skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first page is very ugly. I understand the minimalism, but who is your audience and how do you plan on monetizing this?

People take recommendations from Amazon where they actually buy things.
"i honestly can't think of one that isn't constrained in some form. in modern society, that is. freedom seems to be constrained by the existence of other people."

When has it ever not been? In pre-modern society people still used some for of currency to obtain things. You could technically live a "free" life without money, but your existence would be even worse than it is now.
My interpretation of his comment is that by "raise your views" he meant "express your opinions publicly" (using the "bring to the surface" meaning of raise), not that your opinion of Yahoo! has somehow changed or improved in the last 2 days.
On native and non-native mobile apps. Apple doesn’t deserve the crap they get.
It wasn't insulting, don't worry :)

I always observe how living in the first world changes the perspective of people... (latest example: " travel doesn't take a lot of money." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601857 ).

And yes, I should :)
...the software industry (as we know it) is only about 30 years old...

Uh, what? The software industry is a lot older than that. The largest companies today by revenue are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_global_soft... and it is instructive to go down the list. Of the 10 listed, 2 have been selling software since the 50s (in the case of Accenture admittedly as part of another company), 1 in the 60s, and 3 in the 70s. So over half are over 30 years old.

Wikipedia claims that the first company founded to provide software products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955. The software industry expanded in the 1960s. Since then it seems to me to have been growing exponentially since. By the early 70s there was already enough accumulated experience for veterans to write classics like The Mythical Man-Month and The Psychology of Computer Programming.

Incidentally I know multiple people who have retired from a lifetime career in tech. They seem to be in a similar position to other retired professionals.
It seems feasible it could work better. If you lift an X lb weight until you cannot lift it anymore, and then drop to X/2 lbs, you can lift again, and can drive your muscles even further into exhaustion.

(whether that's good or bad though, I don't know)
How getting dumped (often) taught me to be a better community manager
And Haskell:

import Control.Monad.Reader

type Action = ReaderT String IO ()

foo :: Action
foo = do
bar
local (const "new state") bar
bar

bar :: Action
bar = liftIO . putStrLn =<< ask

> runReaderT foo "foo"
foo
new state
foo
Very true. My thought process for this has been "trust, but verify". Trust your gut, give it a try, and then see if the data confirms your gut reaction.

I specialize in marketing, and frequently I have to commit large sums of money to media buys without any hard data about whether the traffic will convert or not(beyond basic, vague demographic info). I have to make a gut decision about the quality of traffic coming from a particular site/campaign, and then wait for conversion data to come in before finding out if I was right.

I found that as I gained more experience doing this, and my unconscious absorbed more and more data from past campaigns, I got a lot better at those gut decisions.

Now, most of the time, I can look at any site or traffic source and estimate somewhat accurately how valuable that traffic is and make a quick gut decision about whether it's worth investing in.
In the absence of hard data, being able to make these quick gut decisions is invaluable.
Once you look at the numbers, you realize that beyond a certain size it doesn't matter much.

The standard deviation of health care costs for a company scales like 1/sqrt(# employees). Once (sigma cost) / sqrt(# of employees) << (mean cost), there is little advantage to having a bigger pool.
Audi is sending a robotic version of its TTS sports car to the top of Pikes Peak
Looks like the site's getting hit pretty hard; mirror here:
http://rorr.im/reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d0uoz/
First of all, the "tea party" has no specific position on anything, because there is no such thing as the "tea party" as an organization, with a charter, platform, etc. It is a diffuse movement with no centralized structure of any sort.

It is certain that those who identify themselves as tea-partiers certainly tend to have a lot in common - including a belief in the free market, a political outlook tending towards libetarianism, or lacking that, at least a strict constructionist understanding of the Constitution.

But beyond that, you will find a huge variety of opinions among the group. Some are pro Iraq war, some anti-war entirely. Some are pro death penalty, others opposed to it under all circumstances. I think you will find the same on net neutrality.

