skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think that kids should be allowed, even encouraged, to explore anything that captures their interest..." anything?! Really?

Ok, rhetorically speaking; What about race-hate propaganda? How about a book that praises the joys of religious intolerance? Might we want to see books on these topics held in reserve for an older more discerning audience?

Now a real question: So fisting is ok at what age-range then? Don't miss the direct question. I am asking for an age-range so that you won't say something like, "well.. that er... depends on the child". Pick a range when fisting is, in your opinion, a healthy endeavor for male children.
Good point - if you could create an accurate tool for predicting the stock market, how much money could you make? Answer = all of it.

If it was accurate, we'd never hear about it. It'd be top secret.
You don't even need malicious intent. Mishandle the computer while it's plugged in to the stick and you'd likely damage it pretty quickly.
I don't believe this is correct. I'd suggest you stay away from this kind of answer. The last thing you want it someone to reject you because they think you can be argumentative. Never talk about weaknesses, but if you have to, make it as inconsequential as you can -- don't mention how you can be argumentative and not be aware of your surroundings.

Rather, stroke the ego of the person you're talking to. I grew up always knowing I wanted to do <whatever>. In high school I started learning as much as I could from the library and it really started to grow my interest as I read more and more. This school is particularly high on my list because I know you have some of the best professors and a culture that focuses on the students in a way that bigger universities cant.

That is assuming you're going to a small school. I imagine big schools don't have time to interview every single student that wants to apply.

This answer talks about you, your interest in whatever you're going to study, and why you think the school is awesome.
OT: but I really think someone perverted should create a derivative market for people's Farmville "wealth" and other video game scores/assets.

I haven't played video games since Street Fighter II, and can't make a better informed argument, but if the scores are public for some huge games, I think it would be fun to bet on them (even if for "virtual currency".) Say, offer the games in "baskets", ranging from Farmville to MindCraft to WW. Bet on today's top score, biggest losers, etc. I say basket because individual score picks might be gamed.

Something like this might encourage more economic and financial research into video games, helping make the dismal science more attractive to "kids".
:) Agree. Org-mode is great! It's extremely simple and the best of all is that save everything into plain text files that you can track with any version control system.
Apple has also contributed to GCC in various ways, what is to say that they didn't contribute some piece of code that they hold a patent on and thus could sue anyone that uses GCC?
I am prescribed Provigil for a sleep disorder called Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

Modafinil has been a help to me while stimulants have NOT been. I have a lot of experience with both, as I have talked about in various posts on this thread.

The difference between "stimulant" and "stimulant-like" is both small and vast. Think Uncanny Valley. "Human" and "human-like..."

Also, I am unsure what point you are trying to argue. I will give you stimulant-like, sure, although it does not make your heart race, a MAJOR PROBLEM with stimulants.

The FDA info you quote DOES NOT CALL MODAFINIL A STIMULANT!
How do I type it?

Soft keyboards and composing-entry are the future.
Wow, how flattering to Schmidt.

I'm not terribly fond of him, personally.

Not surprised that Jobs was unwilling to give up a hardware business. The profit margins might be worse but it's less volatile.
This post should be at the top of the thread. When you go to golang.org, one of the first things they highlight, on the homepage, is the fact that Go has native unicode support. The article makes a good point, but what Hanning-Kamp describes as needing to happen has already started to happen, with Go. The entire ethos of this piece is that it is a rant about something that needs to happen, but unfortunately, that thing has already happened.
And may I ask where you purchased it?
I bought the book the other day after it was posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935 and have been working through the chapters. The book contains some CLISP specific code but I'm running SBCL. So this is my SBCL hack for the first stumbling block I found.

disclaimer: I'm a LISP noob, so this is a beginners hack, but it may help others (like me) who have had difficulty installing CLISP.
Man Lab
Because we need saving from our feckless, bedwetting, parmesan shaving selves! http://bit.ly/arPva5
I agree with everything except 13; superficially American and Canadian culture are similar but they are not. I moved from the US to Canada because of that difference.
Ok, that is awesome. You should put some text explaining that somewhere on the page.
you can hack it to... but it's dirty. just use something else.
I assumed that Google planned to use it in exactly the way they tested e.g.

* thumbnails of jpegs on picasa web galleries

* thumbnails of jpegs & pngs on Google image search

* thumbnails of videos on Youtube

* an Opera Turbo/Mini style proxy server that recompresses jpegs and pngs

* a turnkey web-accelerator that recompresses all the images on your site and serves the WebP ones to compatible browsers without you needing to do anything

However, I don't think anything like this has actually been announced. Without such announcements the methodology does seem strange.
Don't listen to what people on HN say. They don't know what a third world country means. I mean, they are talking about the USA.

