skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's referrring to the old Lisp Machines, which were in direct competition with the UNIX machines for a while. I recall reading some old rant about the new-fangled UNIX machines by a die-hard Lisp machine hacker a long time ago (can't find it now). There was something in it about how amazingly quickly a UNIX machine could boot, which was good, since it had to do so rather often.

EDIT: it's the preface to the UNIX haters handbook, of course. A copy is up at http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/preface.html
Did rubyonrails.org get hijacked?
A Tale of Two Sieves - by Carl Pomerance
I'm really excited about node.js for instance, but I find it's still changing the API etc, makes it hard to use just yet.
Does anybody have any pointers on how to use hysteresis to make inertial scrolling work better? It was mentioned in the article but I don't see how to make it work.
What if the programmer says "I will put 9 hours of work into this and I will do this, that, use this, that because I want to anticipate this or that need"?
My brother was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma a years back and was incredibly ill for most of his chemotherapy. Doctors shuffled anti-nausea medications regularly looking for something that could keep him out of the bathroom after each therapy, but the only relief he found was marijuana.

Eventually, he got into a trial of Marinol, synthetic cannabinoids that entirely cured him of the effects of chemotherapy. And, it made him feel nice.

The more these stories like this one in Slate are told, the sooner the rest of the country will adopt medical marijuana officially and people like my brother and this autistic kid stop suffering.
I know the folks at linbblad Expeditions. drop me a line with your site and i'll see if i can help.
james of Adventurelink.com
But if the label's cut weren't so excessive, they wouldn't have gotten the same level of sales, due to a lack of budget for advertising and such.
Let me make an obligatory pitch for Clojure here: support for multi-threading, reasonably fast, and syntax in which boiler plate just melts away.
Uh, his handler could do with a closure.
How To Design Like Apple
nice! looks like a useful service! The search was pretty snappy! Was impressed.

regarding the overall design, I think that a new make-up might not hurt ;)

What's your business model (if there is one), or are u doing it just for the fun of it?

Either way, keep up the good work! cheers
So, do you think the key to Perl 6's success is to avoid that? That is, do you think it's better for Perl 6 to have a smaller, more seasoned developer community in the beginning (to establish some best-practices before the rest of us join in)?
If you want a lot more beef, read 13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak, or check out their blog, The Baseline Scenario. http://baselinescenario.com/
Don't Treat Interview Candidates Like Detainees
I would not call this article "excellent." His event handler doesn't use a closure and the first example is simply an object literal.
A manager with no technical background is very likely to dismiss refactoring or code layout as wasted time.

But they're very likely to throw the biggest "guaranteed to improve code" book they can find, with the biggest company name on it they can find (Microsoft), at all the programmers under them, whether or not it makes sense. And they're more likely to use the book dogmatically, rather than pragmatically, and much of the book seems structured to encourage this use.
Well How about naming it whatever and later refractor using Eclipse or something. I do it all the time.
"Medical" Marijuana has side effects obviously. So does risperdal, a strong anti-psychotic, which is the approved for anger & outbursts in autistic children.

Note: I have never tried Marijuana and nor do I intend to. Most people I know who do use Marijuana are the type of people aren't going far with their careers.
A look back at Summize
Independence and Large Cardinals
Please... No rockstars
Yes, regular. However, I hope this isn't gonna be a throw-away login: I've done this before with my regular account, and plan to do it every time I see a link posted where the paper is behind a paywall, both to help the discussion and as an act of civil disobedience. So I decided to create an account for this purpose.
I hope it has good Linux support.
Maybe Google is gradually becoming the rebel it always claimed to be. Easier being a rebel if you're part of the system.
You'd have to install a Windows on it to get the Flash hardware acceleration then, I'd assume.
9945 = 17!!!!

