skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World Leaders Agree to Austerity, Cut Deficits by 2013
My observation of Forth is that it is used to write an undocumented [1] DSL and then solve the actual problem using that DSL.

This is great if you were the one that wrote the DSL and thus understand it intimately (having a prodigious ability to memorize is pretty important too). On the other hand, it sucks if you didn't write the DSL and have to understand how to use it or fix bugs in it because you first have to reverse-engineer the DSL. Reverse-engineering the DSL may take as long as writing it in the first case.

[1] The biggest documentation failure I typically have seen in Forth is a failure to document the word's parameters, i.e. the stack contents going into and returning from words. This is aggravated by the stack manipulation operations duping, swapping, etc. that look more like a game of "15 squares" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_puzzle than an algorithm.
What will this site do that Grooveshark or Last.fm doesn't, besides market to a different demographic?
I find the term "cofounder" to be way overused, especially on HN lately. Once a company has been founded, and an initial product launched, how is it possible to "hire" a cofounder?

Also:

> The site needs someone young and hungry to work their ass off for equity.

If you can't afford to pay a programmer, you should probably just work your own ass off.
The one thing I would definitely say is get one of the new, high-end ones - Droid / Droid 2, Droid Incredible, Droid X, Nexus One, Galaxy S and Evo.

From this bunch, it depends on which carrier / features you want. Some of them are physically larger, some have slide-out keyboards, etc etc.
Reminds me of cats. Ask someone who hates cats to describe cats, and cat lovers will agree with the description. Cat hater ends with something like, "And that's why I hate cats," while cat lover ends with, "And that's why I love cats." Both to the same description.
> Europe, Far East, Russia trust science way more

They do?
Caltech trains its eye on the World Cup ball
WordPress is not just for blogs dammit
I logged into HN using this
Definitely. Swype is amazing. I'm using the beta right now, but when they decide to start asking for money I'll pay.
Also, the Droid X will launch in August or so, so if you go that route you may want to wait a few months (it also doesn't have the droid's fiddly d-pad.
At first, I thought it was some kind of ferrofluid — those tend to behave rather similarly — but this is just corn starch, which behaves strangely when agitated like that.
If your idea of social networking is fulfilled by email, instant messaging, and physical interaction, then why would you want another tool that did things fundamentally differently anyway? That's a classic case of "you have no need for Facebook", not "Facebook is evil because it doesn't do what you'd like".
I think you don't disagree. The grocer is not in a seller in the same ecosystem as the farmer. The grocer is one of the external people who benefits from the zero-sum game the farmers are playing.
Good testimonial. I don't have an iPad to try it out. It seems like he created a quality product: a novel game. Yes, he created it using Titanium from Appcelerator, and he had to deal with some nasty, niggling Javascript performance/implementation issues. Key to his success was the 'First Follower' (positive reviews).
"yeah thats not what I was looking for at all."
San Francisco passes mobile radiation law (just in case)
I'm a bit skeptical on backgammon too after playing the 'real' (non-capturing) version against turks/lebanese. Certainly it's not chess, but substantially complex.
"Swarm SG is much deeper than Backgammon or Chess "

I'll call.
Isn't Beautiful soup primarily to do screen scraping? I already scraped the content and stored it in a DB. Now I want to do some analysis on the text.
As I said in my post, I thought Scott's post was great until he went after Chicago. I agree it's a Chicago thing. We're a proud folk. We get angry, but I've never seen a post from Chicago bashing other places. It's clear Portland, Seattle, New York, Austin, and "the bay area" (really all cities) have great things going for them. Why is it we seem to be the city to bash? I'm sore, sure, but this has been going in for a long time. In a post in 2007 I highlighted a presentation series, my partner Lance was giving to overcome the perception that real art doesn't happen here. http://spill.tanagram.com/2007/03/28/the-city-that-works/ I mean we have 5+ colleges here -one of them Ivy league - and still it seems that nothing good comes from Chicago? Scott Wilson, UIC grad and amazing industrial designer is based here but he has a Portland office for credibility (he would say that flat out). His company is famous for the Microsoft Kin, Tons of XBOX stuff, Nike plus, and the mythical "courier." http://www.MNML.com. Did you know that?

