skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why you should always mount a scratch monkey.
if (confirm('You entered BILLIONS did you mean MILLIONS?'))
{return false;}

problem solved.
Suggestion: left/right arrow keys should map to the previous/next page buttons.

edit: it does in slideshow mode but not the other modes.
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Yep. Now to get some hard numbers.
> Some one write a translator which converts code from one language to another! And stupid tactics are being used by Apple to stop it!

a) Why are the tactics 'stupid'? Justify that statement.

b) OP's main argument here is that no programmer is entitled to the 'right' to be able to make software for the iPhone in an environment of their choosing. He goes on to argue that different languages/environments serve different purposes, and it would do programmers good to pick up these different environments. Your response ("I mean come on!") does not address this point in any way.

c) It is implicit in understanding programming languages that they have very different approaches to different problems. Some programmers call this 'forms of thinking' as in 'the Lisp form of thinking' (or something equivalent, I really should check the vocab on this). Programming languages are more than just Turing Complete. They're a lens through which you view problems. Most times such lenses are very important.

> The article goes on to make dubious arguments about computational creativity on different platforms which make totally no sense!

d) Why are the arguments dubious? Why does his point about computational creativity on different platforms not make sense?

OP has provided us with coherent, well-written, and justified arguments. Your post, on the other hand, is filled with one-line assertions.

Please rectify this. You are not contributing to the discussion.
Upgrades are the sticking point when it comes to frameworks

Yes. They even cause the language to get sticky! I think Guido's moratorium was smart -- things need to be tightened. While it's somewhat trivial, having many different Python interpreters is an annoyance. I can't use NumPy, SciPy, and MatPlotLib on Python 3, and I don't have good Unicode with less-than Python 3.
Thanks. I really appreciate the feedback and advice (from everyone on HN). The whole "wondering how much longer I should give it" phase lasted from about February until early April.

One of the first things that made me realize it might be time to cut my losses and focus my attention on other projects was when we launched this website in mid Feb - http://toeflnow.com

We sell a TOEFL Tips and Strategies guide eBook, and while it certainly isn't earning enough to pay all the bills it is making substantially more money than Lenguajero. In fact, in its first week it made more money than Lenguajero did the entire month of Feb.

That was a real turning point. It was like "Hmmm...hundreds of hours spent on Lenguajero vs. ~40hrs spent on an ebook. Maybe I should be doing something else right now..."

Good luck! I really hope it works out for you. What's the website if you don't mind me asking?
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Sorry, I'm not buying into the concept. If selecting "Add -> HTML Element -> Body -> Div" on a menu is meaningful to you, you can write HTML and do it a lot faster than dealing with pulldown menus.

Likewise, if you understand the logic you need to implement well enough to correctly diagram it, you can write the code to do it. And (with experience) probably do it faster. We've had tools that generate code from UML diagrams for a long time, but I don't know anyone who uses them.
This is interesting, because it seems to solve the problem of having to buy dozens of .tlds to secure your brand name.
I'm coming off a very painful startup failure myself, but I am honestly very thankful for the experience. There is an old cliche that says you learn more from your failures than your successes. It's become a cliche for a reason, it's usually true.

I reflect often on the entire experience and constantly go over all the mistakes we made in hindsight. It's painful, really painful, but you learn from the pain. The pain makes it real so you won't ever make the same mistakes again.

I'm onto my next startup now and all that hard learning is paying off. I'm working even hard but with much less stress since I know I'm doing the right things this time around.
I think it's a false dichotomy to compare the tech bubble with facebook. The former was an economic phenomenon that was dependent on the continued supply of new money from increasingly clueless investors (essentially a pyramid scheme, like all bubbles). The latter is a business with a ton of users and a disturbing amount of information on those users. They have several options for further monetization that don't necessitate unsustainable growth.

I do hope facebook fails because of its stance on privacy, among other issues. But I don't think its situation is at all comparable to that of the tech bubble.
Can you expand on what you thought was subpar about using Latex on Windows 7? I use Latex almost exclusively and for such an obscure (compared to Office) document publishing system, Latex has some pretty amazing tools available for Windows.

If you go the full IDE path you have TeXnicCenter, WinEdt, and LEd.

If you go text editor path you have your favorite editor to write the source and latexmk to automatically build when the source file changes.

Combine your favorite way of writing with MiKTex for the core program and package management and you have a bulletproof way of using Latex in Windows.
- just some numbers, might be relevant

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/global/facebook-and-twit...
Nice at initial size, but zooming jumbles the words in the latest Chrome Mac.
I use chef for about 10-15 slicehost nodes at work (in production for about 3 months now). It's worked well thus far but requires writing some bootstrap scripts for installing chef on a fresh instance and a fair amount of diving into the DSL (and sparse areas of documentation) depending on your needs.