I can't stop laughing at this one.
It's expired - it happened before. Not sure why they can't renew for more than a year

Expiration Date:19-Apr-2011 22:40:29 UTC
Death By Recruiters
Alternate link in case of server troubles (I found the page load suspiciously slow):

http://aspdd.com/news/recruiting-news/how-candidate-abuse-is...
One minor point: you can use slime to get a clojure repl.
I suspect that has something to do with many men avoiding jobs that they think might call their sexual orientation into question.

i.e. Many men have an irrational hangup about their perceived sexual status when choosing jobs.

The reasons so few women go into CS has little to do with worries about their perceived orientation.

i.e. There is another issue - inferred - that keeps women out of CS classes.

You are comparing apples and oranges

Exactly what words am I putting in your mouth?
IPad Wi-Fi + 3G Models Available in US on April 30
Apple gets iPhone back
If you were expecting an exception you'd want to catch,
the situation isn't exceptional

Here your argument starts applying to all exceptions, not just checked exceptions. Consequently, the argument is obviously a hasty generalization, as breaking away from the regular flow of the code, by signaling an exceptional situation with a construction designed for that purpose, is a regular part of almost any programming language.

When is a situation exceptional? When it happens once a minute, once a day, once a year? That a situation isn't 'exceptional', according to you, doesn't mean you shouldn't want to use a special construction to signal that it is a special result. Firstly, it removes the burden to explicitly check the return value of every function call. If it returns, the function did its job. It increases the readability of code. Secondly, if you check the return value anyway, as often happens, 'special' cases of the regular return value, like 'null' or a special integer or string, always introduce problems. Problems of ambiguity, bookkeeping/documentation and unfortunate choices of the 'special' values are the most common ones. Exceptions a good solution to the problem it solves. Their downside is that they are easily abused.
New speed camera ‘SpeedSpike’ will spy on motorists with satellite technology
Thanks for the downvote ... I was more interested in what you meant in your comment, rather than proving me wrong about regexp engines.
StatSheet is hiring Ruby on Rails interns
http://www.railsinside.com/news/427-gorgeous-blonde-whos-not...
I haven't had much of real world experience until recently. I learned coding in school. We started with C then C++ and later C#(.NET) and Java (often in junction with MySQL & Oracle for which we had an extra class also). In between I remember a bit of the ancient arts of COBOL and CICS.
I got into Obj-C when I switched to Mac and tried to get my feet wet with something on my own. Though I created nothing in particular with it.

It's just recently that I started working on a real project (C#) and it's been fun so far and I'm eager to finish it and get onto the next thing.

Thank you for the sources!
Standardized tests stunt the curriculum, forcing an inflexible notion of what is worth knowing onto students. How, for example, do you have a standardized test to judge undergraduate research? Doing something absolutely absurd based on a fundamentally untrue proposition, so long as you put a lot of effort and thought into it, is an essential part of the academic endeavor. (The key of course being that there is no such thing as a fundamentally untrue proposition, and one can start with a premise generally believed false to produce a useful result which proves the premise true.)

Peer review and student evaluations together give a much better picture of a professor's ability, and recognize that professor's ability to truly challenge students, not merely parroting the general wisdom. Obviously, there are inviolable facts, and it's important to recognize them - but learning is more than understanding that which is generally accepted to be true.
http://www.twitter.com/dhh

"Getting fucked over on the Rails domain again this year by buydomains.dk. But shame is on me for not moving it last year :("
This article is more WTF than anything else. There has to be better coverage of this somewhere.
It certainly lowers my estimation of the other party when there's no follow-up or when there are brazenly disrespectful power games in the negotiation process. It's one thing not to respond to a resume submission, quite another to go silent after an interview or three.

