skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what sense is "mere political news" distinct from an "ominous sign" of "today's broken system" that will "indirectly [affect] all of us?"

These submissions are getting really tiresome, not least because of the way discussions proceed: the article is submitted, it's silently upvoted by people who agree with it, and everyone who disagrees posts comments explaining why. This was the pattern on the "Why I'm Not Hiring" submission a while ago; nearly every comment explained the many idiotic deficiencies of the article, but it was still a highly upvoted submission because of people who agreed with its substance.

Very annoying.

edit: And now I'm getting silently downvoted too, in the mirror image of the above phenomenon. Excellent.
I've yet to see an example.

EDIT (adding an appropriate - though ancient - quote and reference):

"Internet commerce appeals deceptives (sic) to a particularly male fantasy. Guys like the idea that after a short initial period of programming, a computer will tirelessly slave away for them, making them money 24 hours a day. Set up the site, walk away, and watch the money pile up in your bank account.

You can feed this fantasy by reading articles in the business press about http://amazon.com, the perennial poster children for Internet commerce. They set up what is essentially a front-end to a wholesale book distributor's database, and now they are selling books every few seconds. It sounds like they are rolling in money.

Well, it turns out that I know some people who work at amazon.com. The customers don't always fill out the forms exactly right. The books aren't always in stock like they should be. The customers send e-mail asking when their books are going to be shipped. So instead of one Unix box and a big vault for the cash, the company has 200 employees sucking all the money out of it. And remember, this is the best that anyone has really done: high expenses and high sales. More typical is an Internet store with high expenses and low or no sales."

http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/53002.htm
While this is a decent article in its core argument, it's a bit misleading in some of the details.

Methods are not true closures, and can't be passed directly to higher-order functions.

You can trivially wrap a Java method in a fn, and Clojure has syntactic sugar (the #() notation for anonymous function literals) to help with this.

Slow numeric performance.

This is true in the 1.2 release, but the next version of Clojure addresses this problem in (IMO) a very elegant way. Search on the mailing list for discussion of the num branch for more information. If numeric performance concerns your problem domains, please use the branches that resolve this.

Slow startup time.

Yes, the JVM starts slowly. I restart Clojure REPLs about once a week. I don't exactly notice this problem. Clojure isn't like Python or Ruby or Perl, where you start new interpreters all the time.
Exactly, my cable ISP is Cox and they have been traffic shaping for years. That means my neighbor's PornTube traffic already has priority over my FTP session to a clients server.

Its underlying traffic shaping method: at times of congestion,
all “time-sensitive” traffic – which it defines to include Web pages,
voice calls, streaming video, VPN tunneling and games – would not be
delayed. However, less time-sensitive traffic, including FTP transfers,
network storage, P2P, software updates and Usenet groups, could be.

http://connectedplanetonline.com/residential_services/news/c...
Forth. It's called Forth. As in Go Forth.

And Forth is a concatenative stack language.
Wow this is super I found a redirect on the pricing page that redirected to the signup. Fixed that. http://www.reedge.com/features/pricing-sign-up is not working (not that is has a price anyway since its in beta).

No just to find out the problem with the video I do not see it.

Its the goal to show most without registration.
I once saw a couple of beggars in Barcelona sitting with three pieces of card propped up next to a wall. The cards each had a title: whiskey, wine, and rum. It raised a chuckle out of me and I did give them so money.
Do you really think the probability of someone that caused a fatal accident with a low BAC being charged with manslaughter was the same in 1960 and 2005?

As to being significant looking at different crime rates you tend to see similar trends but the "peak" year is often different. You can try to interpret it to mean something, but the reality is your looking at an imprecise estimate of an imprecise estimates of a highly random event it's really vary random after the first digit.

1991 Forcible rape 106,593
1992 Forcible rape 109,062
1991 Robbery 687,732
1992 Robbery 672,478

Now look at which crimes rates up vs down from 1992 to 1993 etc.
You can block your profile from coming up in searches with Facebook's privacy settings.
If the US is bankrupt and we don't know it, does it not then mean that the consequences of being bankrupt are trivia enough that we should not worry about bankruptcy?
Find works in Firefox.
This is assuming I used my real name on Facebook.
I could be crazy :) I am sitting in a coffeeshop relaxing and spending money from my income-generating business, while I watch worker drones go to work with scowls on their face, awaiting to be blamed for failing profits at their company.