This, to me, isn't a penis waving contest. It's a brilliant neglected child learning to tell the world that she matters.
He did? What does that mean?
I don't find that the "Google is a one-trick pony" argument holds much water. I'd say that Search, Maps/Earth, GMail, and probably a couple others I'm forgetting are all best-in-class products that were revelatory when they came out. Chrome isn't revelatory, but I'd certainly shortlist it for best browser.

What the author is responding to, and validly (albeit overzealously) so, is a presumption some have that Google can do no wrong. The fact is that most of Google's products aren't much to write home about. Outside their core group of awesome products, Google has been beaten time and again by tiny startups (YouTube is probably the foremost example). But the same is true of almost all big companies.

So no, Google isn't a one-trick pony, it's a four-to-five-trick pony, and if it's really good, it'll add a trick every few years.
Have you by chance installed any of the custom roms on it yet? Makes the G1 feel like a new phone, still the best phone I've ever owned.

That said mine is definitely showing its age and I'm excited for my contract to be up this August.
What you have there is two separate things: the SRI/Sega tests which indicated possible harm to children from 3D headsets, along with product failure of 3D. But I don't think you can draw a causal factor from one to the other, that 3D headsets were a product failure because of harm to children, without introducing more evidence.

There are alternative stories that can explain why 3D headsets, in particular, failed, independent of SRI tests etc.

Computers were much slower, and the visual update speed (presuming gyroscopic control) likely lagged the rendered 3D view quite badly - and IMHO this is a much worse problem that could cause motion sickness, but need not apply to 3D video displayed on a flat surface in a fixed position relative to the viewer.

3D headsets also have significant usability and social use problems. They may be heavy, tiring to wear, bulky, tedious to transport, geeky and exclusionary to use. They may even leave one open to practical jokes, as they may act like a blindfold; or unpleasant surprises. I know my gf hates it when I surprise her when she's wearing headphones.

3D video, meanwhile, normally requires that everyone wear special glasses. That's a fad that gets tired pretty quickly, and turns TV into a more binary watching / not-watching experience.

Personally, I'm not particularly afraid of gaze focusing issues arising from 3D video. I am, however, quite skeptical that it will ever be more than a gimmick that fades after a year or two of hype, while it still has accessory and viewing angle requirements.
What you said, plus it looks really, really nice.
I love my G1. It feels solid.. yesterday I dropped it down a flight of concrete steps and its fine!
links to best roms / verified howto?
Why do you think it is that most of the women in the field are "ass kickers"?
>If you can't afford to pay a programmer, you should probably just work your own ass off.

Are you suggesting that it is unethical for people to work for equity?
Boeing corporate moved to Chicago in '01, but its aerospace engineering and manufacturing teams did not. The heart of that company is still on the west coast.
I've been told by a friend, who's opinion on these matters I dig, that he got his hands on an HTC Legend and said it was "Android done right." I think the HTC Incredible is available now and is of similar design, user interface wise. Apparently the HTC folks are making a lot of head-way there.

I've read some rough review and commentary about the EVO, think you might want to do your homework there.
Your ability to control your focusing was something you learned how to do after your visual pathways were fully developed. For you, your stereograms didn't interfere with your initial development.

As the article says, 3D in moderation for adults is fine. The article is mostly concerned about the development of children's visual pathways during their critical periods.
Last sentence:

"It's a viscious cycle of disappointment - grab the first interesting person you meet there and go somewhere else for coffee."

is completely dead on. People are beyond shallow at 99.9% of these events but they keep on coming back beating that networking ROI drum.

Sorry, being a part of clubs, committees and boards is simply stroking your own ego. Get out, meet people and put yourself in odd and different situations. Relationships formed from these interactions will be the ones that you cherish and keep giving back year after year.
These are wise words. Options for scalability can be a lot easier to make and engineer even if internal services are exposed via an API between each other.
Generative Butterflies from a vector field
The right answer is Nexus One on T-Mobile. I am not a huge fan of tmo's coverage here in San Francisco, but they have the best plans for what you want, I think.

