skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I understand it, the Rails team recommends not trying to use 1.9.1 with Rails 3 -- too many problems. Recommended versions are 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 pre-releases.
"Over the coming months, we’ll be advancing current projects and working to simplify the way we work in order to deliver products and services faster, and with a laser focus on quality."

That sentence is particularly vacuous. Who do they think they are fooling with crap like that?
Fair. There are some places where men have a tougher time. Daycare provider is one. Figure skating and porn star are probably some others. But all up, it's still not even close.
If you could come up with a definition, that claim may have some content.

E.g. should the (sexual or otherwise) behaviour of ants or ant hills be classified as emotional?
"When he solved the Poincaré conjecture, he ignored the peer-review process and simply posted his three-part solution online." That is far more interesting I think than the fact that he rejected the prize, given that he rejected awards before.
Please show me your group-beginning and group-ending code.
That's a very accurate observation, and there seems to be an opportunity for Google to make a great social networking product here. Current social networks are all pretty terrible at solving the problem of different groups of friends/identities, so people end up using twitter for some stuff, facebook and linked-in for other.
These are all valid points, but I think you're overstating the case a bit. Certainly, IP creation should not be routinely outsourced, but it can be outsourced in limited cases to the benefit of the organization.

I think there's a common misperception that outsourcing firms charge higher rates because their resources are (supposedly) more technically proficient. But, at least at my company, this is rarely what's going on. Most of my clients have excellent technical staffs. Our clients hire us in part, of course, because we are talented technologists, but the larger part, I believe, is because of our ability to acquire domain knowledge rapidly and our ability to retain that knowledge over long stretches of time when we aren't actively involved in the development process. Finding a comparable resource to hire or contract is so onerous that it doesn't make sense when what the company really needs is to achieve a goal now.

In other words, any product development company worth a damn hires as much for business acumen as it does for technical acumen. Otherwise, what would be the point?
This was already done by Facebook and I assumed removed for liability reasons. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehog

Though I do agree that the distributed nature provided you have encryption will make it very hard to catch people sharing files. Though if you stream the videos/images/books from your site to read/watch them you can get caught at that point(If ISPs complied with CopyRight enforcement strategies.)
Yeah, I did. It was pretty much, "LOOK AT THE SHINY. LOOK AT THE SHINY SHINY. NOW SHUT UP. SHINY."
An ad filter is a good idea.
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/employment/jobpat-eeo1/2...

With a couple significant outliers (most in men's favor, but not all), it's actually pretty close. Though I'm not sure what "professionals" relates to.
I don't even understand the point of your ad-hominem.

The author is being formulaic. So what? She is a one-issue writer, and therefore her opinions are incorrect?
Capturing subtly different – yet beautiful and distinctive photographs
Celery 2.0 released
"I would not expect any new major software effort to be written in Lisp."

How many companies have purchased companies whose flagship is developed in Lisp only to shutdown or redo all Lisp work? WTF is this pattern? Is there a name for it?

(and that doesn't count the companies that did it to themselves like Amazon)
The 1932 data described in the article is important because it covered nearly the entire population of a country for a particular age group -- uneven data collection could not have skewed the results. Uneven data collection is the great enemy of psychological public policy, since politicians can so conveniently project their dispute onto the people that were not sampled. The 1932 Scotland data slams that door shut.

Other testing programs since then have showed a slow, steady rise in the average IQ, called the Flynn effect. However the relative shapes of the male and female histograms have been quite constant. (Ditto for the relative shapes of the racial curves.)
Good too know. I would like to give Lisp a try, but I've only just being able to sell a php shop on migrating to python/django. Lisp is a near-impossible sell to every web dev shop I've worked in.
So, I've worked out the Javascript problem several times in my head. Could it be because num is in a difference context when it is being called by setTimeout()?

I just can't figure it out, and it is bugging me. (Guess I won't get the job...)
heh true, but I dont think those groups are mutually exclusive either.
Philosophy ceases to be philosophy when its claims can be tested empirically. The major branches of science (physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, etc.) were once considered topics in philosophy, but are no longer. It appears that Philosophy of Mind is currently making this transition.

(Edit: Changed "Theory of Mind" to "Philosophy of Mind"... psychology lingo crept in there for a second)
function countdown (num) {
for (var i = 0; i <= num; i += 1) {
var make_cb = function (n) {
return function () {alert(num - n)};
}
setTimeout(make_cb(i), i * 1000);
}
}
I find that if there's something I'll want to read later in the day, I just leave it open in a tab, and if it's something that I'll want to read some other day, I just star it, and it will appear in the "recently bookmarked" menu. The idea of using the bookmarks bar as a shelf is kind of interesting, but I think I'd still rather have the screen space.
I think most people here are not interested in the main post but the comments regarding Lisp.
Bank Simple actually personalise their email
What an odd little vehicle!

http://www.terrafugia.com/images/photogallery/logo/First_Fli...
http://www.terrafugia.com/images/photogallery/logo/Transitio...

