skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can find some of the notes from the Summit here - http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Main_Page
... you mean this one? http://www.orkut.com
I second Calibre. I supposedly works for Mac too. I use it for Windows and on my Sony PRS-600. Calibre offers lots of ready-to-use web subscriptions which gathers articles from other websites like an RSS Reader.
Well, if there are no statutes nor established case law precedents that apply to or can be extended to a particular situation, any cases would be more a matter of equity than law. And neither common law nor equity rulings apply a priori; a case must be brought to the court after the fact in order for the court to make a ruling on it. Common law also requires mens rea for any action to be considered an offense.

So even in a situation where a court would award damages if a case was filed and malicious or negligent harm were proved, I'm not really sure it makes sense to say that anything was "prohibited" in advance.
What do you propose as an alternative? A two-line function that tests arithmetic and recursion is useful.
Clojure even goes beyond what java can do with protocols and defrecord is basically a class. So you could almost say its OO from the point of the original description (encapsulation (with name spaces), polymorphism (multi methods). Inheritance you can do with the ad hoc hierarchy system. Its pretty cool. The thing is just in Clojure you only use this stuff when it is useful not like in mainstream OO where you have to drag it along with you all the time and therefor miss out on all the functional goodness (and on lisp/concurrency goodness)

See this short video about protocols (and a little generic method and defrecord stuff): http://vimeo.com/11236603
(you should look at it even if you don't like clojure, it has some interesting stuff in it about the expression problem, and how to solve it in there)
Is it the 30th in another time zone yet?
I guess that's why I'm not in marketing... ;-) I would prefer a statement that conveys that it's an opinion and not empirical fact.
Seattle WA & San Francisco CA

Informed Biometry is a recently-formed, well-funded, stealth-mode consumer web startup, looking for developers and designers. Ground-floor opportunity for smart generalists!

Check out http://jobs.infbio.com/ and email me (walter@infbio.com) if you're interested.
I agree about the download tokens. How they are handled is the only thing I dont like about the safari service. You get five per month and unused tokens last only for three months after which they disappear. So unless you keep track and download some book chapters every month you are likely losing tokens. That being said I think its a compliment to the service that this minor point is my only gripe against it.
Psh, doesn't even have the fastest shoelace knot.

Plus I would say this site is better anyway for knots.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
The weight watchers
You're telling me that "grok" isn't a normal English verb either? What a sad day :-(
GoodCrush is looking for top RoR devs as we gear up for our (re)launch. josh@goodcrush.com
Building SaaSy Voice, a test application for the Apps Marketplace
You need to start collecting leads and driving them down a path to convert. Convert them through teleseminars, webinars, online videos, email marketing, and more. If your just reliant on "hoping" someone signs up and then finally gives you money - you fail.
Props for linking to OpenGazer and Dasher. AEGIS is absolutely a terrific project, and I've been inspired by the work that Emli-Mari Nel and others are doing on exactly this problem.

Something to keep in mind when you're thinking about eye tracking for accessibility is how much custom hardware can greatly enhance the experience. Even if you're just mounting a webcam on a head bracket and removing the IR filter, some inexpensive work can really improve the user interface. (Of course, mounting a camera on your face isn't necessarily conducive to unbiased usability testing!)

One of my greatest hopes, personally, is that our approach to webcam-based eye tracking will yield algorithms and methods that we can give back to the community. Eye tracking has its shortcomings, to be sure, but the potential benefit is too great to be ignored.
Leads360

* looking for developers who know C# and SQL Server

* El Segundo, CA (one mile south of LAX airport)

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/Jobs/7705
Ask HN: Any Startup is working on Windows Desktop Applications?
As a Windows Developer i was wondering does web really take over desktop development ?
P.S I'm old windows programmer
We have learned nothing from the genome --Craig Venter (CEO Celera Genomics)
Rails developers, fluent in haml
We're building something cool. If you are interested, please send me an email - josh@goodcrush.com - open to anyone (in NYC or otherwise) that meets the above criteria.
Twitter list of 480 Hacker News members
The thumbnails are great, but it probably would be better to make getting there more clear. Also, I would put all of the IE screenshots on one row. Great service though, glad to see another option for testing across browsers.
No major ones. Until something goes wrong and every deliberation and discussion about how to respond is dissected and quoted without context in public. I mean are you going to do everything in public? Hiring and firing decisions? Whether to sue someone who screws you over somehow? Whether to change hosting suppliers?