Nexus One because it's unlocked and also: it's the phone that Google employees use most therefore your phone will run the newest builds/features before everyone else's.

When you get it: immediately root it ("fastboot oem unlock"). If you want to do it later, it will wipe your data first. And then toss the latest Froyo build on there - you will have to Google around to find it, but it's really good.
This is way better than the Big Bang Theory episode that did that. Dunno why, but theirs sucked compared to this.
I have found your third point to be false lately, if you're judicious about hiding third-party apps.
The Droid X comes out in July and does not have a keyboard. It's basically an EVO clone.

You're probably thinking of the Droid 2.
"... although butts would seem an inappropriate subject to be broached by a San Franciscan ..."

How can anyone not miss this guy?
I'm also having a really slow experience. I guess I have a lot of texts, emails and photos (thank the interface lift app for that).

The problem is that it wasn't this slow with 3.x, yet I've really not gained any extra features, so it's basically a downgrade.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Main_Page#Dream

If you have a Dream (G1/ADP1) or Magic (MT3G/ADP2?), highly recommended.
I'm looking for someone that is going to drive the site forward without having to watch over them. I'm looking for someone to take ownership of their work. Thus, equity.
Cheap, Portable Cell Phone Add-on Allows for Vision Tests Anywhere
I looked into buying a used Droid off ebay and doing pay-as-you-go on Verizon; no luck, you must have a $30/month data plan to use a smartphone on Verizon.
that's an interesting device. any word on the battery life?
The Droid is a great phone too. I think I like the screen better than that of the Nexus One.

I just can't get into the Evo. If you haven't held one in your hand, you don't understand the size of this thing. It feels like talking into a paperback copy of The Catcher in the Rye.
Note the article was written in 2001.
Or maybe these Republicans are personally invested in a particular ideology, and anything which threatens that ideology triggers the monkey brain's fear-of-other and must be destroyed.

Much like you're trying to do by insinuating that all scientists/professors are lazy, greedy, exploitative thieves who shag their students.
Why Python3 breaks Python2 code
Your question is a little bit weird -- you're asking how horrible your own commute is? Or are you asking why more companies don't have SF offices?

For the latter, it seems obvious that real estate and infrastructure are cheaper in the Valley.

For the former, it really depends on where you live in SF.

If you are driving a car to the Valley, how far are you from the 280 or 101? Does your employer allow you to work your schedule around the rush hours? Are you working for a startup where you are expected to put in long hours and possibly even spend a lot of time with coworkers outside of the office?

If you are taking CalTrain, how far are you from the nearest station? I lived in the Sunset for several years and commuted to Palo Alto; it was a bit maddening, mostly due to the long time it took to ride MUNI to CalTrain. Door-to-door was around 100 minutes, but it was 100x less stressful than driving. Plus, I could catch up on news/email on the train. On the rare days that I'd drive in, I'd arrive at work already feeling beaten down.

While it's true that there's plenty of cool stuff going on in the Redwood City-Sunnyvale corridor, I still prefer life in SF. I'll speculate that you'll hear a lot of startup-centric people here bagging on it, but to each his own.
Oh, Google doesn't appear to be developing Nexus One any further, unfortunately. So, IIWY, I'd avoid it.
I'm always amazed every time I read or watch interviews or talks by Catmull for his incisiveness.

