skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The target of the tutorial is for people that come from mainstream languages (C/C++/C#/Java/Javascript/Python) and would like to learn a functional programming language, or want to play with erlang but don't like the syntax

Recently, I saw a tutorial somewhere (maybe Scheme) where there were different pages for people coming from different languages. That's a lot of effort, but its a thought. So someone from Python can see some typical python sample, and how to do it in your language. Same for other languages.

Typically, we wish to see how to do something in a new language that we used to do in the earlier one. Going from Java to Ruby, I was always looking for this till I actually came across a blog post meant for Java programmers moving to Ruby. (For example, how to do the main() in Ruby).
I have to wonder if this article seems melodramatic now because of how much education has changed in the past 40 years. Baby boomers filtering into positions of power in education and government I'm sure has had a dramatic liberalizing effect compared to the types of people who held those positions when this article was written. It should also be noted that the social and economic order described in the article no longer even exists. His descriptions of the titans of industry like IBM and Bank of America demanding uniform human robots to man their industrial apparatus seems foreign to a modern perspective where most jobs are created by small businesses and corporations no longer need armies of semi-skilled white collar workers to run their back office.
I should have been more clear at first, but my idea is going beyond that. Their web app is sad, perhaps in an attempt to make it work in too many arenas at once. No push notifications, difficult UI, lumping messages together but required scrolling through every message just to read the newest etc. I could go on, but the point is made.
We hope every investment we make is the next Google or Microsoft, in the sense of growing very big. Remember that when Microsoft started, it was two undergrads making Basic interpreters for what were then called "hobbyists."

I don't think the majority of companies we fund would be better off if some of the founders had MBAs, no. It would at best not be harmful. What makes startups succeed, at our stage, is building products users like, and I have seen no evidence that an MBA gives you any advantage there. In fact I've probably seen evidence to the contrary.
Correct day 1 to day 365.
Jay Leno is on HN?
You would really suggest that this training offers nothing of value?

Pretty much. Early stage startups don't need to know anything about finance, business law, and management. All they need to know about IP I can tell them in 5 minutes. As for marketing, it depends what the schools teach, but startup marketing is so unusual and varies so much depending on the product that I would be very surprised if a B school class had anything useful to say about it.
There is no such thing as good hiring, only good firing
http://scripty2.com/demos/cards/ You may find this library interesting if you end up choosing to port to html5
Visual Basic - VB .Net - If your system 32Bit or 64Bit
Citigroup: No fat fingers here
Ask HN: private "email" campaigns for startups software?
We're developing a new project right now and to get more involved with the real people we'd like to selectively email some individuals (example: medical bloggers, who may be interested in the product and help us make it better). I assume we'd have to collect over thousand of emails over time. Obviously it's hard to manage this amount of contacts. Sure, I'll be able to read all the replies, but what I'd like to be able to do is to store the relevant info along with them: names, locations, occupation, number of days it took them to reply, some notes about their replies ("not very interested" or "annoyed" or "excited"), then effectively retrieve and use the contacts again if they qualify and send back some prepared "thank you" emails or other slightly customized replies. Well, you get the picture. Spreadsheet does not really solve the automation problem here.

Any software for these purposes?
In short, a race condition in Windows.
When my friends try to get me to switch to Ubuntu I always have a hard time describing why I dont wanto. It's hard to pinpoint when looking at all the individual components of the Ubuntu desktop but this sentence really sums it up well.

On the flip side, I recently tested a full restart of 10.04 from Ubuntu desktop to Ubuntu desktop. took exactly 14 seconds. Incredible.
Expert Argues Colo. Teen Murder Suspect Daniel Gudino Was 'Sleepwalking'
For all those people that consider this a good idea, have you ever really considered what high-frequency traders do for the market? High-frequency is a significant source of liquidity. Had high-frequency not been place during the financial crisis, the drops would have been much more significant than what we actually saw. Congress and the American public don't seem to understand this. If you pull the plug on high-frequency trading, you are pulling the plug on automated market makers, and the less market makers there are, the wider the spreads will be and the more volatile the markets will be. Now, I'm not saying that all high-frequency is market-making, but it surely a significant portion of it.
Is there a tutorial or getting started or some examples around ?
Does C99 imply it will compile with gcc (current builds on OSX, I think gcc 4.x).
The assignee name and "address" is spelled wrong on the page.