As I write this I'm arguing with myself about the power and value of genuine transparency, it's something I believe in deeply but done asymmetrically, as you are doing verses your competitors or as our governments are doing verses the private sector does provide a huge soft underbelly for easy attack.
Updated to include jmillerinc's user list from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1555866
Lets hope the author does not stumble upon http://www.theonion.com
The Decoy Effect: The Secret to Crowd Control
Here's how to extract and drive your pricing plans for "what you want"
I'm about 4 years out of school (no degree - 3 year diploma + some university). I'm a Canadian looking to go to SoCal preferably. I've been doing iPhone stuff for the past two years - mostly video/image post-processing with OpenGL. Starting on some Android stuff too. I'm more of a "guts" guy than a UI guy though, so I enjoy trying to push these devices to do cool new things. I like C, C++ is okay, Java I need to re-familiarize myself with (due to Android) and I'm getting comfortable with ARM Assembly but I'm still working on getting better at it.
I don't have an alternative that I think is workable. And that's why I'm far from convinced that teacher salaries should be tied to performance; I think the side effects of "optimization by proxy" will be severe.

As an aside, pointing out that something is bad does not put the onus on me to invent something better. The sensible conclusion is to not do anything until something good has been worked out. The alternative is to do something just for the sake of appearing to do something.
"But I learn the most from failure, and easily the biggest lesson, by far the biggest lesson, was focus on the product, make sure that it’s a product that customers want, and customers buy, and that there will be a market there." - http://www.npost.com/2007/01/16/interview-with-don-macaskill...
How is it to work with kawa. I only no that it exists not more. Some question:
1. Can you use it professionally?
2. Whats the benefit over clojure?
3. Does it live close to java and is it still lispy to work with java (clojure does well there I think)
4. How fast is it?
There goes my theory about grep, awk, sed being named after digestive noises.

What's interesting is the history of dd and its completely non-UNIX like argument format e.g., if=/dev/null of=./foo bs=4k: the latter was designed as a prank mocking IBM's mainframe OSes (today's equivalent would be making a FactoryFactory in Python, I'd imagine)
It was coined in the book Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.
Anybody that is prepared to use someone else's name in the tile of an article slinging mud at that person should at a minimum pass a reading comprehension test before hitting the 'submit' button.
A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours
I would think he is happy that he wasn't right
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Grok

Grok is a term from Robert A. Heinlein's book "Stranger in a strange land."

I can see why finding out that these amazing words are not 'official' English could make you sad, but for me I find it amazing and encouraging, as this is exactly the way that some language is formed! They are so full of future potential.

I look forward to seeing what terms 'make it' into major dictionaries in the future.
Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use vim Was Wrong
Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
Exactly. The less mode/context switching you have to do the less stupid syntax mistakes you can make. We made this because we use Python for server-side code and we also want the same language for browser-side code.
Extra credit: how did glob get its name? I've never found an explicit answer, but the Unix 71 manual suggests that it's short for "global".

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/man71.pdf
Considering the rather eclectic nature of the English vocabulary, is there such a thing as a "normal" verb? Grok is exactly the same level as brobdingnagian, i.e. perfectly cromulent.
Laser projector mounted on game controller
:) where is that quoted from ?
But you are not meant to put your index on "h". "jk" are the most used keys, therefore your index should rest on "j", like touch typing wants you to do.
Most of Eliezer's writings about rationality can be found here:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
My favorite book is "How the Internet makes programming books mostly irrelevant"
It's only computationally intensive because you're using the processor on your end to do the work. Why not have a large portion of the work done on the clients machine?
TechCrunch was a fairly predictable example because blogs all tend to have the same format, but landing pages have varying flows and it's much harder to predict.