It's so rare to find someone who's both technically and organizationally brilliant, with a track record as phenomenal as he has had at Pixar.
Definitely: customers aren't thinking purely about cost, but instead about cost:benefit ratios. Saying "we can do it cheaper" implies not only less cost, but—through an intuition that you're charging what the market will bear—less benefit as well. Instead, prime them by first telling them of a greater benefit ("we've solved your problem 1000 times for 1000 companies, while you've only solved it once; we know more about your problem than even you do" etc.) and only then cancel out the intuitive expectation of greater cost.
If you have your own website, and an OpenID provider (you do if you have a Google account), you can use your domain as an OpenID uri by adding two lines to the
<head>
section of your homepage. For example:

<link rel="openid2.provider" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud?source=profiles" >
<link rel="openid2.local_id" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/<username>" >

I find that it's much easier to remember my own domain than https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

Source: http://smarterware.org/6286/how-to-set-up-openid-on-your-own...
If you read what I wrote, you'll see that I said that once you're already solid on gaze coordination, then I think 3D video that you could easily track wouldn't do harm. Those are caveats, and are probably related not just to age, but individual capabilities (as I said I'm just an anecdote).

Secondly, if you read the article, you'll see that it's titled "3D video hazardous to your health", not "3D video hazardous to your kids' health". The article also conjectures that "one can surmise that it’s also never too late to learn bad habits that could create visual problems". So, if you read the article carefully, you'll see that it is not mostly concerned with the development of children's visual pathways, but rather is interested in promoting fear for adults too.
For my money the Incredible is tops. I love the form factor. Feels good in hand. Very similar form factor (and DPI) to the iPhone 4.
Hi Tptacek, My point in the post was comparing corporate headquarters. I responded to a similar comment on spill. I'm pretty sure (though haven't researched) Gap and Levi's don't manufacture in SF. I've worked in Seattle with the fine folks at Boeing and agree they are the guts of the company. The money still comes from Chicago.
Living in a civilized country (europe) I can only shake my head whenever I read about the issues the supposed "last remaining Super Power" has with their mobile networks.

Over here we get annoyed when we stumble into an area without HSDPA coverage which makes our data-rate drop from 400 kB/s to around 30 kB/s...

But dropped calls and such are mostly an unknown. I can't remember having ever experienced one except when driving through a tunnel with the car. Our main network (t-mo) is pretty much everywhere until you drive really far out into the woods. Even in rural areas my phone gets to choose between 2-3 networks most of the time. Smaller networks have roaming agreements with t-mo, so phones just seamlessly switch as needed.

You americans have my pity.
Getting started with clojure can be tricky but the real hurdle is the language itself. It's beautifully designed but it's founded on some powerful but difficult concepts. Functional programming, iteration via recursion, multimethods, concurrency, macros, sexprs, the whole java stack under the hood you really do have to understand.

I'm all for making it as easy on the noob as possible but clojure will never be blub. It makes the hard problems easier but the price is that the easy problems are harder.
Why are you glad you don't live here? Just curious.
Spontaneous generation!
wow ok... haha, I always thought the term (used widely in Taiwan too) came from soccer...

Perhaps the coincidence that there is a cantonese term AND it also stands for Player Kill made "PK" take off?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pk
This is what I referred to:

http://www.abcstores.com/about.htm
I only know of one, in java, http://www.ontopia.net.
One simple request: Can you please make sure you provide adequate counseling about the tax implications of 'working for equity' that given an already-launched product can be quite onerous?
> That's a straw man. He said: "it's probably impossible to structure any kind of discussion without introducing [a fallacy]". Because you can't avoid fallacies doesn't mean that pointing to (some of) them is pointless.

Here's his full sentence: Human language and the totality of knowledge is not a formal system with complete rules and non-contradictions, therefore not only will an elimination of fallacies not lead anywhere, it's probably impossible to structure any kind of discussion without introducing one.

The key bit to me is "therefore not only will an elimination of fallacies not lead anywhere." You may be right about his larger meaning, but I take that part of the sentence to mean that there is no point in eliminating fallacies ("not lead anywhere").
Getting Started with HTML5 Local Databases
Speaking of ELPA. For some reason, ELPA did not work for me on MacOsX. I have just bought a mac, have no prior experience with it (my latest experience with an Apple computer is from early 1990s), so that may partially explain it. ELPA on Ubuntu was a snap, however.
P.s. Boeing was a "performer" in this program. Awesome stuff. http://augmentedcognition.org/
I agree with the spirit of the post, but not (many of) the actual points. Look at the list of languages the author points to in the first paragraph: PHP, Python, Ruby and Objective-C. Only one of these has anything remotely close to an "officially sanctioned experience" and that's because it's a proprietary system.

