skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you like in CS? Web? Computer Architecture? It has to be something you're interested in and you don't give a clue on that.
As the owner of a middle-aged brain I think this is pretty much in line with my own experiences. I've always been bad about remembering people's names, and I don't think this has really gotten any worse over the years. My memory of trivial or unimportant things has eroded a bit perhaps; I rationalize this as my brain doing garbage collection.

On the other hand I do think that I'm better at what I do than at any time in the past; I know more, I'm better at applying what I know; I know what approaches are likely to work and which ones have more risk. I certainly have not found that I "can't learn new things" though I am prone to being a bit more skeptical of fads and more appreciative of the time-tested and proven.
>No functional language exp.

Common Lisp, at least, isn't really a purely functional language. It supports multiple paradigms. Scheme and Clojure are a little more "functional" than CL, but they too are not pure. I wouldn't worry about this yet.

>Are there not several versions of Scheme, too. Any suggestions for what to start with.

I replied above. (-:

>Is scheme/lisp/clojure the correct language to use for terminal/command-line apps or ncurses stuff ?

I don't see why not.

>Does anyone offhand know if there is ncurses support for these languages ?

It looks like there is a package for Common Lisp for doing ncurses stuff. There's a thread on the PLT mailing list that indicates there's no support for ncurses in PLT Scheme, but other implementations might have it. A search in Clojure's libraries didn't reveal anything, but I may be looking in the wrong place (it seems like they would have one).
Speaking from experience, yes I am stupider in terms of raw neuron-crunching. However, with the benefit of experience, I tend to do fewer stupid things. Still do more stupid things than I wish to.
People who run IE6 aren't going to know what a browser is, or what IE6 is. Your examples aren't cutesy and progressive, they're smug and unhelpful.

And one day, I'll be visiting someone's house and remember a great chocolate recipe from your wife's blog, will sit down at a computer running IE6 and try to visit your site, and your messages will have me shouting "It's none of your business what browser this is, I didn't choose it; just show me the site so I can copy some text out. I don't care how badly rendered and mangled it is, that's my problem not yours. If you want to serve it up picture perfect then make it a freaking PDF, that's what PDF is there for, it's not what HTML is there for".
we do have something like the free market in the US. its distorted, compromised, partially outlawed to be sure.

the real estate bubble and its collapse were certainly caused by a perfect storm of market distortions, many of which are still with us.

but prices for many things, including oil, are set freely and that is the element of the market relevant to the existence of the supply of oil
Web sucks big time with its plethora of different technologies and architectures being bundled together in ad-hoc and unintuitive ways. The next Google is going to be founded by the web architect who builds a framework that solves all this heterogeneous, complex development environment with a clean, structured, portable and open solution.

Even facebook is one big application based on messy technology. They can cope with it only because they have lots of Ms.

You can't fix it by extending crippled java script whose name has a misconception to begin with.

Let me give you an example: In 70s operating systems were built as ad-hoc services on top of the hardware. Functionality was implemented in ad-hoc fashion, interfacing to each other in afterthought, clunky ways. Then came Unix, and eventually evolved the design by bundling the filesystem, disk IO and process memory management in one implementation. We need someone clever to do the same to web and relieve us from this mess.
Here's what chocochichi looks like in two other web browsers:

http://i.imgur.com/MvmB9.png

http://i.imgur.com/pdyqV.png

I think it's tasteful on your alphabet clock. But it bothers me on the cooking blog. For instance, I'm at work. I'm excited, because I'm going to get a recipe from chocochichi.com and pick up ingredients on the way home. But because work has very old computers, the site is blocked! I become sad and stop by McDonalds on the way home.
Pretty much any computer that can run IE6 should be able to run Firefox, no? I think the number of users who would have to upgrade their hardware to use something newer than IE6 is very low.

I agree about not shutting IE6 users out though. If broken rendering and warning messages aren't enough to get them to upgrade, blocking them from the site isn't going to accomplish anything except reducing the number of visitors to your site.
Facebook's moves and personalized advertising
Er...my bank already records the location of deposits (and spending on my cards) and my statements for the last three years are online. Additionally, they are required to notify the government of any cash transactions I make exceeding $5000, under the Patriot Act. I question the idea that this is some sort of attempt to create a command economy...the Cato institute strike me as a somewhat ideological in economic matters.

In any case, executive support for a separate Consumer Financial Protection Agency, like that for the $50 bn liquidation fund, is weak.

For a little perspective, here's the Cato institute's fairly relaxed review of the Patriot Act in practice: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10692 Though they've filed a few amicus curiae briefs over 'enemy combatant' detentions they haven't exactly been at the forefront of electronic privacy issues.
Facebook just made it easier to share what you’re going to do
Your website is useless to people who don't have Flash.
Let's hope that because this is Hurricane Oil Slick instead of Hurricane Katrina, the cleanup at the Gulf will take less than the projected 20 years (of Katrina that is). The residents at the Gulf sure don't get a break from natural and man-made disasters.
I've had a couple of problems here and there with configurations.