I generally identify with the group, but I am adamant that net neutrality must be maintained to protect free speech.
U.S. Navy Laser Weapon Shoots Down Drones in Test [video]
> Enjoying life indeed has nothing to do with what you have

Obviously you have enough food and shelter, or you would be singing a somewhat different tune.

It's hard to enjoy yourself and be happy when you are truly hungry, or cold and wet in the night.

Of course you can be happy with less than luxurious housing, or sub-par food, but have you ever felt the stab of hunger, the wrenching pain in your stomach, not that wimpy little ache you get after 12 hours of fasting?

Enjoying life has something to do with what you have.
Can someone explain to me how they think less than full net-neutrality benefits Google? I didn't understand that argument in this article, or any of the previous ones.
Was "ESR" important to the rise of open source?
Why download this framework/

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USUS293US303&...
>>Maybe 50, working for 2-3 years, to get a usable first cut and basic standard libraries? Paying them an average salary of 100k, that's "only" 15 million dollars.

I think you are underestimating the man-hours and cost. You will need a Google or some other tech giant to engineer this. Why not improve openJDK?
Clojure is unique among the languages I listed because it uses persistent data structures by default (being a functional language), which necessarily generates a lot of transient garbage. The reflection problems are not specific to Dalvik; they unhinted Java calls cause slowdown on the JVM as well. But it's easy to get around this with type hints.
The same goes for Facebook's blatant abuse of the neuter singular "their" instead of "his/her" -- which really can be resolved most of the time since Facebook usually possess people's genders.

Anyway...
i'm getting a page not found for this link.
For people who don't know the story:
http://pauldecowski.com/

I put it up on my domain a while ago because I liked it a lot. Maybe it will be useful for once.
If money matters and innovation doesn't the oil industry is likely a better place to be than tech.
> "(because frankly, with the looks and alleged personality of Bill Gates, how else was he going to get a date?)"

Honestly, that's probably a better description of Zuck than it is Gates. If Bill Gates' goal was to get rich and fuck women, I doubt he'd have settled down so quickly with another coder who worked in his company.

You know, more like supermodels and actresses and such.
Samsung giving $500,000 to develop TV apps
You're talking theoretically about the life I actually lived for the second half of my twenties, living cheaply and supporting myself with occasional bursts of consulting. It was not as easy as you make it sound. I preferred it to a regular job (which leaves you too little time to work on your own stuff), but it was extremely stressful to keep running out of money. With kids it would have been impossible.

How remote the chances are of making money from a startup depend on the person. The probability ranges from a snowball's chance in hell to maybe 90% in the case of someone like Bill Gates. (He was not necessarily going to be the richest man of all, but the likelihood of him not even making enough to be independently wealthy was pretty small.) I can't tell what the chances would be in your case without meeting you, but certainly there are some people for whom starting a startup is a reasonable gamble.

It definitely wouldn't take decades to find out. When startups fail they usually fail in less than 2 years.
i haven't been following close enough to know. if someone really wanted a new stack, the parrot vm is just what immediately jumps into my mind as it is designed for running multiple languages and having them interact.
I'm honestly conflicted on this. On one hand, it's spam, as users are "receiving" messages they didn't solicit.

On the other hand, it's a kind of cool service, as an "enrichment" to twitter messages. If you could find some way of doing it for those who might find it useful without forcing it upon those who don't, I think this could be a great opportunity.
Oracle Berkeley DB 11g R2 introduces support for Android platform (March 2010)
I would expect the cost of building a self-sustaining ecosystem (including libraries, books, conferences, etc.) to be 10x the cost of building the platform itself. Having a charismatic leader like DHH or Shuttleworth would allow much of the ecosystem-building to be offloaded onto the community.
Well, I am too at the moment. He must have taken it down. I still have it open in my RSS reader. It was in response to this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2433
"Basically, a businessman runs into a fisherman by the beach and is telling him how he should get a boat, a fleet, put in hard work to make a lot of money and then he can retire, take it easy, go fishing for a couple hours each day, etc. Then the fisherman says "Isn't that what I'm doing now?"

