skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. C# uses != and == for string comparisons. Maybe the question should be: should an immutable string class be considered primitive considering how frequently it's used despite the fact it's internally passed by ref? I guess that debate is fairly academic and not very useful. Regardless, I agree with the author's point. I don't like having to use the "equals" method in Java for strings. It feels a bit outdated.
World Bank President Advocates Return to Gold Standard
Okay, that's what I suspected. At the right level of abstraction, you can certainly find non-selfish activities. But a gene's-eye-view is the most significant view, because in the long term anything that doesn't adhere to that view is extinct.

Certainly a complete sociopath will still have non-selfish internal organs. But it's highly reductionist to claim that a sociopath is not sociopathic because his heart generously pumps blood to his other organs.

What looks like generosity generally falls into a few categories of gene-level selfishness, e.g. kin altruism, in-group altruism, reciprocal gifts, etc. Our evolutionary inheritance doesn't allow for pure altruism; that's a bug that gets fixed by selfish groups out-reproducing.
Placebo buttons: 'door-close' buttons, others, don't do anything
My friend Christophe, who offered to video everything, was there, as was Jerry from The Cake Gallery, a local business that specializes in penis cakes.

Wait, what?

Penis cakes?

http://thecakegallerysf.com/

3-D Cakes
3-Dimensional cakes are popular whether it’s a simple Barbie Cake or an elaborate Wedding Cake. Adults Only, X-Rated Cakes or our most provocative creations are adult in nature. Our X-Rated themes range from male and female body parts to any sexual depiction your demented mind can create.

Nice.
Argh, the complexities of Java!

Integer a = new Integer(10);

Integer b = new Integer(10);

Integer c = new Integer(1000);

Integer d = new Integer(1000);

a==b is true

c==d is false
The results of the pricing/service tests for historious
I don't ever use mine (Logitech G5) because it not only has side-to-side actions, but many times when i try to middle click, the wheel will scroll. I know this is probably my own coordination, but I find I really have to press it perfectly perpendicularly. Maybe there have been improvements in middle-click technology in the past few years.
I never actually wrote Symbian code, but there was a time where it was on the horizon at the company I worked at, so I did some reading to prepare me for it. The only horrors I actually remember are the string classes and the exception handling, but even if the rest of the system were perfect, I would still agree with you.
Sounds promising.

Oh yeah, as I recall Hotspot doesn't have production quality generational GC yet. That tends to pay off big in functional languages and if I'd had to guess before reading about your priorities I would have bet that generational would be fairly advantageous for a lot of Perl code, certainly the majority I've written (e.g. ETL programs).

Good luck! Nail down this and your concurrency by the time Clojure-in-Clojure is written (there's no guess when that'll happen) and I wouldn't be surprised if someone chooses Parrot as a porting target.
> Does not work in Internet Explorer

Enough said (unfortunately).
Would you laugh at someone who thought that it was a good thing for humans to selectively breed plants and animals? We certainly couldn't maintain our population without them. Would you laugh at someone who had a preference for a desirable spouse? That's a common form of eugenics: people prefer healthy, sane, productive mates.

There's obviously a difference between preference and policy. But my guess is that you're willing to reap the benefits of eugenics without considering the ethical implications.
http://i.imgur.com/mHyMB.png

Stop signing your posts, you're only proving his point.

We can move on to doing this kind of analysis with your site if you'd like to persist in pretending you're not one of 1,000 other people on the internet with the same personality blog about how OH SO RANDOM and INTERESTING you are.
Disney's ambitious investments made during the downturn
I think jumping to the conclusion that "calorie counting is what matters most" or that it's "not the nutritional value of the food" is bad science. This experiment proved that it was possible for one man to loose weight eating only junk food. I'm not a statistician, but I'm going to guess that a sample size of 1 is too small to generalize. There was also no competing hypothesis tested in this experiment. A trial was not done where the nutritional value of the food was tested.

Anyway, in my anecdotal experience, I've been able to go from 205 back to my college pole-vaulting weight of 185 by following a 40-30-30 ratio of calories from fats, carbs, and protein without ever worrying about total calories. That's great for me but it says nothing about you because a simply can't generalize from my unique experience.
Massachusetts and Colorado Top Entrepreneurial State Rankings
Diwali Celebrations in India (Satellite Picture)
Thanks goodness for RVM, this was a nightmare.
My heart bleeds for you . Its really does. Writing boilerplate code -- oh the horror !

And yet an evil part of my brain would like to subject you to annotations and spring config xml files. But that can wait till you Python lovers grow up and get a real job !!
Anand does some performance tests:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...

summary: pretty good!
I think the FAQ answers this question nicely: http://docs.python.org/faq/design.html#why-are-colons-requir...
I am pretty sure Oracle does this as well.
MBA benchmark http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2010/10/116-macbook-air-...