The worst one was my fault : I edited my crontab on ym home machine, and sent it by sftp to the server and put it in /etc. Everything was fine, until a week later I did a routine aptitude upgrade.... and then I woke up to find out my cronjobs hadn't been running for the past 9 hours.

This could be like a riddle! But well, what happened is I had non-root ownership on the crontab. When cron restarted, it saw this, logged an error and refused to budge another inch.

I've had a few other configuration related errors, to. We run a pretty tight company (in terms of, no time to do anything extra) and so I'm wary of inadvertently changing some vital configuration that I haven't thought of in a year or two.
Like every good liberal, I'm not crazy about the idea of nuclear power, but from an objective standpoint it's relatively safe and it's incredibly clean compared to just about every other viable alternative (at least in the short term).

Of course, if we had fusion we could easily solve this problem, but that's a good 40 years away.
Why it is too late to regulate Facebook
"Time tested" -- I just realized how Mercedes could be advanced and stodgy at the same time. Their strategy (of old, not sure if this still applies) was to be years ahead in R&D so that they could take their time introducing the new thing. Their strategy was not to be the first. Their strategy was to be the best developed.

I think that this could only work in a relatively mature industry, otherwise giving up the first mover advantage would be too steep a cost to pay. Computer hardware? Relatively mature. Desktop OS? Relatively mature. Mobile OS? Not sure about that one.

EDIT: Another realization: You still get the first-mover advantage if you are the first decent implementation.
I think "document your stuff" is common enough advice in this area.
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why not just choose a different time of the year to run your program? You wouldn't have to convince the top companies to choose Shotput in Atlanta over Y Combinator and Techstars (a battle which you'll lose until you develop brand). The reality is that there are enough entrepreneurs who desperately need money at all times of the year. These companies may not want to wait until the summer application process and could be convinced to do shotput instead.

There are some benefits of having a 8-10 week "accelerator" program. As you mentioned, there's the feeling of camaraderie between the startups but also its easier to line up speakers, have a Demo day, and get good office space when its a 10 week program.
I'll have to look into that one. I never heard of it before.
now if only I was smart enough to figure one out like this.
And so many of you think patents should be abolished...
This is simply bind which will be in future versions of JavaScript. http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-strict-mode-json-and-more... It has been available in dojo as dojo.hitch, goog.bind, $.hitch in a jQuery plugin.
Agree to disagree :)

The only Flash component is the embedded screencast, which is hosted at Vimeo and downloadable as an mp4: http://vimeo.com/6782671
Good point. Can you suggest a web site that properly explains the issues with IE6 and how to upgrade in language that's appropriate for users who may not even know what a browser is? I bet there are some pages out there already like that.
@apphacker - are you sure? I thought bind assigned the value of 'this' in a function.
Actually there are plenty of realistic replacements for oil, the issue is more about lobbying and PR than anything else. IF we as Americans wanted to invest in things other than the military, it wouldn't be that hard to get things moving withing a decade. What if we spent $800 billion a year on implementing solar technology? Obviously that's an overstatement but the point stands. The oil companies have payed hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby congress over the years to keep their dominance in the energy market. I'm not naively suggesting we could go solar tomorrow, but I think it's amazing when people so blindly accept the status quo. This is a willpower issue, not a technological one.
A much less, well, rude way to do it would be to throw Dean Edward's IE8.js or IE9.js scripts on it: http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2010/03/ie7js-update/

and don't do anything else for compatibility, then put a little notice. They probably won't pay attention either way, but you won't be needlessly cutting people off either.
How does Cisco (or any hardware company) ensure that their authentic, but still made-in-china products haven't been secretly altered?
To represent LSD as risk free way to expand your mind just is not right. If you are going to take LSD be sure of your environment or who you are around. It isn't just whether you have certain mental state beforehand as you mental state is highly suggestive while tripping. Even recreational users in the 60's recognise that a bummer is possible. It can be worse than just having a bad trip. I've seen paranoia and other unwanted effects.

It's a double edged sword, so you are much better to control your environment as much as possible. Steering clear of negativity.
No, it cannot. Windows 98/ME are unable to run new versions of Firefox, but can run IE6.
I'd like to use my current computer for 20 years: http://mark.pilgrim.usesthis.com/ Only 17.5 years to go!
Fetishizing Programming Languages
This one is quite helpful: http://browsehappy.com/
Makes sense. The fact that e^(ipi) = -1 seems crazy at first, but no one has a preconceived notion of what it should equal, so when you show a simple proof, of course they'll accept it.