As you know, in a third world country, especially when the state has more power (biggest % of jobs), the only way to prove yourself and get a job is a "degree".

India is big, so may be things there are a little different. But trust me, don't drop from college. You know that people without degrees are underpaid and can hardly make a living. Don't drop, get the degree, I know the college sucks, because the education level is so low and professor are just there to take their salary at the end of the month.

If you are smart you'll get the degree. Drop if you make money. Your business is more important than that college degree, but if you don't have any business or freelancing didn't go well with you, don't drop.

I'm a university student and I'll be starting a company in the next few months. If things started to shift quite considerably, I'll ditch that uni. and go full time business; otherwise, my degree is there. The spare wheel! I know the salary sucks, anyway, but that's better than staying jobless or doing something totally irrelevant.

Follow your heart, but be careful at taking decisions.
No, nothing online. It's a standard gantry 3-axis mill though. Pretty much all info to build your own is here: http://buildyourcnc.com/ I wish I found that info before!
I agree that there's a lot of terrible stuff being produced, and you can go to any indie film festival and see movies with great scripts. But when you drop below the A list and look at the marginal, non-blockbuster movies, do you really need a good script to make money? Do producers and directors need a good writer? Is a good script or a good writer an asset to them at all?

To put it another way, what is a "good" script from the point of view of the movie industry, and how many people actually want to write one, and would be willing to put their real name on it?

If you look outside the blockbusters, and even at many blockbusters themselves, most scripts aren't that good. I know a few people who watch a lot of terrible movies who are kind of allergic to quality, or at least allergic to the aspiration to quality. They are tolerant of crap and want their movies to be tolerant, too. A friend of mine is a huge fan of horror and action movies, and the only movie he has ever walked out of was "The Thin Red Line." Why did that movie offend him, out of all the movies he's seen? It wasn't because it was bad. (He and I saw "Deuce Bigalo: European Gigolo" in the theater.) It offended him because it insulted his taste. It aspired to be better than the movies he liked. That's what I'm guessing, anyway.

So if you're in the movie industry and trying to get a non-A-list movie made, you have to think about who's going to go see it. Writing a "good" script by your own standards may be a mistake. Maybe writing a "good" script only proves you don't understand the business and won't be an asset to the people who can help you. Maybe showing some hustle, some talent at getting noticed, and some crass instincts is necessary, not to draw attention to your good writing -- nobody gives a shit about your writing -- but because hustle, self-promotion, and crassness is how you prove you can succeed in the industry and help them make money in the future.
Where is the bottleneck in the JS version? The major browsers are coming close to releasing GPU-accelerated canvas. You might just be a bit early...

For example: the JS version is choppy, but usable at 2560x1600 in Chrome on a PhenomIIx4. However, if I switch to the Chrome Canary build (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs) with --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas it is significantly less choppy. At 1920x1200 it is downright snappy.
Mobile webkit?
http://www.google.com/search?&hl=en&source=hp&q=...
They hired a great CEO in Dick Costolo, gave him time to prove himself within Twitter as COO, then promoted him to CEO. This may have been thought out for quite a while in advance.
Watch Charlie Brooker's (foul-mouthed) guide to getting a job in TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIyg2a72uV4

In fact, most of his Screenwipe/Newswipe series is worth a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVTUdfcEMg&feature=relat...
I don't see the similarity, but distributed p2p systems are very interesting, especially when they involve mobile wireless communication. It's kinda sad that there is currently little use for these kind of networks. In larger cities node density could get high enough to actually create a continuous mesh network with acceptable latency and loss.
There is something about India, from the help posts we do get on here much is made of tradition and culture and stigma that prevents them from doing what they really want to do. I think the parents, communities expectations, while probably well meaning, do a lot more harm than good in the end.
There were 70,000 new scripts registered with the WGA last year. 70 spec script sold. (Specs are scripts that writers just write on their own, without getting hired by a studio first.) Of those, one in ten will get made into a movie. Thats 7 out of 70000 odds. One-one-hundredth of a percent.

At that level, I think it's possible that some fantastic scripts slip through the cracks.

There's the highly prestigious Nicholl Fellowship, run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that awards up to 10 fellows a year based on their sample scripts. Scripts judged to be outstanding by actual respected Academy members. Most of those won't sell either, although the writers will get jobs out of it.

The Black List has become more political in recent years, but it's a list of great scripts that don't get made.

The Coen Brothers and Woody Allen seem to be able to make whatever the hell they want, but other geniuses like Scorcese and even Spielberg have projects they've been trying to get off the ground for years, and haven't yet succeeded.