If the fisherman is already fishing and selling his fish to earn a living..isn't he already in business for himself? If he can save enough for retirement, than I see his point. If not, it's going to be pretty rough for him when he gets to an age when he wants to quit. If he had enough money, he could also move onto something else if he ever got bored of fishing.

Fishing for fun is also different than fishing for a living.

Money doesn't make you happy. It opens many more doors that can lead to happiness.
Publishing this is self-defeating, though... now you won't be able to play hangman against any nerds without them guessing "jazz".
COO/CTO of Branchr is Mark Bao

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=markbao
correct me if i'm wrong but from what i've read about the patents on this, some improvements might open you up to patent issues.
Closing the door to the country club works if you're already inside when the door closes. Google's agreement with Verizon positions them inside. Startups and companies offering services we haven't even dreamt of yet are on the outside.
It depends how you get said money - by being innovative perhaps.
try
http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

"Brain Workshop is a free open-source version of the Dual N-Back mental exercise.

What if a simple mental exercise could improve your memory and intelligence?

A recent study published in PNAS, an important scientific journal, shows that a particular memory task called Dual N-Back may actually improve working memory (short term memory) and fluid intelligence. This finding is important because fluid intelligence was previously thought to be unchangeable. The game involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time."
2006 Google versus 2010 Google on Net Neutrality.
No. In most countries, an increase in productivity / GDP / quality of life is strongly correlated with a lowering in fertility rate:

http://geocurrentevents.blogspot.com/2010/07/misconceptions-...
It's all good, there's nothing to understand. The article is just fluff. A troll headline and no new information or insight.
nt;dr

Short answer is I think ESR was important in some areas. Cathedral and Bazaar in print was passed around at my office a lot - exposing a number of people I knew to the main ideas at the time. They may have been exposed to those ideas at some other time later on by someone else, but I think CatB was at least a small catalyst.
Sorry if that came out wrong. I certainly didn't mean it in a negative connotation. Hell, I'd love to travel in a private jet! :-) I was just saying that travel doesn't have to wait.

To your point, I would love to visit my family in India a few times a year, if it was within my means. At times, I've wanted to just take off to exotic locations for the weekend. But oh well. I still travel internationally to my heart's content once or twice a year.
I copied the text here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=jD9SJNwX
My favorite words for stumping everybody are: lynx and eczema. I thought for sure that 'lynx' would get on that list since there is only a "sometimes" vowel and an 'x' in there.
Is Oracle innovative compared to Google or Apple?
Speculation: net-neutrality compromise in the wireless space could help Google's relationship with carriers. Google can't afford to fight with their Android partners while they have Apple to worry about.
Assertion [of "most marriages"] is reached by appropriate interpretation of "lack of knowledge about husband's profession".
Most wives would know name of husband's profession, but majority would not know more deeper things such as top 10 buzzwords.
BTW, I'm not saying that such lack of knowledge is necessarily bad -- specialization in life is an important thing.
Maybe with open-source developers, but not with Java's corporate bread-and-butter. They might actually like the warm security blanket provided by purchasing official Java licenses, support contracts, certifications, etc that Sun wasn't quite corporatey enough to provide.
It's a little bit disingenuous to say earning lots of money is the same as "gambling away a decade or two" while a full-time job will "distract you slightly." Getting money and getting modestly rich are essentially the same thing, just one way you have a reasoned goal for which to optimize your money-earning.
Exactly which part of the proposal does that?
I think this just means our Nash Equilibrium has shifted a bit. If the opponent knows you know this, he'll guess 'z' and 'x' more often, so you would use words that included those probabilistically so as to foil this as often as possible. He will then guess them probabilistically accordingly, and eventually Equilibrium returns.