I also developed all my recipes from scratch (didn't use any of the preset opscode stuff, though those are great examples of what can be done and very useful for standard installations of things). I haven't worked with the new recipes mentioned either, but it looks like chef is beginning to grow into some of the potential created by some of the recent infrastructure enhancements.

The whole ordeal probably took about two weeks of learning, tuning, and testing, but it could be MUCH quicker for more standard and homogenous server stacks - you can start with recipes used by Engine Yard and 37signals, for example.
Things Nobody Wants to Hear About the Market Plunge
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Hi. Just letting y'all know that the first Moodle 2.0 preview release is available :)

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_2.0_Preview_1_release_notes

What's a Moodle? It's open source course/learning management software used by educators all over the world to make education more effective and more accessible to everyone.

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/111/

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I can't tell if you're joking.
There was a real melt-down. For a while Yahoo! Finance and Bloomberg were both unavailable. Google's finance page continued to function during that time. A friend was able to trade on Schwab and Fidelity, but E-Trade wasn't able to return trade confirmations, and eventually told my friend their market maker was down.
As entrepreneurs?
Though I probably would have added to Python AND Ruby:

"... and you also want to get a website up fast."

and to C#:

"... you want Java but Microsoft-ified"
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It's much easier to predict what will happen than it is to predict when.

For example, I can make the following predictions:

Facebook will collapse
India and China will erupt into violent war
We will experience a water crisis
Oil will run out (that one is actually easier, about 3 decades)
Iran will be invaded

These are all fairly obvious predictions. Sometimes math can be used to zero in on dates, but for most of us around here, we simply do not have enough information to calculate exact dates. We can only speculate.

The article is analyzing the future of facebook, saying today, that it will not be around at some point, which is contrary to many current opinions.

But I say the media will start to discuss an inflection point in Facebook before the end of the summer. They'll talk about how its oldest users are leaving, but its still getting new members. It will talk about a decline in the length of the average lifetime of a facebook account. It will say fewer people are logging in as much. Fewer new apps are being developed. Again, all by the end of the summer.

By the end of this year, we'll start to see lots of "will xyz.com replace facebook?" Apple could launch a social network. Bloggers/journalists will ask, "When will apple create a social network?" They'll start to point out growth in other social networks, they'll talk about where the facebookers are going. All this by the end of 2010.

By the end of 2011, facebook will be passe among the internet elite. The oprahs of the real world will start saying you can interact with them somewhere other than facebook. Commercials on TV will mention some other network instead of mentioning their facebook page like they do now.

By the end of 2012, the blogosphere will be talking about what mark did wrong, why people thought it was different, why it was the same, lessons the new start up social networks can learn from his mistakes.

By the end of 2013, facebook will be a distant memory...
Are Sportswriters Really Necessary?
Why is it in Apple's best interests for your app to run on iPhone? What competitive advantage do they lose if your app--which doesn't depend on anything special--runs on android, palm, and blackberry but not on iphone?

Er, because then there wouldn't be much left? The large majority of iPhone apps don't depend on anything "special"; just touch events, basic widgets, and sometimes accelerometer support and 3d graphics.
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Does the iPad youtube app work, by the way? I can't remember a time where my iPhone's youtube app has successfully streamed an entire video down without dying at some random point (over wifi - 3G seems to work but the quality is abysmal).
Excuse my cynicism, but this is southern Europe; to some degree, riots are the norm, rather than the exception.
It's always easy to drop the price on the app store, but very hard to increase the price. So it's rare to see an app go up in price.
Christies' auctioning off of the most expensive painting ever.
Just checked one vid, it streamed without issue.

That said, I've never had an issue with my iPhone's youtube app either, so I don't know if there's something fundamentally different about my network and yours.
Yes. It works beautifully. It's appalling how good the HD looks.
It will fall, no doubt about that, however you are early on the curve and thus are underestimating the amount of time it will take to first hit its apogee and then decline.
No, now... You're putting words into my mouth. I have known for years that people would complain about facebook's privacy violations and their pressure to make money would cause a user revolt. I've also said they will change their privacy policies to the worst interest of their users.

Don't discount the validity of that prediction simply because I did not put a time stamp on it.

Many people have said, and probably will say soon, that facebook will always be around and always be part of our lives and as integral to it as television. Those predictions are bad predictions, yet people argue them.

