skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe Jobs just has an OCD and wants to collect $100B in a bank.

Seriously though, why would they NEED to buy anything right now instead of rolling out capital expenditures as they need (like that data center for $1B recently) and keep cash at hand for potential new thing if there was an opportunity where one would need to act quickly (and have cash to do so).

If those $51B assets are live cash, I would imagine it being a big burden just to keep up with inflation eating it's way through it.
See the Racket docs for getting a simple web app set up: http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/
Notion Ink developer program opens
You sound a lot like someone trying hard to make an inventor out of Apple. Making a hit product with some new features in an industry isn't the same as making the industry.

If we go by that reasoning, Microsoft created the word processor industry.

Innovator isn't a dirty word. Let Apple take credit for what they've accomplished.
I wasn't talking about the Wii.
found via slashgear : http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-developer-program-o...
I don't really support 1, it's just too easy to abuse.

edit: the ideas about a threshold (even just two or three for now) of resubmissions to put a sub 5-vote submission back on the new list sounds like a good idea that's significantly less likely to be abused.
Ask HN: What version of Python do you use?
The post on Arch Linux moving to Python 3 made me wonder what versions are used most widely amongst HN users. Vote away.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/
The scenarios are greatly simplified here, so it's hard make direct comparisons. But, on the surface it sounds like you're assuming the investment size stays relatively constant.

You might invest $10M in a web-type startup this year, and $1B in a radical new solar panel manufacturing facility 2 years later that promises to halve the price of solar-watts, etc. It also assumes that everyone wants to reinvest 100% every year, you'd get some investors who would be happy to just make back the $20M they lost in another market, and not keep doubling down.

So, I think the model is sustainable for longer than you might first guess.
I agree completely. Positive feedback has very little worth to me, more often then not. I'd love to sit down with the YC team and hear everything "negative/harsh" (aka useful/constructive) they could tell me about my startup.
I think this depends a lot on what you're looking for. I love lisp, but I wouldn't bet a startup on it. Ruby/Rails is simply too complete to use something else.

Bliss could come from a combination of the two, however.
I don't think it will happen simply for the fact that Steve doesn't compromise and he's smart enough to know that this evaluation of Fb being worth over 33 billion is ridiculous -- he wouldn't pay that, ever.
A guy I work with a lot just moved to Taiwan and just went through all the hurdles to get an offshore developer office set up there. He claims it should be a great place to start a company, provided he can find the developer talent. There are considerably lower operating costs in Taiwan, but without the chaos of China. There's a pretty high acceptance of entrepreneurial risk, technology and international business ventures etc. The education level and english language skills of the engineering talent pool are favorable as well.

Considering how many hardware companies operate in Taiwan I'm surprised more software & social media hasn't gravitated there as well
The first paragraph says they've also stopped shipments to Europe.
I really wouldn't take an article seriously if it partially blames the '87 stock market crash on Black-Scholes (basic model for pricing European options). That makes literally zero sense.
Linux on the desktop is dead. Didn't you get the memo? http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/18/1312214/Desktop-Lin... And it's dead exactly because of fragmentation. I don't think Android will fare any better.
RIM Responds to Apple’s ‘Distortion Field’
Since we're talking anecdotes, I've never ever had any of these problems. I've used SVN/Git plugins, Android's plugins, etc on every operating system that Eclipse supports and I've never ever had a problem.
Judge Rules Against ‘Edge’ Trademark Troll Tim Langdell
It's a bold move that gonna make python move forward. Congratulation Arch Linux.
Puma Shoes Outlet, Discount Puma Sneakers Online Store | Free Shipping
While that is a pretty page everything I click on gives me an error message.
The fragmentation problem for users is that they must be conscious of the deviations of the particular handset/carrier/version/store fragment they are buying in to or potentially suffer the consequences of their ignorance.

That is, the Android phone you buy may be a very different experience than the Android phone I buy, and that creates a lot of opportunity for dissatisfaction internal to the platform which simply would not be there with a strong first-party stance on how things ought to be done.
Tim “Edge Games” Langdell has lost a round in court with EA over the use of his “Edge” trademarks. In refusing his request for a preliminary injunction, judge William Alsup described Edge Games as ‘trolling’ and suggested that it could face criminal charges.

“Given the suspect nature of Dr. Langdell’s representations to both the USPTO and the Court concerning plaintiff’s current and future sales and business activities, it is an open question whether plaintiff’s business activities legitimately extend beyond trolling various gaming-related industries for licensing opportunities,” wrote the judge.

Original Article (Aug 09) http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason

Original HN Post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739390
I think you should read this:
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
6.1 trillion text messages to be sent in 2010
Is this in wealthier neighborhoods? As far as I know teachers in middle and lower middle class schools don't make much (many <$40k).