His first complaint is that getting started with Clojure involves starting a REPL and that this is not how actual development is done. Well, no, it isn't. It is however, where you will spend most of your time. Not only that, but the most accessible documentation on both the Ruby and Python official sites mostly involve using a REPL. Clojure's only problem is that running the REPL is slightly more involved. Also, Clojure 1.1 is not already outdated and I'm not sure where the author got this idea. 1.2 will have some great features, but AFAIK will be completely backwards compatible. I'm not sure where a beginner would even learn about 1.2 without some serious internet trolling.

Next the author complains about how difficult obtaining Clojure is difficult. There is a "Download" link right on the clojure.org homepage that lists zip files for both 1.1 and 1.0, both of which include the source. This is less difficult than getting Python or Ruby, which involves downloading and installing a pre-compiled binary or compiling it from source. Also, the author complains about 1.2 not being available, even though 1.2 has not been publicized and is still in beta; true beginners probably don't know that 1.2 even exists.

The author complains about the fact that there are a whopping three choices for IDEs for Clojure, despite the fact that each of these IDEs also have plugins for Ruby, Python and PHP. There are no fewer IDE choices for these languages. If you ask most Rubyist which IDE you should use many of them will tell you TextMate, and editor that is neither free nor cross-platform. The author then brings up Xcode; well, of course every Objective-C developer uses Xcode, they don't have much choice. Clojure's myriad of IDEs is not a problem unique to Clojure.

Build systems, again, I don't think this problem is unique to Clojure. Where is the great documenation for Rake? Or Buildr? What build system do Pythonistas even use? Seriously, I've been using Python for a while now and I have no idea if there exists a canonical build tool. Comparing these platforms to the likes of Objective-C and .NET in terms of tool support is just unfair, in my opinion.

Like I said, I agree with the spirit of the post. Clojure is not an easy language to get into, but it has very little to do with the points the author made. Much of the cognitive load involved in getting started with Clojure has to do with the fact that it's a Lisp and most programmers are used to ALGOL syntax and Object Oriented semantics. Another thing to keep in mind is that Clojure is an incredibly young language. Much, much, much younger than Python, Ruby, PHP, Objective-C or even Scala. Taking into account Clojure's youth it's amazing that it's as far as it is.
C'mon. Someone calls your mama fat and it's bad to disagree?
arguments do not hold:
-sale data form OEM partners and Mobile Operator partners not google

To give you an idea:
-MS sells Windows OS units 7 per second
-Google is distributing android OS per device units at 2 per second
-Apple is at 2 units per second all Apple OS versions combined

Neither Google or Apple is a one trick pony..this is what is scarring MS, RIM, Nokia..

and Verizon just turned down Apple's offer..no iPhone on Verizon networks
I lived through all that history and I don't remember it all as being that way. I would classify this as 'any idiot can throw some shit into a blog post and pretend its a definitive history of what happened'.
For marijuana this may be true--marijuana is easily identifiable and it only takes a little bit of networking to "know a guy". For other drugs this is emphatically not true--LSD, for instance, has faced supply-side crackdowns to the point where it's very difficult to find on the street, and additionally, no easy way to distinguish supposed LSD from other hallucinogens.
I had the Moto Droid on Verizon. Hated it, too many little poorly implemented things (IMO).

I just got an HTC Incredible a few days ago, and so far it's very tolerable.

Android stil does not, IMO, have the usability and polish of the iPhone, but the HTC UI is pretty good overall.
List of articles on nootropics
Seriously dude, your mama is fat. :-P
APIs need a framework like CRUD does. Too many unqualified people are making unusable APIs. Biz dev doesn't help either; please don't make me request access by filling out a form, verify my identity at the access key generation step, the standbox should be world reachable and treated as anonymous ftp at all times.