Oh and if you think inflation is near 0%, you're not as smart as I thought you were ;)
Series B Lessons Learned
isn't verizon's LTE network bound by Google's neutrality conditions from the auction?
It is the number one issue affecting business in America today, and this is a particularly interesting economist weighing in with very strong language.
But this article isn't "news" about US bankruptcy - it's one-sided polemic. The US can't default on its debt in pretty much any scenario, because its debt is denominated in a currency it can print, and even more so since deflation looks like the problem, no inflation in sight; but that's only the beginning of its one-dimensional perspective, and it really doesn't belong here.
0 is a lower bound for interest rates because almost nobody would make that loan. The "rational actor" theory has some flaws, but it's a safe economic assumption that actors are rational enough to not throw away money like that.
I don't understand Node's architecture enough to know what the problem with OpenSSL is for you, but OpenSSL works just fine async, as you've noted. I use it in my async ObjC web testing tool, EventMachine has it down to a single "start_tls" call, and presumably Twisted got it working too.

I want to be careful not to say you're wrong about OpenSSL for Node.js. But OpenSSL itself pretty much works fine async.
Personally I have no problem using Google products, and if I did have then I'd go with github (in fact, I'd go with github over Google Code now, too). Just found it funny that the project offered as a solution to not wanting to use Google was hosted by Google.
I've got like 5 different tutorials over the web that say otherwise. More importantly, any Rails book is going to be out of date in less than 3 months.
If you've not got much experience within an industry, it's really easy to overestimate the average skill level of others in that industry.

It sounds like your problem isn't your lack of qualifications or your lack of connections; but the fact that while you have identified that connections can be a good way to get work, you (appear) to have decided not to make the effort to start building them.
Can you build your product with one command?
We do not promise conversion rates but its always possible to prove or disprove hypothesis that people have on changes on the site. So its worth something to know that your new homepage is lowering conversion.

But its true that that will not justify becoming a reedge.com client eventually. People wanna see double figure improvements. So this gonna be a hard one.

But we will see on the way how people use reedge.com and see how the positioning of the product will go. Its now Conversion Rate Optimizing, but maybe geo-targeting, analytics, funnel optimization or whatever is the way to go... we will refocus.
No I haven't, but people were stalked before the internet existed.
You're filling up at the wrong gas station, man. Oil is about half the price it was before the recession.
I still puke a little bit in my mouth whenever I read the name PubSubHubbub. Is there an award for "Worst Protocol Name Ever" I don't know about?

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of pubsubhubbub, especially from a resource consumption POV, but the name? Never got it.
The problem is there is a 50-50 rest running now. So 50% see it 50% not. I should have said that. Otherwise I cannot prove if it works :-)
I have consistently argued that, although I find these compromises entirely fair, that others are perfectly reasonable to challenge them on their merits.

In general, most of the criticisms that I have read start with the assumption that any compromise is a bad thing, rather than addressing the specifics of this proposal. Such thinking is an entirely unfair, and in many instances begs the question. (Google's compromises are evil because only evil companies compromise on this issue, because compromise is evil).

Far better critics (see the EFF's rational and reasonable critique of the policy proposal) are being drowned out by the extremists, and, as a result, I suspect they are going to marginalize themselves and (tragically) their more reasonable peers.
Your the other 50% that sees it :-)
True, it allows people to buy more tomorrow with the money they have today. So what happens? They don't spend the money today waiting for tomorrow. But then tomorrow they realise that if they wait a little longer they'd spend even less.

The end result is that nobody spends for anything that is not absolutely necessary. Hence most companies have an excess of supply: they fire people, and discount they current production.

Now that more people are out of a job and therefore can't spend much, and the discounts have driven inflation even deeper, even less people spend their money.

It's a vicious cycle. It's what's happened to Japan for the last decade, and it's not a pretty place to be in.
Maybe switching to Mac would be a better comparison.
Clickable: http://tudu.us/

By the way, my McAfee SiteAdvisor goes red when visiting your site.
True (I knew that would come up). But I don't need to know how TCP/IP works to write a web page. Likewise, most people know how to put gas in their car, and some can change their oil, antifreeze and tires. There's a difference between zero-knowledge, and working knowledge.

I am not quite sure at what points these types of knowledge are equivalent.
The issue people are upset about isn't what Verizon was willing to commit to -- obviously any concessions from them that move toward an open and neutral internet are a positive step.

The problem lies in the commitments Google appears to be willing to make. The compromises that Google have laid out are clearly not a worst case scenario, but I personally hope for a better policy than "it could be worse" to emerge from this discussion.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be:
anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Please don't submit comments complaining that a
submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think
something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its
page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will
see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag
something, please don't also comment that you did.
1.) You're (like most people on this board) are confusing technology gains with monetary phenomenons.