And more important are kids programs which get cut altogether. I get that there's plenty of inefficiencies but the last line of defense should be schools/education but it often seems the first.
Sorry - that was sort of my point, but I didn't put it very well. Your student likely isn't taking any of that into account. One way to get your point across is to ask them a few pointed questions about (eg.) the data set that they're sorting. If it's relatively small, then the overhead of quicksort might not be worth it. If it's already mostly sorted, then bubblesort is potentially better, and so on.
I can't help but get the feeling I'm being trolled here, but: the C in CLISP actually stands for Common, not the C language.
I wouldn't believe it if it weren't for the fact that this would be the biggest showing of balls in the Apple-Google war by far.
Because it is poorly regulated.
Loopt(YC 2005) integrates Facebook Places
"they pretend that there is a magical piggy bank with endless money."

Found it for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
"pro embryo life" doesnt have the same ring to it
Lisp is not really a language. It's a family of languages. That's why you can't find a standard implementation.

Clisp is one implementation of the Common Lisp language. Other Common Lisp implementations include SBCL and AllegroCL. Since no one party controls the Common Lisp language, none is standard.

Scheme is another Lisp language. It also isn't controlled by anyone, so it's just a sea of implementations. BUT — the closely related Racket language is centrally controlled and does have a standard implementation. In fact, that's pretty much the whole reason Racket diverged from Scheme — so that it could be the standard Racket instead of Scheme with a bunch of modifications.

The other popular Lisp these days is Clojure. Like Racket, it does have a central "creator," Rich Hickey, whose implementation is considered official.
Most likely he was thinking it was analogous to CPython.
Are You Getting Stiffed as the IT Budget Rises?
It depends what you use Wikipedia for.
As a source for political info it might be good or bad
but you cannot rely on single source for this kind of information anyway.
Math/physics articles are pretty decent, however.
I visited pg's arcforum today http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12563 and got this info by "fallintothis":

http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/help/arc.arc is from Anarki, a community-maintained branch of "vanilla" Arc. They wrote such a help function, but there are also other extensions and differences that are reflected in said help.

If you're new to Lisp, http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt isn't a bad start. But there are countless Lisp tutorials out there.

As for online documentation: http://files.arcfn.com/doc/ + http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/whats-new-in-arc3.html; see also http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12228, wherein I technically have another suggestion for learning Arc without the web ;).

[ Haven't dug in very far yet but Arc tutorial appears to be web development oriented, and you could look at the HN source code ]
Because what his theory boils down to is that you can't predict the market. Pointing out that the market is describable by a self-similar fractal froth is an interesting thought, but it basically means that if true, you can't predict anything with any effectiveness. (Oh, you might be able to use that idea to tune yourself up something that might work slightly better on a small time scale, but as the market has sped up that small time scale has gotten awfully small....)

Who wants to listen to a party pooper like that?

I've found a similar problem at work. It is my belief after studying the problem for years, reading the work of many other of our smartest people trying to solve it, and over a decade of experience, that estimating software times are simply impossible except in the grossest of terms on any significantly-sized project, especially as you get into the multi-month estimates. Once you accept that, you can actually deal with it; Agile is in some sense a response to this problem. But try convincing other people of that fact. They'll tell you marketing needs some idea of when features go out, that management needs some ability to plan on things, that sales needs some concept of when to sell features. Well, too bad! None of that makes it possible. That is simply an extended explanation of why it sucks that we can't have these accurate estimates. And yeah, I'll play the game because it's still better than nothing.

I'm somewhat less sure that's true in the financial world. Shall we say, the evidence somewhat suggests that pervasive underestimation of risk can potentially have slightly negative effects on the global economy.
Example of architecture for AaaS (Analytics as a Service)
I largely agree, competent programmers should be able to pick up new tech/languages/tools fairly quickly....

However i think in order to evaluate someones ability to program, you do need to ask them to program. The language may not matter too much but the ability to think coherently and organize a solution is a skill that can't get easily picked up in a week.
The chance to work for a new boss when you are doing great being the boss? Nah.
yeah, ok.

However, if thats the case then it already is super simple to submit the praise...walk over to their desk/call them/ping them/email them...
How fast can a startup get things done?
Art Term Papers about Egon Schiele
The works of Austrian artist Egon Schiele is not common to many art students. Therefore, writing an art term paper about Egon Shiele will require much investigation into the topic. Once information is gathered, knowing how to write the term paper will enable you to receive a good grade.
Why wouldn't they be able to? Even if there wasn't an easy config switch that you can use when building Android, it wouldn't be too hard for a carrier to make a few modifications to disable the installation of non-market APKs.
Benoit wrote a scathing critique of modern economic theory and the assumptions upon which it rests. Attacks on fundamental belief systems are generally impolitic.
No kidding, blaming the math for the crash is like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.