But if you don't wanna go through all that, I'd say just go find some non-nerds to play hangman with tonight, and enjoy the knowledge while you can.
Google wanted to prevent Apple from signing a non-neutrality deal with Verizon.

Everyone always forgets how vulnerable Google is to competition. Best case for Google is net neutrality, second best case is to have signed deals with the top ISPs to prevent its competitors from signing google-harming deals with them.
be like me, have your wife do all the work =)
just to clarify--there's nothing that can be downloaded and used right now, correct? it looks like this is a pre-announcement of something they're building.
>Google's agreement with Verizon positions them inside.

No part of this agreement creates any business relationship between Verizon and Google. I'm still not understanding.
The strangest language 'feature' I've come across must be 'ticks' in PHP:

> A tick is an event that occurs for every N low-level tickable statements executed by the parser within the declare block. The value for N is specified using ticks=N within the declare blocks's directive section.

( http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.declare.php )

PHP is a hodgepodge of inconsistent APIs and general weirdness already, but I really did sit back and have a good WTF moment when I discovered this 'feature'. I have yet to encounter many people who have ever heard of ticks, let alone anyone who has actually implement functionality that depended on them. I've never seen something like that in Python or Ruby.
Another View on the War on Photography
I don't follow the argument either. My understanding is:

Before agreement:
- wired: unregulated
- wireless: unregulated.

After agreement:
- wired: net neutrality
- wireless: unregulated but reviewed yearly

We all benefit from wired NN.
Google didn't gain any special privilege here.
It was about time someone said something to this effect. Net neutrality aside, Google is a public company. They have shareholders. From what it sounds like, Larry and Sergey are more or less full blown academics and therefore idealistic. Problem is, they aren't the parents of a Stanford project anymore but instead a multi-billion, multi-national corporation with thousands of shareholders, employees and customers.

Could they have approached net-neutrality with a "cut off your nose to spite your face" approach? Absolutely. Could they have won out in the face of adversity? Maybe. Would it have been good business? Most assuredly not.

Google in acting in self-preservation; nothing more, nothing less. They aren't martyrs. I can understand if you are upset about them not admitting this fact, but anything else is naive.
I don't want to be rich, I just want people to be happy and fashionable
What do you define "muscle quality" to be?
Great resource!!
To preempt a few questions that are bound to pop up:

What about jQTouch? While jQTouch is a great framework and we're proud to have it as part of the jQuery community - we really wanted a mobile framework to exist that would truly support all the mobile platforms out there. We chatted with the jQTouch team and there wasn't really any interest on their end to head in that direction. It's obviously going to be a ton of work - but that's something that the jQuery project is very interested in tackling.

Is this a response to Sencha Touch? We've actually been working on jQuery mobile for a while now - long before Sencha Touch was released/announced. We're not particularly concerned with Sencha Touch mostly for the same reason that we're building an alternative to jQTouch: We want to support more platforms and do it in a completely seamless way.

What data did you use to choose the browsers that you did? We've been talking with a number of mobile analytics firms and large corporations, gathering data, and will be releasing a bunch of the reliable numbers that we've collected on the jQuery mobile blog. Right now we're confident in the browsers and versions that we've chosen - although that'll likely change over the next couple months as the market shifts.
Sympathy upvote - not sure why you got downvoted for a perfectly cogent argument.

You are of course absolutely right - if what you're after is the resort hotel experience, jet-setting around the world, fine-dining and boutique shopping then yes, you do need to be exceedingly wealthy.

But IMHO travel is so much more meaningful than that, and in fact I don't see much of a point to the jet-set lifestyle at all. A trendy nightclub in Shanghai is going to be largely similar to a trendy nightclub in NYC; you will many of the same boutiques on a chic street in Paris as you would in London.

IMHO the point of travel is to experience the uniqueness a place has to offer - and to do so you cannot ignore the people who inhabit such a space. Largely, they are not rich and wealthy, and living the rich and wealthy jet-set lifestyle is essentially a barrier to meeting, interacting with, and getting to know them.