Certainly more practical than many of the "flying car" concepts that have been floated over the decades.

At $148k, however, I suspect there may only be a very small market for this item.
Or rather, postpone creating this job as long as they can ;-)
If you read the book "Learned Optimism," you'll see that the research shows this to be a bad strategy. All things being equal, you're more likely to succeed if you have an optimistic or best case view of things, unless the consequences of being wrong are dire. Pessimistic views tend to be more accurate, but also less successful.
This is what happens when I search for "Donald E. Knuth" in quotes at Google. It didn't pick up Slashdot because I was too literal. Thanks!
Anybody who doesn't think the idea of running the pirate bay out of parliament is awesome, hilarious and/or a gesture they want to make probably isn't voting for them anyways.

They're not going for mainstream votes, they're trying to amp up a small base -- extreme works.
"I would not expect any new major software effort to be written in Lisp. On the other hand, it’s not clear that ITA would have done that, either..."

So ITA (possibly) wouldn't choose Common Lisp again. I wonder if he includes other lisps in that. And does he agree with ITA on that choice?
If you want to re-produce, that is.
Make the most out of social media
Depends on your area- contract to Canada, devs here are making much less than $50 / hr, and are just as qualified to make production apps. The internet makes it easy to hire someone from farther away, just be sure that they share your vision - detailed specs are a must!
Good idea. Make it a user selectable option.
Don't answer challenge questions, bro
I'm at Etsy, we have a new experimental search tool up at:

http://www.etsy.com/explorer

It's server is in clojure but is powered by a massive tag analysis job using cascading. I'll be writing a blog post about this in due time once it matures.

Our "suggested shops" feature is now powered by elastic map reduce and matlab to perform matrix factorization, believe it or not. And, we're working on improved search algorithms. Being able to re-index the whole site in 15 minutes makes iterating and improving the algorithm quickly more possible.

More on our setup here:

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/02/24/analyzing-etsys-data-...

We're going to be writing a lot more about this, and hopefully opening up some of our tooling beyond the JRuby DSL for Cascading we already have.
Before anyone answers, probably best to let people figure it out on their own.
I can't think of a better way to lose a bunch of customers. The funny thing is the dude's mom probably wants an iPad. "Sorry Mom, you can't look at my website."
That is what I suspected. Just wanted to confirm that.
Perhaps fashion more than anything else.

Lisp was fashionable through sometime in the mid '80s or so, when it was "officially" blamed for the failure of the over-hyped expert systems market. (See a bit of that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Winter#The_fall_of_expert_sy...)

The biggest reason, of course, is what some have called the "de-skilling" of IT. The vast majority of organizations view IT as a cost center, and they (want to) view us as interchangeable cogs; this became critical when IT became so big (say, starting in the '80s). Lisp goes very much against that philosophy; as Dan notes, "Acquirers of companies with Lisp software usually make the big mistake of commanding that it must be rewritten in Java."

That's a language explicitly designed by James Gosling for implementing already fixed/solid designs and it fits very well into the humans as interchangeable cogs mindset (not his fault, except in that C++ wasn't really suited to that mindset and Java fixed the intractable problem with C++ for that (manual memory management)).

PG and the failed C++ re-write of Viaweb might be an example of this, Yahoo is said to be a place that doesn't attempt to hire the best engineers and that alone is very telling.
The data are from 1932 but the analysis is more recent:

here is what a group of Scottish psychologists found in 2002 when they analyzed the results of IQ tests given to nearly all 11-year-olds in Scotland in 1932
"One teacher the company interviewed, for example, realized that photos of her with her close friends at a gay bar were being exposed to her 10-year-old students."

Why are the 10-year olds on Facebook (violating COPPA)? More importantly, why is the teacher Facebook friends with her 10-year old students?
Howwl beta 2.0 now up
In terms of pure code, the view returns data, which the controller then can route to the appropriate place to show. In this case the view generates an HTML response, but it could also generate an audio response or a video response.

I understand that from an OO stand point it makes a lot of sense for the view to directly control that, but in a functional world it makes more sense for the view to pass back something which the controller then routes to the user, making it more of a formatting layer than a display layer.

So yes, a functional MVC and OO MVC may have very different meanings.
If Dropbox doesn't want their questions answered, they shouldn't harangue people for up-votes.
Right, which is why the Pirate party is doing it as part of their official political activities.
I think the kind of people who would buy an Android tablet to hack it are probably going to do a lot of surfing on it if it's well suited to the task, since that demographic spends more time on the web than anybody except the Zynga addicts. If hacker types don't end up doing a lot of browsing on a tablet that's flexible enough to satisfy their hacking urges, then it's probably due to serious usability problems.
What's the internal culture of facebook like?
It's not built in, but saying it "should be" is a strong statement, in my mind.