"Our models told us our plans were unsinkable so we went right ahead into the icebergs"
Oh, how come?
You are serious?
We did not know that.

Sarcastically, of course.
I would have enjoyed this more if you published a literary analysis of essay content.
I am 2 months shy of 21 or I would have definitely applied. :(
There's a startup idea in here. It sounds like super angels can be given a pitch and make a decision quickly. So, why not provide a website that can coordinate these pitches. Hell, maybe some angels would be willing to invest some small amount of money by just doing a live pitch over the web. Whatever the minimal barrier to closing a deal is, a startup should come along and automate to make it as fast and painless as possible. One could imagine a Groupon like model being applied here as well, with one super angel really going all out and meeting with the founders multiple times, and the others hopping on board with a click of their mouse after watching a less impactful pitch like a pre-recorded one or just reading the feedback from the "head" super angel.
Starbucks debuts digital network for customers using its Wi-Fi
As NYC Seed Funding Grows, Big Investors are Mostly Local |
1) This setup works for a free plan, not for a free trial.

2) It's legally ok to call this a "risk free trial", which many users read as a "free trial". I prefer a free trial myself.

3) Just get another payment system and offer a 30 day free trial.
what do you mean by violence? care to elaborate (and explain the correlation)?
A lot of people who purchase a Prius think they are doing something environmentally friendly. In fact, that's part of Toyota's marketing campagin. Not only that, but the government helps subsidize these purchases by giving tax breaks.

If the real goal was to do what's best for the environment, then it's not to buy a brand new hybrid.
China has been stockpiling the rare elements for some time now. They're necessary for a lot of high-tech goods, and would be very useful as a trade lever.

Regarding the embargo on Japan, it was seen as a response to the recent territorial disputes over the Senkaku isles. China later stated that they weren't embargoing nuthin', but importers here in Japan were having a lot of problems getting shipments in due to much more strenuous customs inspections, etc.

The Japanese response has been to open dialogue with Mongolia about starting mines for rare earth minerals there, as Mongolia are supposed to have a great deal of reserves.
http://domai.nr/
Linkbait/Spam?
Ask HN:  what do you think of idea for startup
my idea for a start up is a platform where users ask opened ended questions and then ask their friends and others to respond... then users can respond and other users can vote up the responses. the results will be shown in a style similar to reddit/hacker news/youtube/fml, etc. a mixture of upvotes and newly submitted are near the top.. plus if there are enough submissions a best of today, last week, all time, etc.

it would be similar to FML, or texts from last night, or http://notanewyorker.com/. Except users can generate their own open ended statments questions and spread them virally.

This phenomena already happens on twitter. #geekpickuplines #3wordsaftersex

The open ended statements would be mostly funny...or philisophical...

the main difference between this and what happens on twitter is that you can see a best of... that just doesn't exist the way it happens on twitter.

please let me know if you think this is a good idea, and how you would implement it. how it would ever make money (ads?) and general thoughts...
The singular of anecdote is not data.

I'm sorry your (ex?) friend is a douchebag, though.
The platforms making bold enough breaking changes to progress are usually better for it. One case Apple on intel/OSX. Granted this is painful for legacy stuff but that only helps keep things up to date. If people don't start doing this Python 3 will never progress.

However, there should be no 'default' python. People should go get 2 or 3 as needed. If there is a default it should be the latest version.
It's giving me wrong information for .org domains

On my first search, it shows chat.org and wizard.org as being available. Not so.
I would recommend reading the most recent messages on the linked thread. Rich tries to address your concern and, whether or not you agree with his decision, it's clear he's done his research.
That's how I installed Fennec.
Models with constant-volatility random walks aren't favoured over "fractal" models because of some elaborate charade or flawed incentives. They are used because they are tractable models that can be used to make predictions. Fractal models are not.

Financial models are just like any other engineering tools. They approximate reality so they can be useful; but violate their assumptions or use them outside of their intended purpose, and they're likely to blow up in your face.
As I see it, the change is minor and doesn't have any practical consequences, except for:

(1) the extra work for Arch packagers, who will need to change, in all packages, every Python2.x code that expects /usr/bin/python to be a Python2.x interpreter.

(2) making Python 3.x feel like the de facto standard in the distribution sphere.
A Google is an Internet. There are multiple, physically distinct Internets, because if one uses search as the only navigation, the blue Google (IE on work PC, hone page Bing) does not let you see all the sites on the green Google (home PC, home page google.com). This makes sense because clearly work made it so you could only pick the educational Googles.