Also it would be incredibly awesome to have seamless passwords. Just pick up and go. But of course, I imagine there'd be times when it wouldn't be able give accurate consistent measurements? It seems like a rather delicate operation, i.e prone to problems.
Here's a much better solution for stabilizing wall st. and our financial system: end fractional reserve banking. It's completely unnecessary for financial intermediaries to rely on the fractional reserve system to function and generate returns, look at venture capital firms and hedge funds. It is an unsustainable business model injecting a lot of the root fear into the market that is propped up by the federal subsidy of Deposit Insurance in order to function. FDIC is nothing more than a subsidy for banks to take on unnecessary risk and arbitrage the yield curve by making riskier loans.
Can anyone weigh in on this? Is this as big a deal as it makes out to be?
I am currently part of a start-up, Favetop.com, which offers direct site searching through just the click of a site icon. I've found it to be quite convenient for searching sites directly and much better than constantly adding site prefixes or visiting the actual websites to search. You may want to give it a try and see if it helps you out.
Maybe it would work perfectly - until you were panicky and the adrenaline affected your heart rhythm. Like during that sales demo, or when calling 911.
IPad on target to reach $1 Billion in revenue in less than 120 days
Is this how 37signals handles feature requests?
Absurd. Cardiac 'patterns' change over time, and altered with heart disease/dysfunction. Bio-medical based authentication must rely on non-changing biological characteristics.

<sarcasm>Gotta hand it to them for covering the bases, though.</sarcasm>
Write a Essay on Leadership
Most people want to write an essay that will impact the reader. When youresearch essay topics, hopefully you will come up with something that will interest and teach the reader at the same time.
I think that's the point. They check for a redirection and show an interstitial. They've white-listed a few other shortener services (the ones they know are redirecting to actual sites and presumably do their own redirection checks on)... but as far as I understand it any url that you try to shorten that does an immediate 301 gets the interstitial first.

If they let urls with redirects on them they can inadvertently bit.ly link directly to a malware site. They don't want to do that at all and take measures to prevent it. Checking urls against malware lists and not allowing redirects are just a couple, I'm sure there are more.

As for being misleading in the interstitial itself... I don't think so. They've updated it to be more clear about the issues with this link:

* Some URL-shorteners re-use their links, so bit.ly can't guarantee the validity of this link.

* Some URL-shorteners allow their links to be edited, so bit.ly can't tell where this link will lead you.

* Spam and malware is very often propagated by exploiting these loopholes, neither of which bit.ly allows for.
Polite money transfers
After tax, the cost just went up to $125mm

That's only assuming the company is trading at $1/share, which Cuban's proposal is saying should be taxed at $0.05/share, raising the cost to $105mm. The actual tax will be dependent on the valuation of the company divided by the number of shares there are. It's not a straight 25% tax across the board.
Does adrenaline really affect rhythm, or does it simply make your heart beat with the same rhythm, faster? I thought any change in heart rhythm was considered an arrhythmia.
More like back to the stone age. Look at the Indian stock market: they have transaction taxes on the order of .01-0.1% and the bid-ask spreads are huge. A tax like this would make it even more difficult for average people to get a fair price.
I realize that many here need to plan for extremely bursty or massively scalable setups, but for 99% of applications AWS seems lousy in terms of SLA and overpriced for what you get.

You can get premium colocation for a 1U or 2U server for $200 a month, ie. $2400 per year.

This premium colocation comes with phone and email support for most basic Linux and networking tasks, 100% network and power uptime guarantees, etc.