I did put some date based predictions in another comment above, what is your prediction?
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Yeah, it works fine for me. I agree, the iPhone version is seriously jacked up, but the iPad one is beautiful.
XGA is the new HD.
Not really. Porsche bought lots of VW stock either outright or as a call option. They also lent their VW stock to short-sellers. This way they `recycled' some of their VW stock, because those short-sellers sold to Porsche again.

This allowed Porsche to build up a huge position, with only a few willing market participants as counter-parties. They also managed to short-squeeze the short-sellers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_squeeze)

The grandparent post described a long-squeeze. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_squeeze)
Can't you just turn it into a crime not to deliver?
Let's look at Macs instead. Walk into any large company, which probably spends millions of dollars a year on computers (and IT support). No Macs. Why?

Because most IT staffs are not savvy enough to support both PCs and Macs on a corporate network. IME, IT is often barely competent enough to support PCs.[1]

[1] Design shops are the exception to this rule, since Macs tend to be popular with creative types
I check my facebook account quite often but don't actually use it for anything. Only about 5% of my friends frequently update their status. It is strange how the habit has remained with me despite the content being no longer relevant to my life.

Reminds me of what Nietzsche said about religion. God is dead (even though churches are not).

Does anyone have statistics on the ratio of "facebook site hits"-to-"actual usage"?
What exactly are you trying to get at? Yes, there is something really wrong. But chalk it up as an human or computer error. In a few days when they unravel it, it'll probably be some wacky algorithmic problem, or some day-trader decided to sell a couple billion shares instead of million. The later most likely.
Anecdotally, I seem to enjoy using my 12" XGA laptop for recreation more than my 15" UXGA laptop. The latter seems like too much computer.

(Mind you, I'm still glad it's an all-purpose x86 machine.)
My guess is that the algorithms do well within say one standard deviation range but beyond that the computers
step away. Once the computer volume drops, markets get thin
and "Market Orders" produce the results you see. You see bad
fills quite a bit in penny stocks but never in these large volume stocks.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200488

Only one post-Bubble company (Facebook) currently looks like it has a good shot at making its founder a billionaire. Compare to newly minted finance billionaires Steven Cohen, James Simons, Peter Thiel (also the founder of PayPal, but he made his billion in finance, not software), Ray Dalio, John Paulson, Kenneth Griffin and dozens more.
People that want to do it generally would use rapidweaver or similar tool like iweb
But how often do you and your family make any meaningful use out of it? A pattern I've seen is that people join, have an active wall for a couple weeks and then they just go back to using sms and email for keeping in touch with each other.
After playing with Safari for a couple of weeks, I've recently started flexing the iPad Photos and Music software and it has been a revelation. My post-80s history with Apple starts with the iPod in 2004, and the iPad Music app is really fucking good. I want to mount this thing in my car, in my kitchen, in my living room. The music software puts the iPhone/iPod touch to shame. Too bad it doesn't fit in my pocket.

And Photos, it's so much fun to play with the "Places" map, I immediately went in to iPhoto and started tagging the rest of my photos. I don't think I will ever use my laptop to browse or show off my photo library again. I can pull up the Places map, hand it off to whoever what to see my photos, and let them go nuts. It's a supremely compelling experience.

I bought an iPad because I wanted to see how a pure touch interface could change traditional human-computer interaction; I haven't been disappointed.

And the iPad App Store isn't even available in my country yet. The iPhone/iPad-only WWDC sold out in 8 days, and I can't wait to see what developers come up with over the next year. It should be a hell of a toboggan ride.
While recently there has been a flood of such articles and most of them are full of bs, I think this one collects a lot of good points. Their rich functionality is starting to eat its own tail.

FB will not die tomorrow for sure, but the way people use it will for sure move them outside its frontpage. FB first focused on the 'fb connect', now on the api, like button, etc. - they will stay for long as the backend for social connections and data/media collection, but people will roll out of their frontpage sooner or later. The same factors that made the website so amazing, now are making it confusing and harder to use.
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I can't view docs on iPad?
Google is secretive about its search algorithm to prevent people from gaming the system; wondering if the major stock exchanges do something similar...

Can anyone explain (and possibly cite sources) what the price represents that is displayed when you obtain a stock quote directly from one of the major exchanges?

Is it:

A) The highest unfilled bid

B) The lowest unfilled ask

C) The most recent filled trade

D) The most recent trade at some min. % of float

E) Some combination of the above

F) Other: _______________________

This is a teachable moment and would go a long way towards helping us understand what happened. On the surface, most of these pricing models seem incredibly easy to game.

Bonus; are other quote sources priced using alternative methods? If so, please explain.
> How about a 7 day free trial before we get to the ordering stage?