Also with TechCrunch, I wouldn't have guessed that people would look at the top right ad. I think the fact that it's in line with the top article bar leads people to it.
Programming Scala by Alex Payne and Dean Wampler. It's a great companion to the Odersky/Venners book which is (in my view, which is far from unanimous) better as a reference or a follow-up rather than as a tutorial.
Duly noted. It's a little easier to get there when you you're testing a full site, but we should improve the single URL experience. And thanks for the feedback on the grid.
I'm looking for a full/part-time job either remote or on-site near SF or downtown LA ... or you can invest in my company and convince us to work on your projects. See my profile for more info.
Based in Berkeley. http://p10q.com -- Feel free to ping me, esp. with interactive graphics work. That'd be ideal.
This is slightly random but I'll give it a shot.

I'm a developer with mostly .net experience, but I know and love ruby (rails, sinatra) and would love to use it professionally. I've also been studying iPhone development a bit and have an app, albeit simple, on the app store.

I'm looking for a way to work and live in Vienna, Austria starting in January 2011. Earlier could possibly work too! I don't speak German, but I'm currently studying it and would love a situation that helped/forced me to learn while still being able to get work done. I have about 3-4 years professional experience writing web software, I'm a third of the way through a masters in c.s., and am fun to hang out with to boot. Any one looking for remote help, or help in Austria? Long shot, but I figured I'd try it! My email is in my profile, and I'd be happy to talk about anything.

Thanks!
I always thought the missing where defaulting to all records was a bug in the spec, and would have much preferred it if 'where true' was a mandatory thing on deletes and mass updates instead of the current default.
I want to build a factory for efficiently copying other people's ideas and executing them; that's goal #2, after I execute #1, the project that will get enough revenue that I can put together the team capable of doing #2.
Anthropomorphic terminology --&gt; operational thinking [Dijkstra]
no the just really GROW the language. Some new features somewhere else that they don't understand just trick it somehow in there. convert it to string and back or just stuff everything in some global variable or something. If it breaks you can just make a ugly fix on it with the next version.
Anyone in Prince Edward Island, ideally Charlottetown, with some sort of entry-level technically-oriented job?
Helpful and friendly, thank you. I wasn't really getting the oblique way he was describing it. :)
Must read: http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2006/12/the-case-for-emacs...

Jump to the paragraph "The Dark Side".
I currently have a part-time job that pays the bills, and I want to keep it, but I would be very interested in doing small projects on the side, or jobs that only require a few hours a week (e.g. maintenance).

I'm proficient in Python; I've used the language since ~1996, professionally since 2002, mostly for back-end stuff that runs on servers, scripting, database access, etc. Also GUI programming and IronPython (at my job, we're currently converting existing CPython code to IronPython). I am not an expert on web programming, although I've designed several sites for personal use, and some web apps using Google App Engine.

As I am always interested in learning other/new programming languages, I also have limited experience in e.g. Scheme, OCaml, Ruby, Delphi, C, C++, D, Io, etc.

(My resume can be found at http://zephyrfalcon.org/resume.html, but please note that it's out of date; I haven't updated it since last November, when I was re-hired by Oasis Digital (mentioned on the resume as an earlier employer). I will get around to this, but as I am not looking for a full-time job, it hasn't been one of my priorities.)
That's one hell of a resume.
Wow, I'm glad someone finally cleared up the purpose behind accessibility keywords. Take that, Steve. /s
Are you looking for a project no one has done yet? Or a project to simply learn from? As an HPC programmer I can tell you that there are lots of scientific applications that you could try. However, I'd suggest that you start with something manageable and known to be parallelizable so that you can feel great when you finish it.