AWS does not offer much support unless you pay more, and as we have seen in the past, they do have outages.

A server from Aberdeeninc.com (price for 1 server without negotiation or shopping around), far superior to an xlarge, is about $3100 including shipping (Stirling 169 1U, 2x 5504 CPUs (8 cores), 24GB RAM, 2x 500GB Seagate 32MB cache).

Meanwhile an xlarge RS will cost almost $4k per year.

So, over 3 years:
AWS xlarge: $12K

Premium colo + 1U server: $7200 plus $3100 = $10.3K .

And that is for just one instance.

I would be very interested in hearing real-world testing results of what an AWS compute unit actually ends up being comparable to vs. a relatively modern CPU like the quad core Opterons and Xeons.
Mint Is Now Banking on Android
Ideally, passwords should change over time as well. If the change is continuous rather than abrupt, it can be picked up on, and the password steadily changed with the pattern (you'd be let in with an 98% match, which would then overwrite the previous pattern. A 95% match would ask for secondary identification first). Then, if someone tries to use a previous recording of your heartbeat to unlock your computer, it won't work!
How an unfixed Net glitch could strand you offline
Plus, it discriminates against the nonliving.
I can't believe nobody has brought up the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster
Somehow, hackernews handles certain transparent caches badly -- it's the only site I use which has a problem. I'm in Kuwait, unlike 100% of the other hackernews users, and can work around it using a proxy, but periodically I show as logged out, or expired link, or wrong user.
Charles Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway): Elementary Worldly Wisdom
Not only that he actually starts fixing the problem.
Http://xat.com/wampir_club
That's true for Monday as well, which I've always thought was cool:

月曜日 = Monday

月 = Moon, 曜日 = day of the week
Strangely enough the title got changed.

Is there a future to a project like this today? Are people developing apps for character based terminals ? Any point in continuing to develop this ?
bit.ly is not doing right. cut the crap, fix it.
SURACOACHING.COM
An Early Look At Twitter Annotations
It is interesting to note that common users can easily use goo.gl by using google toolbar's share function.
International iPad Pricing Detailed
I would not recommend doing it in the history classes though. In my school we had a great history class throughout high school. It taught me analytical thinking and processing of events to come up with a strategy. Studying history is as important as studying math or physics. The latter two are basic sciences, but the former expands your mind.

If you find the history class boring, try doing this. Instead of reading up all about and even in history in your textbook try to read one half (or a quarter if you feel overly adventurous) and then try to reason out what would you have done and why. Then read the other part and match your thinking with what actually happened. My history teacher used to do this type of exercises with us on a regular basis. This improved our critical thinking and ability to decide on strategies to tackle events in life.
seems very nice!
Remarkable WWF poster campaign against Global Warming
David Heinemeier Hansson: Unlearn your MBA (Stanford Lecture)
Totally agree. At the same time, that is one ugly blog site.
Curators of the Real-Time Web: Distilling the chatter ...
Can Internet at last kill radio?
This reminds me of the issue with a laptop like one of the Sony VAIO series. The hardware is super nice, and the software would be decent, but you would be screwed if you ever wanted to upgrade or reinstall. Finding the correct drivers was a challenge.

Not many companies really understand that even though the sale of the device is over, your responsibility to the customer isn't. That customer will expect you to support what they want to do until they feel like they have gotten their money's worth out of it.

With a lot of people, upgrading or reinstalling windows from scratch was a standard practice and they expected to be able to do it. I think the same is true of android customers.
I was wondering that same thing myself. As the technology gets better the chances of being able to "download" a gun and print it out become higher.
Remind HN: Today (9th of May) is Mother's Day in US
I know we tend to drown in all the tech, entrepreneurship, fresh ideas, ipad news, facebook privacy issues and the lack of HN search. But let's not forget our mothers :)

Give them a call, a present, a longer hug than usual or whatever suits you (and your mom)

I know, mother's day is just one huge commercialized drama nowadays but take it from me (or don't); most mothers -do- care about this day!
I've typed many a bit.ly link into a web browser directly from my phone. It's easy to do because they're so short.
> Implement a tax that requires people to actually buy stock for reasons other than its price.