2.) We went from a mainly single-income family in the 70s to dual-income family today. Notice how most household today goes to hell if even one parent is laid off.
Have you ever actually taken part of an online discussion?
Even better: Go build something you're interested in.
It needn't be important, just fun for you.
I don't really know much about node.js other than casual reading about it. Is there a use case for it for developers who know Twisted / EventMachine well? In other words, can it provide something those frameworks can't?
Indeed services is great while working on an app. I am thinking of going into services using my app. That way we smooth out bugs while making income :-)
Ask HN: Any stigma associated with a .CO domain?
I've got a cool idea for an app that I'm working on, and the perfect name isn't available as a .COM. Somebody has it--but they aren't doing anything with it. They've also ignored my communication to them--which is fine.

So, the "new" .CO domain is open for this domain. Think that's ok? I haven't seen too many of them yet but maybe they'll get going soon enough. I know of http://duck.co and that's about it so far.

Any thoughts? Thanks!
Do an internship at a startup & read/write loads of open source code. Worked for me (I'm 20, without a degree).
They abhor it but they may never have tried it. A lot of other workers have collectively bargained and received higher pay and other non-pay benefits.

Also, it's not like you have to form a union or anything. Just collectively bargain for a raise or whatever this one time.
Yahoo talks social graphs, data analytics and Hadoop
Yeah, I noticed that this morning on the Charlotte, NC homepage as well. I googled a bit, and didn't see any news on it (I figured a Craigslist redesign would be pretty big news). Glad to see someone else is seeing this, too.
Isn't that what Excel is for? Seriously... I worked for a company that was developing a web app for small businesses for their business processes, and its amazing (and appalling) how many small businesses use Excel spreadsheets for everything.

Even now I work on a product that manages data, and all the customers think a "data export" is a CSV file. I've run into some folks who think the app stores its data in "special spreadsheets"!

And frankly most small businesses don't care that Excel spreadsheets aren't all that great. They work well enough. The market has an education problem more than anything.
I taught myself to program and got my first programming job during the dot com bust. I've since become a manager and have done a lot of hiring so I can speak to both sides.

First, don't worry about not being as good as "us". Most likely we're not applying to the same job as you, and most likely we're not looking for a job at all. Most resumes I get, and interviewees I interview are absolutely awful. The bar really isn't very high, you just have to get to the phone screen.

So how do you do that? Build something real and be able to talk about it. You need to be able to point to something and say "I made that". It can be open source or it can be your own website, a free mac app, iphone game, whatever. Then, focus your applications to job postings that align with your skills and background, and write a cover letter about the thing you built. The cover letter will help the reviewer overcome the lack of experience on your resume. Most job postings ask for someone with n years of experience. Ignore that, just ensure that they are looking for a junior person so you don't apply when they are really looking for a senior person.

Focus on smaller companies. Big companies have HR departments that review resumes and they primarily look for x years of experience with J2EE blah blah blah.

Be willing to take less money than someone with experience if all else fails. There are a ton of people out there that want to hire a programmer, but don't want to pay $70k for a junior developer. If all else fails, go to one of these places and make 40k or whatever, and within a year you'll have job experience on your resume and you can easily get a new job for more money.
Maybe temporary in the sense that once the driver is out of the naked area, back to the "forgiving road" where any obstacle that might possibly hinder the flow of speeding automotives has been removed, the alertness probably falls back to zero again.

I don't think it's temporary in the sense that everything goes nicely for the first year and then everyone gets back to normal and accidents increase again.

I think that once you're sloshing through flocks of living people with your car and never get a chance to actually clear your way and speed up over 10-20km/h, I suspect that you will always become alert whenever you hit that area.

Conversely, walking around in an area where there are 1.5 ton blocks of moving metal without ever getting a chance to actually become absorbed in your thoughts and ignore the environment that you're in all together, you'll certainly feel less secure because you never know what's coming next and from where.

Because there's no "known" in the equation and speeds are forcibly slow, people are both more careful and more able to stop their vehicles before anything happens.
> For example, the problem of determining whether a graph has a Hamiltonian cycle is in NP; given a path in the graph, it is fast to verify whether or not it is a Hamiltonian cycle.

Submitter is a bit out of touch with reality if he thinks "Non-Mathematicians" will get that example. Nice read overall though.
Don't get me wrong. I'm the last person to suggest we're unsinkable. I'm only pointing out that our troubles become the troubles of everyone else, just as our success has influenced global economic success.
That's true, but it doesn't imply that charity is irrational.

If you derive utility from giving money to charity (e.g., you enjoy warm fuzzy feelings) then it is completely rational to do so. Charitable giving is a consumption good just like video games, playing soccer or shopping for clothes.
Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE vs. Opera vs. Safari
People who are good at math, but not mathematicians, will get it. There is very little hope of explaining P and NP to people who feel nervous in the presence of math and don't want to hear what a "polynomial" is.
I've got to agree with the animal rights groups. Maybe not for the same reasons though.

