fun being able to put "high school dropout" on forms, while not being a deadbeat.
Just the first thing that came to mind.
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Then maybe you should take a gander at WinMo7's agreement. They're doing the same thing as Apple: You can only install apps via their version of the App Store.
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This would require me to figure out in advance what public data links me to what private-but-anonymized data. We know about the IMDB-Netflix connection because it was pointed out after the fact. What other links are there that I can't predict? What if I can be identified by which nights I stay home to watch a movie? Generalizing, the problem with anonymized data sets is that it is very, VERY hard to say with confidence that the data cannot be connected to a client.

That kind of data should not be released without consent.
I found Amit Rathore's essay 'Against all Oddities' to be very helpful in bridging the gap.

http://epistemologic.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/againstoddi...
No. Things that are not Erlang turn you into a human compiler, forced to manually chop your code into pieces for the pleasure of the computer. Erlang allows you to actually write things without doing the chopping up the scheduler should do.

Event-based libraries are great hacks on top of weak languages/runtimes that allow those weak languages to hobble forward into the present, but they shouldn't be confused for the right approach in the future. I do hope they don't become trendy.

Of course, look for them to become trendy, then for one or more of them to rediscover the pleasure of actually writing code in a straightforward manner, so they will provide you with a preprocessor that tries to do the chopping up for you, but still won't solve the problem of doing too much work in one timeslice. Then they'll rediscover that cooperative multitasking was abandoned years ago for good reason.

You know, there's nothing new under the sun, but sometimes you just wonder... this much hype around cooperative multitasking? Seriously?
Probably the biggest difference is the software library for Android was fairly small 1.x to 1.5 to 1.6 and backwards compatibility wasn't really a problem. Today there are quite a few 2.0+ only apps out there including many of Google's own first party applications. There's a larger group of apps that kinda work on 1.x but don't seem to be extensively tested on 1.x so crashing/bugs start to become a problem. So if you go buy a new Android phone running 1.5 or 1.6 you will almost certainly run into problems with third party applications.
> You should try Clojure.

Too late; I'm in the Ruby community and things are just fine here. :) But thanks for mentioning Clojure; I didn't realize its syntax was so Scheme-like. That's news to me. :)
I think that's the most wretched tech article I've read this month.
Reddit -> little boxes with items in them. Choose your box

QF -> one big box. Each item is highly-tagged. System chooses combination of tags based on your previous behavior

--Also--

Reddit -> Consume based on community score and titles (which can both be wildly gamed)

QF -> Consume based on previewing a piece of the material