It is consistently surprising and disappointing to me that the upper classes in our society try so very hard to emulate the bohemian way of life, when it is so very easily in reach for just about everyone.
Looks like a call to join the community.
So you think Google's planning to offer prioritized services to Android users? YouTube seems a likely pick.
Correct, we are posting publicly our strategy and plans for mobile and plan to have a mobile jQuery version out later this year.
Flickr Restricting Accounts for Excessive Favoriting
No amount of features will get me to use this; there's too big of an initial hurdle to making the system aware of what I like, and I don't have a pressing need for more recommendations of things like films and books.

This needs to get tied into something like Facebook or Yelp, where I can just give you my password and it suddenly knows everything I like already.

That's why Mint.com worked for budgeting - unlike everything that came before it, I just gave up my account numbers and suddenly it knew how I spent my money. No more manual entering of stuff.
LLVM, Squeak, Erlang, CPython, pypy, Rubinius, parrot, several of the javascript VMs all "truly unencumbered VM". If I were going to start a massive library so everyone wants to use my VM project today I would start with either LLVM, parrot or pypy probably in that order.
Yep - that's correct. Since jQuery is a completely community-driven project and funded entirely by donations we wanted to open up right away to bring more people in. While we're rather confident in the direction that we're heading - doing it in a completely open manner is much more inline with what the jQuery project typically does.
In California, a family making low six-figures is upper-middle-class (my parents made ~$80k and we were generally considered lower-middle-class). So it makes sense to me not to call that "rich," though of course the value of money is a personal thing.
OpenSolaris is dead; and Solaris is officially irrelevant.
A one-file remote console.log using node.js for mobile development
The person must be in senior position (CEO, CTO, founder) in software company.
The company should not have profits - jet.

This way someone who need it to save his company and who cannot afford it will get it.
Perl will convert from base 26 to base 10 if you know how to ask:

$ perl -E 'say lc (@a="a".."asdf")'
30530
This is very exciting news, especially knowing that this significantly better-looking theme is coming to desktop JQuery UI. One of my biggest issues with JQuery UI has always been how goofy it looks in comparison to Aristo and Ace (http://www.antipode.ca/2009/themes-sproutcore-vs-cappuccino/)
Plus they locked the thread in the help forums where people were talking about it:

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157624591801303/pag...

Flickr just seems to be rotting in it's middle-ages at Yahoo. The community aspect has been sucked out of it and the good people that worked there have left.

Photos are all about community, perhaps the ultimate social object. Yahoo isn't getting it and Facebook Photos is a blackhole for picture... the space seems ripe for innovation.
I think Amazon still has people boycotting them over the one-click patent.
I meant make lots of money by being innovative, or take the oracle approach, etc.
My personal view is that Solaris is now, like Oracle's database products, officially irrelevant to the future. While they will continue to be purchased for large sums of money by people who must, like COBOL, they will not shape anyone's idea of the future. ZFS had a huge impact on file system development, but I suspect no such future innovation is in store for Solaris.
As a 27-year old, part-time consultant, it's not so theoretical :-) I agree I could never support a family living the way I do, but raising a family is at odds with maximizing your free time anyways.
i.e investors
Game Prototyping: You're (Probably) Doing It Wrong
thanks. i'm actually really glad to see you guys taking the lead on this initiative. jqtouch and sencha both have their shortcomings, but it sounds like this is addressing all of those (polished UI, easy to pick up, well-documented, cross-platform/cross-device).
Personally, I think the only options are PayPal or taking credit cards directly. Any other choice is just an obstacle to your customers, another account that they need to sign up for. Yes, people have Google accounts but do they have a credit card on file?

The funny thing is that the competitors don't undercut PayPal. It's no wonder they aren't getting much traction.
Recommender Systems for Social Bookmarking (2009 Ph.D. thesis)