"Organizations like the Ritz-Carlton and Wal-Mart have elevated monitoring guest satisfaction to a science and know the exact dollar cost of obtaining a customer, upsetting a customer, and losing a lifelong customer. While such evaluation is common in sales and customer support functions, it is nearly unheard of in HR functions, which often interact with a significant volume of potential customers in any given year. The impact of a poor “candidate experience” is uncalculated, unreported, and not discussed, making it quite possibly one of the largest “hidden costs” facing modern organizations."
Bill Gates talks philanthropy, science child rearing at Stanford
I love Perl. I am most fluent in Perl. I can hack things together in Perl using CPAN modules without pausing, without thinking, and I am most efficient using it. I am happiest hacking Perl at 3AM. I hate whats happened to Perl because Perl 6 has taken so long to ship. Perl 5 is outdated. Moose helps, but its gotten so bad for so long that I can't code in Perl and collaborate with anyone. I write clean Perl, but it doesn't matter - everyone else moved on years ago and disdains it. So I hack Ruby, Python, etc. because I have to.

I hope Perl 6 changes that. Is it ready to use?
What's $10 more dollars between the frustration of getting your domain back! I urge everyone to have 1 year registrations on their domains and definitely never use auto-renew!
Company selling doomsday bunkers space for 2012 post-apocalyptic survivors
I noticed most (maybe all) of the links go to wolfram math world. Out of curiosity, I compared a few entries there against Wikipedia, and I like the latter a lot better. My sample size was pretty small, though.
ObJennyMcCarthy: "I don't need your 'science'. My son is my science."
Thanks!

Yes new make-up is needed. Clearly I am not a designer and I know that. If you have ideas, I'm keen to hear them. Also, if you have favorite search engines in terms of design and/or functionality, I'd like to see them for inspiration.

Business model: there are different directions this could go. Of course the Creative Commons license is the main constraint, and I have what I think are compatible ideas. For now, it's just for fun because I actually really wished I had an OCW search engine recently, so I built one.
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
A proper and accurate accounting is important. We should know how much of the cost of treating patients who don't pay is covered by the hospital, the private insurance companies, the taxpayer, etc.

In terms of the argument about the "public good", though, I think the original point is unaffected. You wrote that private insurance "is forced to" take up the slack. Who is forcing them to treat these patients? Medical ethics does to some extent, there is what is called an "imperative to rescue". But there's also the long arm of the law - an ER that refuses to treat a critically ill patient may face criminal charges and other sanctions. Private hospitals definitely do transfer these patients to county if they can possibly get away with it, but at times they must treat and receive medicare reimbursement that doesn't cover the cost.

So we actually have a public health care plan. Right now, our public health care plan is a patchwork of regulations that encourages people with no money and no insurance to use the ER for primary care, resulting in a burden on taxpayers, private insurance, and private hospitals. A lot of people, myself included, believe that this has resulted in an extremely expensive and ineffective system of quasi-public health care. This is why I would support some form of organized public health insurance, in spite of the fact that I tend to lean toward market solutions and small government as a general principle.
Rails is my framework of choice, but man, that shatters some of my confidence :)
Also completely unscientific:

If I saw a kid out in front of his grandmother's house in the summer wearing a suit selling lemon-aid, I'd purchase it and probably add a tip:

- It's the middle of summer[1] and the kid is serious enough that he's willing to sweat it out in a suit. That's an attitude I'd respect.

That would be my instant, gut reaction, walking by that stand for the first time.

[1] I'm assuming he's not selling lemon-aid while attending school
Even if a bit newbish as other comments said, I found the article really well explained and I'm sure it helped lots of people. Good explanation, good code examples, great tips and great recommendation. Even thought I haven't learn that much in the article, I wish more article would be written like this :)
Sorry, I read your comment several times and I can't really figure you out what you are asking. Are referring to peforming R & D type work?
for well over half the world, SI Swimsuit apps are porn

Does the App Store in those countries sell those applications?
Re: scope, I think the author was mainly complaining that Javascript's scoping rules tend to err on the side of global visibility, rather than following the typical approach of scoping variables as narrowly as possible. Certainly it has scoping rules, it's just that they're unusually global for a language with Algol style syntax, and that makes it a common gotcha for people coming to JS from other places.