A convenience item, certainly, but a requirement? RSS has a bit of a marketing problem to resolve before I'd say it absolutely must be there.

(Also, you don't have to use Google Reader; it actually produces a reasonable in-browser rendering of an RSS feed, if you click the icon in the URL bar.)
Swedish music industry didn't form its own party though.

I dunno, http://vbulletin.piratpartiet.se/showthread.php?t=15753&... and http://vbulletin.piratpartiet.se/showthread.php?t=20679&... sure comes across as wing-nuttery, no?

And please cut this BS about FUD. I know am pissing against the wind on this forum (and it reflects on my karma as we speak), but this is often down-played side of the community heroes. Maybe some people would like to know, they're a fucking pan-european party now.
Of those two facial morphs, I wonder which people would think had the higher IQ?
When others are fearful, be greedy. When others are greedy, be fearful. - Warren Buffett
i just tried to post this come using the bookmarklet (safari 5) but none of the controls seem to be responsive. #fail
Well, I wish it was more seamless and all encompassing, that would shine even brighter and I keep meaning to try such things. But even so, right now I use Read it Later as the synced list that all the devices can see. For things I'd rather not have cluttering up that list I use two kludges: QR code browser extensions to go from the bigger screens to the mobile one, and "share via email" (or IM or SMS there is barely a difference in general) to go the other way.
Nobody can accuse Mr. Ahmadinejad of being a boring person. Quite the contrary. He was born to be an entertainer.
Why we can't unplug on vacation
lol I guess so
Agreed - as with the men (sex vs. long term mate), there are alternate survey questions that would be interesting.

IMHO, the "less attractive" one looks more athletic.
Using Promathease to Scan Your Own Genome-- Fun Stuff
Err, that's why I linked directly to the comments, not the initial article that was written prior to the announcement.
This does seem obvious, but managing several groups of friends on the computer screen seems like it would be cumbersome and possibly confusing. The implementation has to be pretty damn good for this to work well.

Especially considering that many Facebook users are not very computer literate. (Remember the ReadWriteWeb/Facebook login fiasco?)
I’m not so sure, actually, what should be the default. It’s not a easy question. I know many people who don’t use the bookmarks bar and for them it’s definitely a waste of space. It might just be a sensible to default to not display it. Those who need it and use it might also be those who (like me) know how to show and hide it.

Re: Tabs. I like the bookmarks bar because it is a lot more persistent. After a long day with a lot of open tabs it is very easy for me to accidentally close a tab I actually wanted to read or even needed to read during my regular tab cleanups. That’s why really important stuff gets promoted to the bookmarks bar.
Interesting, Zed Shaw is no longer listed on their about page. I wonder if he quit or was fired.
> The biggest reason, of course, is what some
> have called the "de-skilling" of IT.

I don't buy that. There are countless software shops that are obsessed with programmer skill and productivity, in fact live or die by it, and almost none of them choose a lisp.
Since the code is secret, you have to trust them that, despite having misrepresented signal quality in order to show their phones in favorable light before, this time, they will show a precise measurement.
Exactly at which age will you tell your children that they are getting an imbalanced education and that if they want it, they need to "man up"? 13? 14? 18? What happens to them before then?

I really do not understand why you appear to be putting the onus for getting good, even-handed education on the children and not the system.
Anyone actually read all of this? Some strange theories there, and it's hard to see if they're true/useful or not.
Here's some possible PHP code to do what that Scheme code sample does (I've excluded the HTML for brevity):

$result = $conn->execute('select * from favcolor order by color, name');
while($row = $result->next()) {
if ($result->groupBeginning('color')) {
echo $row['color'].': '.$row['name'];
} else {
echo ', '.$row['name'];
}
if ($result->groupEnding('color')) echo "\n";
}
echo 'Count:'.$result->count();

I just came up that off the top of my head, but there's nothing impossible in there. Also, instead of field name for groupBeginning(), passing a closure would also be possible.
The answer is explained in depth in Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts (Chapter 4, if I remember right).
The abiltity to comment on a "YC Company is Hiring!" thread here on HN is news of a sort.

I'm a very happy user of Dropbox's free products and I'm glad to hear they're growing.
Another very common case is that the app is in maintenance mode; only legally required changes are being made. There's no money to do a UI rewrite for an internal app, especially in the "current business climate".
I've been the PM on a couple outsourced projects and they both shipped on time, in scope, and made the users happy.

It does add some load to the PM side of things for sure - the project has to be really well documented and it is really important to have good communication channels.