I think @jtsummers and @karanbhangui have the right idea, so I'd suggest making the Apache2 mod_deflate module parallel.
I'm white, my biological father is Native American (Chippewa) and I grew up on a Sioux rez (an FYI Chippewa and Sioux / Dakota / Lakota are not friends). It doesn't matter what color your skin is if you grow up in an area where you are not the majority.

I really find people who make a judgement based on a datum to be in error most of the time. You are <insert category here> so you have never truly experienced <insert social problem here>.
"Programming Collective Intelligence" is quite good. I like "The Ruby Programming Langauge" if it's something you're interested in. "Learning Python" is probably beneath you but it'd be a good gift for someone who wants to learn programming. I've heard good things about "Real World Haskell" but haven't read it.
Developer burnout: Time to end the 'disposable geek' mentality
This is now available via the downloads page linked from the announcement, as well.
Hey there is a typo on front page: "Using BetterMenas" I assume should be "Using BetterMeans".
The only part worth reading was the first paragraph. Fetid dingo kidneys. Just...wow
I just finished my MSc Mathematics (in quantitative finance). If anyone is looking for a math or finance person that also knows some coding (basic C++, etc) I'd be willing to relocate.
Aging Odyssey Orbiter Creates Most Detailed Map of Mars Surface
I don't see an email link your profile. I'm in Utah myself, might be tempted for the right kind of gig.
OT: but those ThoughtBot people know how to make beautiful websites.
On a similar note, that "Popular" ribbon looks really bad in Chrome. It's like ... fragmented.

http://skitch.com/jackowayed/dq24n/bettermeans-popular
You can now do something very similar on the iPhone 4 because of the front facing camera. Imagine if you can hit-track when someone is looking at an ad. You could have an advertising business model at cost-per-glance. This works great if the ads are mainly for branding impact.
Try http://run-this.appspot.com/ if you don't want to learn SOAP.
Ok, here's what we cobbled up in the last hour
http://rm.bettermeans.com/home/show?page=index
I think I just found this book online as well: http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/
Lol. :)

Actually, I generally feel inferior in the coding discussions here, since I have very little experience with web/networking type stuff and that seems to be what's wanted/used.
subtitle: "And I'll gladly take some of his page views."
I know people who use vim, and are hardcore. Yet anything my hardcore friends can do on vim, I can do in IntelliJ or Resharper. However there are things I use regularly in these tools that vim cannot do.

These questions are asked honestly and sincerely and I'm genuinely interested in reading responses:

At the end of the day, what is the big deal about a modal editor? How does not-having-to-press-ctrl (or alt, meta, cmd, whatever) for the first key give a programmer any advantage? Is it just the number of these commands that are available - and if so, has someone done a count of commands available in products like IntelliJ and Slick-Edit vs vim? What about the stuff that seems to be missing, like contextual refactoring - or are there plugins / scripts for that?

Without any such evidence, it does seem to me that programmers want to use vim because of a reputation that hardcore hackers use it, not because it actually improves productivity.
Spelling mistake on the homepage: the red text should read "Open democratic", not "Open democractic"
Because if you are only using it for reading you only spend about 1/4 as much.
+1 for Alan and his team. worked with them in the past.
Email me at dwilkins@soleranetworks.com
I believe different plans have different terms on the token amount/length - my corporate plan gives me something like 50 tokens to use in a year.
The use of Grok in English is embiggening.
EllisLab launches new CMS - MojoMotor
10K Apart - Inspire the web with just 10K.
It's getting there. Check out http://ccmixter.org/ .
Ubuntu rocks, get over it
It's useful as a benchmark, you just have to be careful about which conclusions can actually be drawn from it.
A clear message for vendors in the SMB technology market
I compiled a more comprehensive list of the apps that could be affected and I'll be updating it when I find out more info:

http://andbot.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/29/android-apps-sus...
I'm sorry I pretty much stopped working with employees and I'm half the world away but with that sort of background you'd almost want to create a thing around you that fits your skill-set.