What's wrong with the prototype?

Nothing too bad, I suppose.

Making things private is a little bit cleaner when you use the anonymous function/module method. By default, none of the methods are visible unless you explicitly expose them, whereas with a normal Javascript object you end up jumping through hoops to make private class methods actually be private - those hoops pretty much match what you do with the module pattern anyways, so...

More importantly, the "needlessly complex and confusing" way of exposing functions (I don't necessarily disagree that it departs from "write what you mean", but I don't know that it's either too complex or confusing, it's a pretty simple pattern and often results in shorter code than prototyping would, esp. with private functions and data) is used just about everywhere when you work with other people's Javascript libraries. So it's a good thing to be familiar with it, as you're going to be looking at it almost every time you open up the source for any modern JS library.
Nexus One Multitouch problem
Love the detailed stats for removal requests, but I'm more interested in data requests.

How often are they complied with, and what data did they want? On what grounds?
I think having two DNS providers is too much of a hassle.
I use dnsmadeeasy.com (which is very reliable and inexpensive) and it works very good for my web sites.
It's only denigrating if you yourself feel that porn is a bad association. If not, it's just stating a pretty reasonable suggestion: if having porn apps is important to you, buy a phone that supports porn apps. Don't buy one that doesn't.

The subtext is that Apple is willing to lose customers over not being in the porn business, and he's willing to state as much. Maybe this could be seen as denigrating if you suppose that they probably won't lose very many at all over it, suggesting the availability of porn apps on Android does not really add much value to the platform. But that seems a bit indirect.

You'll note he did not say "people who want porn are bad people" or "people who want Android phones are bad people" or "porn is the only thing Android is good for".
Seattle Meets Boston: Lessons from Searchandise Commerce
Overall a decent list. But any such list is incomplete without Adafruit's spirograph card: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/05/25/adafruit-business-ca...
"The program is only half finished, and if I don't think you're paying me fairly, I won't be motivated to finish it."

Wow, this guy made 150k while he was about to make 750k from the Thunderscan stuff? Incredible stories.
> There is no “Lorem Ipsum” used as filler for content, either

There is here: http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ (look above "Streamlined word processing")
This paragraph from the original paper explains beautifully how little benefit brain-training really provides:

"To illustrate the size of the transfer effects observed in this study, consider the following representative example from the data. The increase in the number of digits that could be remembered following training on tests designed, at least in part, to improve memory (for example, in experimental group 2) was three-hundredths of a digit. Assuming a linear relationship between time spent training and improvement, it would take almost four years of training to remember one extra digit. Moreover, the control group improved by two-tenths of a digit, with no formal memory training at all."

This is far from the first study of its kind. People have been trying for decades to find any sort of training task that can improve general cognitive ability, and there is simply no evidence that one exists. Tests with sufficiently high g-loading are virtually impervious to any form of preparation or training. The closest anyone has ever come to finding one that works is the discovery that the dual n-back task improves scores on Raven's Progressive Matrices (which is very much the gold standard of g-loaded tests), and that's highly suspect given that both n-back and RPM involve the very idiosyncratic task of holding three-by-three matrices in working memory.

As important as discovering a general IQ-raising task would be to psychology, there's nothing especially depressing about one not existing. Remember: You can still learn things. All this research tells you is that if you want to get good at some particular task, you have to train either at that task specifically, or something that's in some way related to it. Playing Tetris, memorizing chess openings, or practicing Bach's Goldberg Variations is simply not going to help you become a better programmer. For that, you need to program.
a series of online tasks for a minimum of ten minutes a day, three times a week, for six weeks.

How much benefit can one expect from three hours of investment? If this were about, say, weight resistance training, would you expect to have bigger muscles after this program?
Just to be clear, the Android Market doesn't allow porn apps either (see the developer content policy here: http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html).
But it is relatively easy for an Android user to load apps from outside the Android Market. One of these apps is a porn market: http://phandroid.com/2009/11/27/android-porn-market-from-mik...