Based on all that, I'm inclined to believe there are plenty of great scripts that don't get produced.
Couple of things:

1. You will able to use something like OpenVPN for windows/mac. But you will decode the configuration of the tunnel and encryption parameters from the Cisco VPN profile (try looking in your programs files/Cisco systems/... /profiles/ directory)

2. But using any other client will not really help to increase the throughput /performance.

3. Throughput is limited by WAN link (probably a slow DSL modem) and also university's VPN server.

4. I have used Cisco VPN to log in to university workstations during my grad school days. It was pretty good. I had 12x1 services at my apt.

What type/speed of Internet service do you currently have?
I started using bitbucket a month ago and everything went fine. I'm new to version control and selected mercurial as my VCS, so I was happy by finding a github counterpart.

I think it's wrong to compare bitbucket to github. You won't move to github because github is superior, but if you want to move to git, you'll probably do.

Bitbucket has all I need. I don't think I need any other fancy features, I already get things done the right way. I'm using the free version, but would upgrade if needed.

Also, make sure you read the down times before you argue about it:

"Bitbucket will be unavailable for approximately two hours starting Monday, Nov 1st, 01:00 GMT for a kernel upgrade."
Instead of using implementation dependent functions, use a library like trivial-shell, which is also available via QuickLisp. It has the SHELL-COMMAND function you need.

http://common-lisp.net/project/trivial-shell/
The best part of that was learning about gnuclad. I've been looking for a timeline generator for the past few weeks.
How the pantheon has lasted 2000 years without steel in its concrete
Ask HN: Interaction programming
What would programming process and languages look like if the only way to reflect on a piece of code would be to interact with it? No interfaces, no objects. Sure, message passing, but without knowledge of what's on the other end nor what it likes to receive. Sort of like rumor-exploration framework. My thinking is to send test messages to explore, to reply with informative messages to test requests. But those are just example, primitive cases.
I was just posting because I found it funny that such a low-tech thing ended up being an indicator of availability of information online. I'll keep quiet about usenet now. :)
It's not really an entertainment industry thing.

Someone who's paid his dues by getting a PHD from CMU is more likely to get a job at Google than some guy who just read books on his own. Sure the guy who read books might create some startup, get some heat, and get bought out by google. And that can happen to a writer outside of the industry. But all things being equal, the smart money goes on the PHD.

And sure, every once in a long while you can get someone like Ross Perot, who mounts a serious Presidential campaign with ZERO political experience, but the overwhelming majority of serious presidential candidates paid their dues.

I'm sure the analogy can be applied to about any industry out there.
Is working for someone as a personal assistant really 'building relationships', though? I suspect that personal anecdotes are poor proof in this case because the huge number of low-level employees who pay their dues and get nothing out of it are hardly in a position to give advice on how to break into show business. On the other hand, if most people are trying to get in through relationships, then you would expect that most people who were successful would have done it that way. It doesn't say much about your relative chances with either approach.
The Time Is Right For Functional Design Patterns
That's great to hear! I'll continue the experience then.
Cheers, I thought there might be something that was QL installable but didn't want to get sidetracked from the task at hand. I'll have a play with that in the morning :)
If iPad = PC, Apple = #1 US Computer Maker
Nor does the FDA info I quoted say that Modafinil is not a stimulant. Either way, you're arguing semantics and using personal anecdotes as your sources. We've already established that the effects of Modafinil are similar to that of other stimulants, and I've linked multiple studies showing that its mode of action overlaps with that of stimulants, and that the side effects of traditional stimulants show up in Modafinil (albeit with reduced frequency and magnitude). You can call it what you want, but none of that changes what I've posted here.

I'm going to step out of this debate, as arguing semantics only detracts from the topic at hand at this point.
Mathematics, like most languages meant for humans, is ambiguous -- maybe less than most, though. Programming languages are so unambiguous, on the other hand, that not only people but even computers can understand them!
argh... I have to register to read article. I'll just open the paper to read the piece.
Kohana has awful documentation though -- compared to CI. I think it's a good idea to start with CI to learn to nuances of PHP MVCs and then switch to Kohana with that knowledge in hand.
There are some server-side implementation notes here, focused on Apache: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/07/10/overclock...

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/09/05/blacklisting.html is also interesting; it says Chrome will use a blacklist to avoid using False Start on some domains.

Also, does anyone know which older clients require that the server cache the session information? The article doesn't say.
Take a look at Urban Survival (http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm) and the peoplenomics and halfpasthuman sites referred to there.

George Ure says some weird things, but I find the discussions and predictions there fascinating.

All I can say is, I don't know what's going on.
Not surprised that Jobs was unwilling to give up a hardware business.