But people's whole mathematical careers they've worked with decimals and developed firm ideas of how they work. So they idea that 0.999... = 1 seems to defy their years of decimal practice, which makes it hard to accept.

Fun anecdote: In my calc BC class, we did an infinite series question that proved that .999... = 1 (it was an infinite series of 9/(10^n), so it was adding 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 + ...), which blew the minds of half of our class.

During the argument that ensued, our teacher said "Well, it doesn't actually equal 1. It'll never quite get there. It just gets infinitely close."

Needless to say, what little respect for her I did have at that point in the year was gone after that.
First off, let's turn down the rhetoric just a bit. You can like or dislike this feature without believing it goes "well across the line" of ethical behavior. We're talking about blog posts here, not scientific research or human life or politics or anything where a serious discussion of the ethics involved might be warranted.

Posterous isn't stealing money from anyone, and to the end user they aren't changing a single aspect of the user experience. They are altering the links of content creators slightly. Now, let's discuss that.

These links aren't being redirected to anywhere but the original destination. Adding an unobtrusive query parameter is absolutely not the same thing as pointing everyone to another website. I respect the opinion that it shouldn't be done, but I don't agree.

There are two arguments in play, the first is that altering links at all is fundamentally wrong. I can't refute that because it seems to be purely opinion driven. I can only say that I disagree, and that to me, things which have no detectable impact on the end user are not fundamentally wrong.

The other argument, and the one I find particularly silly, is this notion that Posterous shouldn't be privately profitting off other people's content. This is, in fact, how the entire economy of the ad driven web works. Users create content, site owners make money. See Google ads. What Posterous is doing is exactly the same thing, except it's better because I don't have to actually look at ads and I can still support the site.

Should Posterous have told people? Yeah. Should they offer an option to turn it off? Probably. But these are relatively minor complaints about an otherwise harmless feature.
> I subconsciously did it was that natural numbers have an inherent structure to them.

I understand and concur you :)

But I don't think Euler's identity is meant to serve this purpose. Maybe some other formula.

It's hard to un-like something once you already liked it very much. First impression matters. How about e^(i*pi)-1==0 instead?
You seriously don't think there would be money in an orgasm pill?
This is not surprising considering the number of news we read about Chinese 'interest' in Indian websites - everything ranging from Nuclear programs to Tibet.

There is another reason - cheap Chinese mobiles without IMEI numbers were flooding the market.
Just curious, but where did you get the 40 number from?
I think that says more about OWA than it does about Firefox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting
Secret iPhone pawner stays one step ahead of Apple Gestapo
50 Incredible, Historical Speeches [Online]
India's electronic voting machines are vulnerable to attack
As a hypothetical individual cop in Arizona, would subjecting as many white people as possible to "papers please" be a reasonable way to protest this?

Obviously if someone can produce government-issued ID, you're done. But a few high profile cases of upstanding citizens walking around without ID being harassed by cops who were "only following orders" might get people to realize just how un-American this law is.
Teaching children to program by JavaScript examples
In my case, I did a high school apprenticeship at NASA (and they did actually call it that a few years ago). No real lab experience outside of a basic chemistry class. Same thing for my 14 peers in the program.
I'd say the four most common operators: Addition, multiplication, exponentiation, and test-for-equality. :-)
Northwestern University Newscenter
The OP might be referring to the necessity of oil in fabricating all sorts of things, a main focus being plastic and transporting all our Stuff worldwide.

But with respect to simple energy, I agree it's a matter of motivation and diversion of funding that keeps us from utilizing solar, wind, etc. energy efficiently.
We have nested comments here. You don't have to use @; you can reply directly.
its got the five most beautiful constants in one formula
e, pi , i , 1 and 0 and hence i chose it for my handle :)
If you've never done Peyote, it's a bit different, containing lots of different alkaloids. The effect is pretty similar though. Always depends on the person and context.

San Pedro is really easy to grow yourself, and totally legal.
maybe you should come, because you'd feel much better afterwards :)
I would like to know what kind of factory the author works in.
Yes, they already have done that. It was made a law, and cheap Chinese phones now comes with a govt. approved IMEI.
In high school, I remember learned this from reading James Gleick's book about Feynman. Feynman had written in one of his notebooks, as a fifteen year-old:
THE MOST REMARKABLE FORMULA IN MATH:
e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0

I marched in to my calculus teacher the next day and stammered about how unbelievable this was. A few weeks later he helped us work through why it's true.

(Edit: ha, typo. Thanks BoppreH.)
Honestly, it took about ten seconds to learn it was on the other side. Is it really that much trouble for people to adapt? It's been less than a day and I don't even notice it's on the other side any more.