An animal can be damaged by an irresponsible renter- killed, traumatized, injured, de-socialized. Unlike a rental car or TV, we cannot simply throw out the broken ones (I should hope you agree with me there)

Complicating things even more, the odds that you're not going to know how to interact with a pet go way up if you don't HAVE a pet!

While animals are not people, they are similar enough to people as to be completely different from 'stuff', and if you cannot deal with the responsibility of caring for a pet I do not think you should have one at all.

(In a controlled environment that can include supervision and a responsible figure who knows what they are doing, perhaps it could work, but not if you're taking them home for a week or such)
Interesting article.

2-year Universities: Who made up the rule that we have to attend college for 4 years?

Tertiary education does take a hell of a long time in the US. In my field, and in my generation, most UK students got their PhDs around 24-25 years of age; for the US students it was more like 27-28. Yes, if that is a real effect that would definitely be a problem.

I can think of two factors that may be affecting this (I have no data):

1. The level of the student arriving at college. Yes you can probably get a professional degree in 2 years with no holiday breaks, provided your college doesn't have to teach you basics.

2. The fact that US colleges cost so much money potentially create a vicious cycle - you need a job to pay for college, which means you need enough spare hours in which to work, which means you have to space out your courses, which means you need more money etc etc.

I would be certainly interested in views from US graduates as to why they feel it takes so long.
It's true that some are just eye-catchers that distract.

But that bridge sign in the article? It's not for when you CAN see the bridge, it's for all those times in inclement weather when you CAN'T.
from the FAQ:

* Where do you ship?

We do not accept orders outside the United States.

* Why no international orders?

It is expensive and difficult to track international packages.
Sometimes I wonder if A/B tests we run suffer from this syndrome.
Vote on the new DreamIt startups
Where does this come from? It's nice to have alphabets, but you still have to learn kanji... All that aside, it is ranked as pretty equivalently difficult to Chinese by a lot of sources. (foreign service, etc).
W3C: The Messaging API Draft
It sounds like both approaches are ways of dealing with the same root problem: attachment and the illusion of control.

IMHO, renting vs owning isn't the real issue. They're both just different ways of financing. The issue is the overdeveloped attachment people get to the "stuff" in their lives.
So, the future of less traffic congestion is to be like the developing countries:

India:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM

Vietnam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5Gssaxl6g

Hmmm... I'm not sure about this, Batman.
> this kind of code is quite common due to the design of almost every Lisp

Scheme != Lisp (maybe a "lisp")

I was trying to figure out what you mean from a Common Lisp perspective. Are you referring to the author's example?

All of Clojure's collections can be treated as if they
were a list, and you can write algorithms to traverse
them using the same pattern of empty?/first/rest that
you'd use on a list. This means that all the powerful
higher-order functions like map/filter/reduce work just
as well on a vector as a list.

Just off the top of my head, CL's map and reduce can operate on lists or vectors. Pretty much anywhere you see the word "sequence" in the spec, you can work with a vector or a list (and several other types). I can understand the point that it might be awkward in Racket; does it get awkward in CL?

I cannot speak for Racket/Scheme's limitations, but I am looking to see where Clojure might be a better choice for me than CL other than interoperability with Java. I have not seen a good data structures argument yet.
Observing Ramadan, There's a New app for that
Or a Hamiltonian cycle...
I graduated from a major US university, and was going to reply to the 2-year idea anyway. I think, while many students do take jobs, most of them are happy (for now) just to amass loans and bank on (increasingly difficult to secure) future employment. For some the vicious cycle you propose might be an actual improvement.

What I'd like to see is major Universities taking some of the ideas used in technical colleges: goal (job/career) oriented degrees, focus on actual experience, and for the love of all things sacred don't require (for example) CS majors to take dance appreciation and psychology. Students could shave a year or two off the time it takes them to graduate, and in doing so save themselves a lot of money. All without harming the "integrity" of the degree.
Are you using the unofficial API (pyrfeed) or Google Ajax feed API?I've played with both last year and first one was broken, second one had limited commercial usage.
Ask HN iPhone vs Android dev revenues
iOS and Android coders,can u share ur experience on apps, revenue,framework ease of use, tools needed?
Very cool first app! Congratulations on shipping something awesome.

One feature you could add is the ability to set your mpg. My car, unfortunately, gets nowhere near 30mpg.

You could also have a google maps display that shows the calculated route by car, bus, or airplane.

Good luck!
I believe the big deal is that you are asking "regular folks" to weave in and out of traffic on a bicycle on the way to work. Not to mention all of the other hazards with the bike lane, at least in DC area, such as being the wasteland for crap left over after the plowed snow banks melt. I'm usually comfortable on even the worst roads but wouldn't want my wife to bike to work on many of them.