I'm not surprised Jobs was unwilling to give up a business he built (twice!) for a business someone else built.
True. You obviously don't know much about this industry. I worked for Disney Studios for a while after they bought Infoseek where I worked. Th clash of cultures was evident there as it is here. The main measures of success in the entertainment biz are qualitative, not quantitative despite what financial data and audience measurements can lead you to believe. There are many more talented writers than there are producers to produce their scripts. It's all about relationships and it's also about talent too but talent alone is just not enough. So I repeat the advice: just figure it the fuck out ;-)
I think your perception that the entertainment industry is in anyway a meritocracy is naive. There are always exceptions to the rule but for the most part it is still a "it's not what you know it's who you know" industry. This discussion reminds me of one of my favorite all time bumper stickers: "Real Musicians Have Day Jobs."
I'm not suggesting you are "guilty" of anything. Just that reading what someone like you is doing to cope with such a situation isn't likely to help someone like me figure out how to move forward in terms of juggling all the things I have to deal with. And folks like me are probably a lot more abundant than folks like you. I have health problems, financial problems, am divorced and still have two sons living with me. They are both legal adults but neither has an income of their own and they are both special needs kids (as am I).

This is the best quality of life situation I have ever had and in some ways I am also fairly privileged: I still get substantial alimony (many women don't get substantial alimony long term) and I have some education and I'm reasonably intelligent. So I am not without assets of my own, even extraordinary/unusual assets. Still, I remain enormously frustrated with my own desire to start something on the side that might someday allow me to work from home and leave my day job -- which isn't simply a "want" in my case. Because of my health issues and the issues my sons have (one of whom has the same medical condition I have), we really need to make that happen.

So when I see pieces about how someone is juggling work, kids, and a side project, I read it in hopes it will help me. But people with a nanny probably don't have much to say that will help me move my goals and projects forward. That's a completely different sphere than the one I live in. That's all I'm saying. Has nothing to do with anyone being guilty of something.

Peace.
I should also say that we have an accessiblity document all designs must follow, so anyone working with us will be aware that they need to consider such things before they start. I'll see if I can link to a copy.
James May's "Man Lab" - a return to building things.
This snippet basically sum's it for me:

"Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it’s lonely. Yes, you give up many other things that are important to you. But that’s what being an [entrepreneur] is."
Disclaimer: Everything I know about Hollywood I learned from watching Entourage...

A big difference between breaking in to the script writing world and breaking in to the web app / internet startup world is the amount of effort required to evaluate your work.

A new web app / start up can be evaluated in a few seconds. We do it all day long on this website ("Check out my new project...").

A new script for a movie or show probably takes a few hours to read (excluding Michael Bay movies...). That's a huge commitment to ask of someone. You always see producers / director being asked to "read my script". That's a lot of work.

So, my guess is that all the work to start at the bottom and build relationships is required because the people you need help from (producers / directors etc.) need to like you before they will invest the 3 hours in reading your script. Michael Arrington doesn't need to like you to take 5 seconds to look at your MVP page.
Also, you might find this slow little utility for converting a bunch of stuff into strings. It will do the job nicely, and it accepts every Lisp type.

(defun str (&rest strings)
(apply 'concatenate 'string
(loop for x in strings
collecting (format nil "~a" x))))

You can use it like this:

(shell (str "dot -Tpng -O " fname))

You might also find that WITH-OPEN-FILE arguments can get a little unwieldy to type in the repl, specially if you want to overwrite files, so you can use this WITH-TEXT-FILE macro. For binary files you will just need to add (:element-type '(unsigned-byte 8))

(defmacro with-text-file ((stream path) &body body)
`(with-open-file (,stream ,path
:direction :io
:if-exists :supersede
:if-does-not-exist :create)
,@body))
I think there are several start-ups which are boring and we don't hear about. I think I fit into this case and I'd love to hear other stories as well.

My startup at http://new.surveyshare.com is a tool where you can develop online surveys and collect results from people you know. Not glamorous, but people need it, and I am ramen profitable. However unglamorous, I am willing to continue working on it and enjoy it, which I think is the important part.
they have financial firms as customers
Enjoy yourself!

Of course, you're more than welcome to shoot me an email if you ever get stuck.

Here is a far more forgiving reference to Common Lisp than the Hyperspec, though don't let the fancy TeX typesetting intimidate you.

http://clqr.berlios.de/clqr-a4-consec.pdf

In addition to that, I think you should dump yourself a nice image with ASDF and QL builtin, so you don't have to load them every time.
Spot on. Any time some industry insider tells people they need to work like slaves to get a good position has no idea how economics works. Instead the industry insider should be telling people we have enough people looking to break in and you should work in some other industry until ours settle into a more manageable supply/demand ratio.
Rather, stroke the ego of the person you're talking to...

Admissions people interview hundreds of students, and they're not idiots. They'll see through this in an instant.