Yes, there's the argument that people should (and can) put it wherever they like, but seriously, within ten or so instances it's relearned.
The phone I got my mom is this one:

http://amzn.com/B002V45UEE (IPEVO)
Letter from Steve Jobs: No Apple Giftcards for iPads
Another interesting snippet regarding HTC Sense:

"To say that this UI is competitive with something like iPhone OS 3.1 (or 4 for that matter), or Palm's webOS is an understatement; in many ways it's superior to what Apple and Palm are offering."
Remotely Attacking Network Cards (or why we do need VT-d and TXT)
I think he was referring to the (unnecessary) "why would it not?".
Congrats John! Nice to see you're coming out of RIT (where I currently attend).
If you read the article, unattractive people are more likely to be found guilty /by jurors who react emotionally/ tather than rationally.
Those three operators are the first three hyper operators. 1st (Addition), 2nd (Multiplication) and 3rd (Exponentiation).

I wonder if throwing in the 4th hyper operator, tetration, and the value phi produces anything.
Would it be useful if I added features to HN to support meetups? If so, what features?
I might jump from Skype to SIP if I had some more information. As it is, I'm not aware that I know any SIP users. Are there rating sites for SIP providers, apps, and hardware?
I was amused that the author parodied pg's use of footnotes, but I'm wondering who else's writing style I'm missing because I don't read their work.
In the current legal climate it's pretty much impossible to do any research on these issues, so we only have anecdotal reports for now. I'd personally like to see some responsible and sober research into the actual effects of psychedelics that have a well-established safety profile.

Anecdotal: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/09/dr-lsd-to-steve-jobs-...

Anecdotal: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_24.pdf

Anecdotal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Use_of_LSD

Implicit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7F2X3rSSCU
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مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وفياريال بث مباشر
"Both companies sell the Linux computer operating software, a cheaper competitor to Microsoft's Windows."

Most large organizations pay about the same in support for their Linux servers as they do in Windows.
It's not about whether or not it is harmless or not. It's simply a sneaky way of going about an otherwise perfectly ok business.

There would have been absolutely no harm in informing the users if they were not afraid that it would turn people away from posterous, but the way this now comes in to the open and the apology fall way short of what I'd come to expect of them. I'm not a user but I've done my bit to promote posterous and I feel that my trust that those people are in 'good hands' is misplaced.

Altering links is not fundamentally wrong, if you inform your user about it.

Profiting of other peoples content is fine too, if you are aboveboard about that being the deal.

Doing any of this without putting it loud and clear in your terms of service is definitely not ok.

And to make it seem like this was 'just an experiment' is stretching credulity to the breaking point and well beyond, that simply insults the intelligence of the users and the people here. The only reason it was four months is because that's how long it took for someone to figure it out.
Give the guy a break, he attempted to summarize (to a non-tech crowd) what Red Had does in one sentence.
And I know absolutely nothing about air pressure, but it does seem like it'd be a lot to fight against. Given that an average baby's head has about 97 square inches (cross-section), and 1 atmosphere is about 14.7 PSI, it must take almost 1433 pounds of force to eject a baby! Given a baby's average weight of 7.5 pounds, that means you'd have to spin at 191 Gs just to overcome air pressure; you've still got to fight friction!

Mothers are amazing.
I would probably lean towards Clojure, because of your Java experience, its library advantages, active community and the usefulness of other JVM communities. However, a tradeoff to keep in mind is that currently it often has unhelpful exception error messages.

Googling for "ncurses java" provided better results than "ncurses clojure". It is useful to exploit Java's libraries, only wrapping them in Clojure when there is something to be gained. (Like writing a macro mini-language to automate away tedious parts of a library you use.)

I find that when using a new program (in this case, a programming language), it helps to quickly test that it basically supports the features I'll want. So if I had your requirements, I might check early on whether I liked one of the ncurses libraries.
The joke is that it's always 40 or 50 years away. According to the plan for the ITER project at least, the first fusion plant should arrive mid century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
You know, I don't believe that is true. Why? Because I work in a mixed Windows and RHEL world. Licensing from MS is steeper than RHEL.
It is interesting to compare the teaching technique to the recently posted Zed Shaw Python book. The examples "start at the end" and begin using objects and jQuery right away rather than building up from the nuts and bolts of numbers, functions, and syntax. Since it is JavaScript running in the browser, it is nicely interactive.

It's not complete yet, but you can see other examples still to be added:

http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/04/12/tutorial_maze_maker....
http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/04/17/tutorial_cannon_game...
It really isn't trouble at all...except people hate change.
"One of the most intriguing findings is that if you talk to people who disagree with you, that helps your brain wake up and refine your arguments and shake up the cognitive egg."

That strikes me as truth. And a very inconvenient one at that.
Problems the 'community' has with putting Flash on iPhone
What are the technical hurdles that have blocked "hackers" from installing Flash on the iPhone? It appears from the outside almost anything else is hackable on the iPhone.

Thank you,

mars
Second round of GoDaddy sites hacked (again)