Physics simulation is a world of its own, and as more and more of this software finds its way on to clusters you can't really avoid the networking portion of writing code (unless abstracted away in MPI or so, but then it still helps to know what's going on under the hood).

With what you already know it shouldn't be too hard to pick up the web bits & pieces but frankly I think your skills are more valuable to the right party than web skills are.
I use dvorak and Vim. You can remap the keys easily enough, here's my vimrc for example:

http://github.com/andrewvc/vim-settings/blob/master/vimrc

I only remapped some of the keys though. Remapping ':' is really useful, I have it mapped to - (which is , in qwerty), which means its only a step away from my right pinky, no shift required.
+1 for having an option to snap routes to nearby roads.
Are you a nonprofit?
Downtown in Rainier bldg.
I built a Chrome extension that meets gist.github.com and ideone.com http://github.com/NV/run-this-gist.
Alas, API doesn't work well in most cases http://ideone.com/tXexT.
Wait... who's the idiot? And it appears like they are playing it off in the comments like they knew this was a joke? Last time I heard "fetid dingo kidneys" it wasn't a haha sort of thing.
Guys, there is a checkbox under "Email Preferences" that allows you to be alerted when your tokens are about to expire! Great feature
"fetid dingo's kidneys" is a Douglas Adams-ism. From _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_, IIRC.
I find it fascinating that people these days are willing to pay (a premium) for less features or less choice.

Well in this case people are paying a lot less for less choice. A kindle/nook/kobo is priced nothing like an iPad.

Having access to both, I too agree eInk is far better for reading. I don't feel like I am paying to have less choice. My nook is a far better reading experience than the iPad. The iPad is a great web surfing gadget, and has some nice games. The fact that they have some overlapping functionality is not that significant, IMHO.

And, I predict these things will be $99 by Christmas, in which case I will be definitely gifting them to my family. I am not paid well enough to be giving away iPads, alas :-)
I use gmap-pedometer to route all of my runs. I probably use it about 2-3 times a week so I've been waiting for someone to build something a bit more versatile and possibly even let me create routes from a mobile phone (this would be a cool feature and differentiate for you).

I've been staring at your site for the last 2 minutes and I can't figure out how to create a route. I think I glanced at one of the comments here and they said single click to drop a marker.... I'll give that a shot. But if I can't figure out how to create a route within 5 seconds you need to find a better way to communicate it.
But you can't put an aircraft carrier on an island unless it has a deepwater dock!
From the HN thread about the O'Reilly ebook sale a couple months ago, I found these suggestions helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368200
It saves me quite a bit of money.

I never buy books until I'm sure I want to read them. When I first got my kindle, I bought more than one book at once, and I regretted it.

Now I keep a backlog of sample books on my kindle. When I finish my current book, I can pick something from the many sample books I have, and if I like what i read, I buy it right then.

Of course, I tend to carry my kindle quite a bit out and about when killing time (auto shop, kids swim lessons, etc)
Constructive criticism:

1. Not sure about the artfully-dishevelled glamour shot. Something is offputting about it, though I can't put my finger on what it is.

2. "I love being the smartest person in the room, but humbly accept when I am not and love to learn knew things" sounds a little egotistical. I would be concerned that a person who said that might be a little too eager to believe themselves to be the smartest person in the room, even when they're not.

3. You're very specific about what you can't do: "not a genius software engineer or computer science major... not able to program the next Facebook..." but very vague about what you can do. You claim that "I can give you ideas as to what should be implemented and understand why", but you don't demonstrate that your ideas about what should be implemented will actually be any good.

4. Convert your resume to html, it's too hard to read in the little scribd box.

5. * “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” W. Dyer* Again, seems a little egotistical; you're handing out platitudes to people whom you want to be your boss.

Anyway, mostly I'd recommend rejigging your website so it puts a bit more emphasis on things you actually have achieved, rather than assertions that you're full of good ideas. And while I'm not calling you egotistical, I do think that your site might give people the impression that you are.
I could see this useful for coding tests during interviews.