Bit of a tempest in a teapot really, since any user who could figure out how to download and install mikandi (or the equivalent) could also just search for any of the NUMEROUS porn web sites that work just fine on either Android or iPhone.
Rotten Rejections -- The Letters that Publishers Wish they'd never Sent
Lisp Machines were never that much in direct competition with UNIX machines as such. They were competing with UNIX + LISP. Research labs who programmed in Lisp bought Unix systems plus a Lisp environment (like Allegro CL) or bought a Lisp system (like Allegro CL) for their existing Unix environment. But Unix systems were used for quite different things than Lisp programming or running Lisp apps.

When Lisp Machines lost in the market, the Lisp users moved to UNIX + Lisp. Companies like Franz and Harlequin/LispWorks that came from that market still exist today.

Lisp was always used on different systems. When Lisp Machines were 'popular' (we are talking about less then ten thousand machines that were ever build and sold), Lisp was used on Windows, Macs, Mainframes, Unix and other operating systems.

I should also mention that almost all Lisp Machines were single user personal workstations - initially specially aimed mostly at AI programmers.
She stole my domain last month when my registrar didn't notify me of expiration. The first time I saw that smirk, I wanted to ring her neck. http://jstaten.com
Large map: http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/transparency.html
If you think a site is temporarily under control of someone other than its usual trusted maintainers ('hijacked'), please don't promote more visits to the site with a link.

The site should be visited less, not more, until the question is resolved -- if your theory is true, the 'hijackers' may have both malicious intent and unpatched browser-linked flaws to exploit against visitors.
I agree " .. without a clear guideline from the contractor .. "

Our team uses this technique attached with an SLA on larger ( multiple updates/upgrades ) backend coding projects very often.

The client pays what they want for the base solution. After a short performance review and trial period usually 2-3 months, they sign up for an extended Service Licence Agreement.

Most clients know there budget, so the smart ones modularize the work to be completed beforehand and outsource anything that can not be done in-house/for less. If they had not setup it up this way we do it for them, so they can actually rate the performance.

So essentially we create a continuous revenue stream, were under ordinary circumstances it would have been a hit-and-run were we lose out.

The idea is not new we've been using this strategy for over 2 years now, its the one of the major ways we were able to continue earning decent profits during a major recession and provide the services that clients were happy with.

Infact, 90% of the clients who started with us 2 years ago have renewed for 2010. We take the onus of providing fault proof solutions and the stress that can initially terrify the client/project manager/accountant.
Related: Yahoo issued a takedown request when their guidelines and price sheet for "data requests" leaked in 2009:

http://cryptome.org/0001/yahoo-cryptome.htm
Site is back up. All the hits probably crashed the server.
http://thefreelancery.com/
Drupal Development Proliferating as Version 7 Nears
Drupal 7 still needs work, with more than 100 bugs needing to be fixed. But Acquia announced offerings this week to drive Drupal deployments while Drupal 7 gets closer.
PensionsFirst Delivers Secure and Scalable Web Application Access with F5
A nice little insight into the writing process, to boot.

The answers to certain questions have value in furthering the story you want to tell. Other kinds of questions do not. Focus on the former, ignore the latter.

Obvious, I suppose. But I also imagine it's vital to keep this in mind as you write a piece of fiction, in order to keep yourself on track.
Jobs is also lying and I'm sure he knows it. Personally I'm not sure I see how that's a good move. The Android Market doesn't allow porn apps either (see the developer content policy here: http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html).

The bandwidth consumpsion argument is also total bullshit. Do a quick google/bing search for "iphone porn". There are a lot of porn sites ready, willing, and able to stream porn videos to Mobile Safari.
Keep clear of VCs that think they're or behave like rockstars, but have no talent or track record.