Huh?

I buy stock to make money. I make money when I buy at a lower price than I sell said stock. Note that price plays a role in both transactions.

Serious question - who buys stock for reasons other than price expectations?
I have to agree, it's absolutely ridiculous.

Using cardiac patterns for login are also prone to "denial of service attacks". Because if I scare someone, suddenly they will be unable to access their phone.

Regardless, just reading through this patent, I find it difficult/impossible to believe that there isn't prior art for this.
Jonathon Lethem on his Philip K. Dick Obsession
Ask HN: How has HN resisted Eternal September for so long?
I began using reddit shortly after it began,it lasted quite well for a time, and with the Digg influx went downhill from there.

But HN still feels mostly true to when it began, howso?
I believe some LaTeX to HTML converters do this. You also get the added benefit of being able to provide a PDF version, or publishing it as a book, with minimal extra effort.
You can also directly search sites using Favetop with just one click of a site icon.
The anatomy of a privacy meme
I was thinking today about a mouse that could detect heart rate, in the same manner as a cardio machine detects it. I don't know why you would want to use it as a password, however it could be useful in biofeedback.
What happens when something in the middle redirects infinitely, is slow, or is down? Does the tweet have to wait until canonicalization to show up? How long are people willing to wait? Is it acceptable to not be able to link to a site unless it's up?

As OpenID implementors have noticed, these issues cannot simply be ignored. Making an untrusted HTTP request is tricky business.
I think most people want long URLs to be shortened, but don't want short URLs to be re-shortened. But there's no checkbox for that.
But not as easy as finding the tweet in your twitter client and just clicking.
Ask HN: Keeping track of support requests/emails/tickets
The last discussion on applications to keep track of support requests seems to be around 2 years ago. I wonder if there have been any new companies or applications that have sprung up since then.

I'm looking for a clean application to keep track of issues and support requests with good reporting capabilities.

What are you using for this?
Charlie Munger is one of my few heroes. A great all-around thinker, about more than just investing. I highly recommend a dive into his mind via these two books:

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger = http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578644283 = a deep read, mostly focused on cognitive biases

Poor Charlie's Almanack = http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578645018 = a big coffee table book of his speeches and essays, good for leaving on the kitchen table to read over a meal

I think if you order the books directly from Charlie Munger's company, the proceeds go to charity: http://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/
It might be just me but this august 2009(?!) article is stating the obvious.

Let's put this another way: "design for the state of the art systems".
Yeah, I saw it uses a few new elements. Still, you could accomplish the same effect without them, right? So it doesn't really require HTML5?
I also recommend his 2003 UCSB lecture paper: [PDF] http://www.tilsonfunds.com/MungerUCSBspeech.pdf
How similar is this to the alleged Nintendo vitality sensor?
It's basically true. You only have so many hours in the day.
Checkout the Tonido workspace application http://www.tonido.com.

You can create multiple social groups and have a calendar for each group as well.
I think the key is something that will start by having the option to air everything you do on it on facebook also. People would be more open to change if it meant they could still keep up with both in the interim.

I know when facebook was just starting out with people I know that a lot were happy to post actively on both, same with Twitter/facebook now. Long term I don't think people really want to but when something is new definatly.

The other issue is monetising the new site, your selling points are also your ones which make being advertising supported hard, I think the aim would be to keep lean unlike the monolithic structure facebook has today.
Sure, sounds fine! Why not make a normal website that isn't under the control of some greedy corporation? That's what the internet is for, to me.
http://getsatisfaction.com/ or http://lighthouseapp.com/
This actually makes me want to work there. At past jobs I've often been frustrated by management's inability to let go of problem employees. If the team isn't gelling or someone just isn't contributing, changes need to happen.