There is a BCC site on both Googles, but because Googles are physically separate, they must be copies of each other, like how Word at home is a copy of Word at school. If you save docs in one, they don't show up at the other. So you need one login for the blue Google BCC and one for the green Google BCC. Duh. You use your website number as a login name. It is like a telephone number: it lets you contact people, except instead of ringing their phone your message shows up on their website.
Hmm..just tried it again and now it shows them correctly as being as unavailable. Not sure what happened first time around.
Anyone care to speculate or enlighten the rest of us on where this pearl comes from?
Too many third party libs and packages still don't support PY3. Not a good idea.
I don't think this noise creates a big problem, I just think it's not going to last for long. Also, IMO "traditional" angel investors will continue investing because they probably enjoy doing it.
That's pretty cool, but slightly different. It's certainly a much more polished product =)

Where that's showing you a combination of words, my site instead looks up every word and checks it's availability.

I created my site to help with the brainstorming of site names to see what's available, but I can see how domai.nr would be used in a very similar way.
If you do personal work while "on the clock," not only could your employer claim ownership, they might also fire you ;) If you are using their computers, their office space, their internet connection... IANAL, but it seems to me like a risky situation if your side project takes off.
IOS developer responds to Android Chief about Google OS being open
That's something I'd like to do. This is really just a starting point. I think there's interesting info to be gleaned even without looking at the content of the essays.
It's more than your respective definition of "understand". You learn differently.

You sound like a "practice" guy. To learn a language, you need to see and write code in that language. You take a good look at the standard library, you practice, you learn the trivia, how things are done, and as you become proficient, you acquire a good intuition of the language semantics.

jemfinch, on the other hand, is more a "theory" guy. To learn a language he needs the (reference) manual. He reads it, compares the various features of the new language with the ones he already know, which let him get the semantics fairly quickly. Proficiency only comes when he learns the trivia as he needed, with practice.

The difference between the two of you is that for you, understanding takes practice, while for him, it's a prerequisite to practice. You could argue that both approaches eventually amounts to the same (to write actual code, you need proficiency anyway), but they do not.

Programming languages aren't just rigid tools your boss forces you to use (or at least they shouldn't be). They're something you should chose, and sometimes transform, or even build. In such cases, you often need to choose between several languages, some of which you never practised. Some in which no code were written yet. So you need to judge the languages for themselves.

Furthermore, the "practice first" approach tend to make you blindly parrot current styles. That makes you more likely repeat past mistakes without realizing it. The "understanding first" approach may be more error prone at first, but at least here you can confront 2 styles (your own, and the established practice), and challenge either of them.
It's using Ruby Whois (http://www.ruby-whois.org/) to do the queries, and it looks like the .org implementation is a bit flakey.

Thanks for the heads up and thanks for the feedback! I'll see if I can fix the issue.
This update broke the python-cheetah package which I was relying on.

For now, I have to use a self-compiled 2.6 python package. I have locked the python and python2 packages from further updates for now. I hope this situation get better soon.
Interestingly Racket and Clojure were the last two languages I decided to pick from when I decided to start to learn lisp a few weeks ago. The impression I got from reading about Common Lisp on the 'net was that it was old, its libraries are hard to find, and when you find them they are poorly documented and unmaintained. And if you're not using emacs to write it, no one is going to help you. I've installed several versions of emacs on my computer... but decided in the end I didn't really want to learn lisp and emacs at the same time because it didn't seem fun anymore, just work.

At least there are more blogs about Clojure; and Racket is mature and well supported. (I also think Clojure code looks better than all the other lisps. Don't know why, yet.)
Check out http://postabon.posterous.com/a-simple-lisp-webapp-for-begin...
regarding lambda4jdt: It's a sorry state of affairs when you're relying on the IDE to hide the noise in a language.
How about "integrating" a phone that works into your phone.
If you're interested in this sort of thing it wouldn't hurt to get an estimate from a water-jet cutting place. It's a really good process for cutting complex 2D shapes in flat materials for low-volume production runs.

(Of course you need to get the gear outline into an appropriate file format first.)
Systematically eliminating choices
I'm strongly considering it, it's a lot more difficult for a non-american though. If I was from Portland or Tuscon, I'd be there already.
Exactly, and I think that's what he said, that it would be a nether region in between a tablet and a phone. However, I don't agree that this size would not be desirable and useful. I want one.

If I had an iPad, I'd use it for the same things I use my phone for - web browsing, skype, music, reading books, email, photos and games. Why would this size not be appropriate for those tasks? What is it that Steve Jobs thinks people do with iPhones and iPads, if not the aforementioned?
I don't program anything serious with Lisp', just toying around for what seems to be forever (having friends/colleagues that don't program in same language doesn't help - in fact, it alienates me from Lisp even further). Clozure and PLT..er Racket Scheme for me, but if I were to try web development or anything more serious than just toying around I'd definitely go with something JVM based for libraries support, if nothing else.