Or maybe a cut-down free version.
Looks really nice. I zoomed in so I could read it, and then scrolled, noticed the nifty scroll meter at the bottom, and then it caused FF 3.6.3 to hang for quite a while (Win XP).
There is something very, very wrong with your search. Doing a search for 'Lisp' yields 22 pages all containing the same book 'On Lisp'. I tried doing an advanced search on titles only and got the same result.

On a somewhat related note. I find it odd that you don't have a specific topic or category for Comp Sci/Programming. Just a topic for 'Science and Technology'. What is the difference between a category and a topic?
If they fucked the squatters and parked domains off then we'd probably never need another top or other domain again.

It's just stupid trying to find an unregistered domain now.
Great idea, certainly ambitious, but concerned at how intuitive it actually is to use.

For instance, I'm looking at your Logic Editor screenshots and I have no idea what any of them are actually doing. It seems to be on the minimalist side of graphical languages, like MAX/MSP, but those things are usually targeted toward specialists and not the casual user.

Also, I would need to use your layout editor to really know how useful it is, because doing HTML/CSS layout via a web app has been attempted in the past and just about every effort I know of has not caught on. It turns out laying out a page in a web UI is very hard to do right. Even if the editor is solid, the generated code is never pretty to look at.
The list is indeed too long. Sorry, the list of collab tools should not include slicehost.

Polycom looks interesting.

I personally like a private forum (tikiwiki has a good free oss one) and wiki behind a password wall, git, something for screen sharing, skype and if it's a lot of people doing coding, a continuous integration server with IM notification.
I've been saying we need a .app TLD for years!
Thank you! That's amazing about your TOEFL vs. Lenguajero revenue. My site is http://soshiku.com and my submission to HN is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315281 (submitted ~19 months ago, yikes).
I've been using Firefox with Flash disabled for the last couple of days because of the obnoxious flash adds on m-w.com. I keep being surprised by how widely Flash is used.
This is a fully-general scornful response to any UI changes that Google could possibly have made. Or could ever make in the future. Congratulations?
Want one is the keyword. I've played with my coworkers iPad quite a bit and can see how it could fit into my life. But at the same time its not a need - not in the way I need my smartphone. Its a big shiny toy that I want but only when its convient.
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I think you need to do more research on adsense optimization.
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I like your concept, but I'm sour on your company because of the blatant piracy that's allowed. I know filtering content is hard, but I think you could do a better job.

For example:

http://www.google.com/search?q=paul+graham+hackers+and+paint...

You can replace Hackers and Painters with most any book, and it will come up on Scribd.

Just my $.02.
The idea is the manager doesn't know the sabotage happened, and only sees the results. The failed sabotages, yeah, of course those don't help.
perhaps the most positive outcome will be the outpouring of many different - but API-compatible social networking tools - all built by various naysayers and "i can do better-ists" which result in a variety of great choices. You can choose Wordpress or Moveable Type, or perhaps Apache or IIS, or AIM or GTalk. Interoperability, done earnestly and successfully, will move the challenge to the quality of user experiences and the robustness of the platform.

Yes, there are many social network style applications waiting to be discovered, but this effort, Diaspora, not only has a lot of attention, but it hit at a good time - when people are openly dissatisfied with the incumbent service, and the team heading up this project has not only the support of groupies, but their school, open source software organizations, and a lot of very motivated community members.

Lets hope that we can build something that will endure for the long term, and reverse the trend of user exploitation.
Ask HN: Which companies have a purpose bigger than their product?
Microsoft: "put a computer on every desk."

Google: "organize the world's information."

Ebay: "democratize commerce."

What are your examples?
Presumably your DRM system (or whatever other approach you use) will cost money to develop (or buy in). So you need to make enough extra sales from the converted pirates to cover that cost. And there will be extra support costs from legitimate customers who encounter problems with the DRM system. And there might be running costs for the DRM system if it requires running a server somewhere.

Probably all small costs on their own, but they add up.
how does this compare with Beanstalk ?
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. =)

Where is myspace,com today?
Annecdotally, I have similar findings. The iPad has replaced 90% of my laptop use at home and the office. The laptop only comes out when I need to do Real Work™, things that require multiple ssh sessions, browser windows, chat, email, etc, all at the same time.

For email, web browsing and those blasted causal games, it's glued to my fingers.
Awesome! I don't think even Google did that.
SVN+Git hosting - BeanstalkApp VS Repositoryhosting uptime 
Note Beanstalk is on Rackspace and RH on Amazon EC2.. what do you think?
That's it, HN is dead to me. "How I Monetized My Passion" is self-parody. When you can't tell the difference between parody and the real thing you're a goner.
No. I'm talking about transforming the expectations of society.
Well we are talking about Accenture here...