Note: someone might say that I was the problem, which may be true, but I wasn't let go either, so my point still stands ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TwqpWiY5s#t=36m40s

Who else was astonished at the hair-ball question? I mean, I know it's a casual atmosphere, but that was a seriously stupid question.
http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
I've done a lot of work with heartbeat signatures, and this is a promising idea. Each person has a certain set of easily identifiable characteristics to their heartbeat, such as notches, and creating something like an FFT to create a signature could potentially be a great method of identifying a user.
Isn't that exactly what GPUs already do?
I like this idea, but I'm not sure about the words upon a bit of reflection.

It seems like clicking "Uninsightful/Agree" is agreeing that I believe things that are uninsightful? I imagine that would be the least used option.

Insightful/Disagree seems like a contradiction. If someone has stated a conclusion that I think is wrong, how could I see those opinions as containing notable insights?
I don't think so; it's just a different tradition of thought. You can be different without having a medical condition. I and I'm sure you have worked with people who could run a nuclear reactor and seem to function OK, but can't manage eye contact. Another example: she holds great respect for Freud but I gather he is not taken seriously anymore in the States.
Thanks for your comment.

I'm talking more about when users register an issue about your startup/site/service that you need to track and resolve. Lighthouse seems to be more about internal project management, and I'm confused about how Getsatisfaction relates to this?
Swidish Omelette Recipe
I've had http://tenderapp.com/ recommended to me - anyone with experience with this app?
Nonsense. I've done it both ways, and doing it the way you describe is actually slower.
Go to bed now, Paul.

No, you won't. Hacker dude.
Give them flowers, folks.
And tell her how much you love her.

It's hard sometimes for us to express how we really feel...
I love you too, ma.
there was something similar to this for synthetic biology too, though it was much further along with a complete sdk to do basic, ummm, synthesis? does anyone know what it was?

regardless, this is dope.
http://projectsuggestions.com
Cool. I'm in a similar situation. Is it a business co-op or a housing co-op?
Just out of curiosity, how many daily uniques do we get these days?

/newsnews.html is very out of date :(
I’ve heard of people using a shared Gmail account for support tickets and handling ownership with labels.
Why not do it per transaction then per value of transaction. Individual transactions are around $5-$8 for non-day traders. So there is already a flat fee to buy or sell. It is very inefficient to issue a lot of small buy/sell orders. So this would discourage the high frequency of trading. Then there is an additional price based fee. The higher the value the higher the fee. The size of the individual share would make no difference then.
"Make a program that people can bitch about at parties."
This guy is brilliant. He's got a number of similar excellent posts on a variety of business and tech related subjects.

Straight, direct, clear and refreshing communication. I recommend you go through the other posts at http://www.fonality.com/blog/
There are always some good e-cards for mothers with a sense of humor...

http://www.someecards.com/mothers-day-cards/for-enduring-the...
Thanks, this illustrates the first problem well, I was just pointing out the kind of impact Cuban's proposal could have on a valuation. Any tax implemented like this would still have a proportionate effect on returns.

Not sure that anyone is trying to make a case that we need less shares; rather, we need a system that incentivises a focus on fundamentals.
Hacking an online ps2 game by intercepting packets
The nice thing about tweeting (and most tweet clients) is that you expect people to be linking to a site they just visited, not a random URL they typed from memory. (As long as the client says "checking links..." with a little spinner beside each URL getting replaced with a check or an X, I don't think users will mind waiting.) Also, "when something in the middle redirects infinitely", sharing that link would be malicious on the part of the poster, so it's okay to make them wait for some sort of time-out.

However, if you want to eat your cake and have it too, you can just change "canonicalize then shorten for SMS" to "always shorten, first pointing the shortened URL at the original URL, then asynchronously updating the shortened URL's target to the canonicalized URL, once the canonicalizing daemon has processed it."