I have noticed that the Indian dev team I worked with was a lot less likely to challenge the design / schedule of a project, or ask questions when they don't understand things. This isn't ideal of course but it is manageable by making sure that the team on both sides communicates well and has trust / good relationships.
That doesn't violate COPPA if they have their parents' permission.
If it can't be hosted on the crappiest major shared host provider you could name, it isn't a fit for their goals.

Which means it's a total mystery why they're using WebSocket, but yeah.
But regular books have page turns, and they take longer than the Kindle's page turns. And the article still says the iPad and Kindle are both slower than regular books.

So it must be something else.
Just because he is in the HN spotlight doesn't mean he is fair game for gossip.
Indeed, they've already found good UI people, in the very building they work in: they're being hosted for the summer by Pivotal Labs.
Ask HN: Limitware vs. Freemium
Which leads to more money made: limitware or freemium?

Limitware: get all features for a limited time or limited number of uses (ex. Textmate free for 28 days, 2GB free on Dropbox)

Freemium: get some features free forever, and upgrade to get more features (ex. Evernote, Hulu Plus)

There are even services like Basecamp which are both limitware and freemium (one project free, limited features).

I'm sure the answer is "it depends", but I'd like to here what has worked best for you guys.
Python is going to chug even on relatively simple action games. I did write some 2D stuff in Pygame/SDL and Pygame/OpenGL back in the early-mid 2000s that could do 30FPS, but to do it was akin to writing in BASIC on an 8-bit; you had to micro-optimize in a fairly brutal way, one which obscured Python's powers. Things like rendering a tilemap could get huge speed boosts simply by avoiding nested loops in favor of a cache. Even using OpenGL wasn't really enough to secure a comfortable margin of performance.

If I did it again I would have an easier time because I missed a few critical constructs back then(most notably, the array package). It still wouldn't be pretty, especially not on a phone.
Two dumb, easy ways:

1. Go to Vegas, make some big bets. You'll probably lose it all, but you might not.

2. Lever up and bet on stock options. You'll probably lose it all, but you might not.

And one smart way:

3. Go find a client who needs a website built. Charge him $9000 to do it, and finish within 6 months.
... just like it never ceases to amaze me how copyright can be extended seemingly forever in order to protect entrenched businesses.

How long until Mickey Mouse becomes public domain?
The first thing listed under "Requirements" is "Bachelor's degree in Computer Science", which you would certainly not need to perform this job.
Launch it. The name of the game is GETTING USERS. The sooner you begin that process, the more you'll have in the long run. Even if you only have 5 dedicated, hardcore users, if the product works well for them they will evangelize and spread the word for you. Right now, you're killing that word-of-mouth opportunity by keeping your app private.

LAUNCH IT. When you do, you'll be surprised at how anti-climactic it is and wonder why you spent so much time worrying about it. The reason why you can launch early is because you don't have the same PR blitzes the bigger guys do. Grow slowly, steadily, and introduce the features your users are asking for the most. If you have the staying power, you have a real shot overcoming the other guys, especially since they have to be the ones who make the first major mistakes (think Blippy's PR nightmare a few months back).

Good luck!
As Mahmud mentioned, you still have to know where things are, who is working on what, what's maintained and what's obsoleted by what. Sure.. Based on your choice of packages, you aren't current with these things and consequently had a bad experience. I'd be really interested in a pointer to a production web application deployed on Weblocks, because I'm pretty sure there isn't one (or very few). The choice of CLSQL as the back-end is dubious as well.

In any case, I'm not a fan of using CL as the end to end solution for a web application. It performs far better as the middleware between the web front-end and dbase back-end. From my understanding, this is what ITA does (details in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479107). Who cares that you can't throw up a shiny front end right away if the code that does your business logic is an order of magnitude more shorter/powerful?
IIRC the Top Gear segment was "produced" to show the car out of juice... i.e. don't draw any battery life conclusions from Top Gear's methods!
So, you think the one on the right would have a lower IQ? Yeah, she looks more athletic, but I think she'd have the higher IQ too. Maybe that's just me.
What does the karma here get you? I mean, a higher rated comment might be seen by more, but I don't think your total lifetime karma count effects that at all.
Thanks you guys for your help, I've have already looked though some of the sites you've quoted and it looks like it might be of great help. Thanks
I'm not saying that $5000 didn't go anywhere... About one percent of it was eaten by fees and the rest probably went to make another wager. It almost certainly did not go into anything resembling capital investment as the OP suggests.

I'm not attacking the market system, merely pointing out that the post-IPO "capital" market for a stock does not produce any capital investment but is rather a means for trading wagers on the performance of the underlying company.

Real capital investment is mostly financed by bonds (including government bonds, which the OP appears to dislike.)