Using X-Bench, we saw the 128GB model—the APPLE SSD TS128C—give the following numbers:

Seq Uncached Write: 134MB/sec (4k blocks)
Seq Uncached Write: 158MB/sec (256k blocks)
Seq Uncached Read: 68.5MB/sec (4k blocks)
Seq Uncached Read: 165.8 MB/sec (256k blocks)

Random Uncached Write: 32.18MB/sec (4k)
Random Uncached Write: 116.5 (256k)
Random Uncached Read: 8.27 (4k)
Random Uncached Read: 108.56 (256k)
HN,

I created this analysis to get another view of entrepreneurial activity in the US.

On a tech note, these graphs were created with Protovis, a JS toolkit discussed recently here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808334 Since Protovis and IE don't yet work well together (IE9 may change that), the page degrades for IE users to show PNGs instead of the JS SVGs.

The inspiration for this visualization came from the Stanford Visualization Group's choropleth here: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/choropleth.html

I would appreciate comments and feedback! Thank you.
Poorly. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...
You're right to bring this up, and certainly those studies are the best hard numbers we have, but:

Do the studies correct for employee satisfaction with working more, corporate culture, employee skill, employee personal life status, or level of excitement/interest in work? Because I think all of those would be a positive factor at Apple.
Agreed.

Thinking about it now, I would rather the inverse in a language be true, and have == be used for value comparison, and have a more wordy function for reference comparison. In my experience, I feel that its a much more common usage, and would probably reduce errors caused by programmers choosing the wrong operator. The only downside to this is that you then have to override an operator if you want to change equality comparison, instead of a function.
Thanks a lot for making this website. A lot of good stuff on there already.
Great article. I specially liked this part:

"At a recent meeting I heard "The only thing that matters is innovative and passionate people." These people do matter, but they are very far from being the only ones. This attitude misses the point that it was all our people, working in many different work settings, that made this country prosper. And all of them will all be needed in any viable future for our country."
I really like the "Featured System" functionality.

In fact, I think you should focus on the Featured System thing. I am a casual DIY part picker, and I would rather just browse several community vetted configurations.

Other people are more interested in building a system from scratch, or commenting on other people's configs.

Now, imagine a "fork this configuration" option! So a builder can fork someone else's system but make some slight mods.

---

Please add a Disqus thread to the bottom of each page, so people can comment on the configuration or part.

---

Also, if you are buying a bunch of parts, you might be able to save money on shipping by ordering parts from fewer distributors. Incorporating shipping cost would be another useful feature, but perhaps tricky to implement.
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True, it would be very difficult to gain a meaningful amount of knowledge in that time. But I view it as a gateway into subjects that I normally wouldn't touch. It is more about exposure rather than depth.

Another purpose of the project is to get out there and have meaningful interactions with others. It's fantastic to be taught by someone who is passionate about what they are teaching.
I think that's too harsh. The book has more "micro" errors than I'd like to see. By "micro" errors I mean some poorly drawn diagrams and some grammar errors that break my flow. I noticed that no editor is credited, and the book would be improved with an editor. Too many micro errors can hurt a books credibility (if they didn't take the time to polish the book can I really trust the content?).

On the other hand, I think the advice in this book is fantastic. Two examples of things discussed:

1) Deciding what type of market you are entering (existing, re-segmented, new) and the consequences of each market type.

2) Confirming your hypothesis before you try to scale.

Get past the micro errors. The content really is quite good. Or I think it's good. What the hell do I know. There's a scene in Moonstruck where one of the characters seeks advice until she gets the answer she wanted to hear in the first place ('maybe they're afraid of dying?'). There may be some of that going on with me and this book.
In this case I think the PEP8 spacing guidelines are counterproductive:

f() if a==42 else g()

looks much more readable to me than

f() if a == 42 else g()
Decoding the Value of Computer Science
.NET languages (C#, powershell, for example) have list comprehensions as well. They seem to be unappreciated languages amongst the "cool kids" due to their Microsoftian origin.
10k? Bah. Here's my JS 1k entry: http://js1k.com/demo/285
Wait till he discovers the awesomeness of first class objects and functions.
Perhaps the real problem is that Friedman's money comes from "nowhere" so to speak. He doesn't produce any physical goods and his wife's fortune comes from the trading and management acumen of her father. He can't understand a world where wealth is created via physical processes.
You're right - the propeller may help early acceleration by acting as a sail, but it's never rotated by the wind. Thanks for the improvement.
Given the limited set of things he goes over (with the exception of block indenting trouble) you could replace "Python" with "PHP" and still have the same article. Don't crucify me, just pointing that out.
I just finished building an internal web application for my school entirely in Java. From start to finish it took about eight hours, roughly the same amount of time it would've taken in Python/Django or RoR, thanks to the Play Framework.

Java doesn't need to be ridiculously verbose, others have mentioned much of that verbosity stems from basic functions not being included in the standard library. Python's opening of a file isn't any more elegant than Java's if you look at the code behind open(), it's just abstracted away.
OS X (and derivative iOS) are essentially proprietary GUIs put on top of a FreeBSD base system on top of a hybrid Mach/XNU kernel with a bit of FreeBSD mixed in.
RecoverCredit.com

If you wanna see some sweet domains, check out my friends site: datacube.com
It seems like the rankings are mostly an artifact of where state borders happen to be. Why don't you do it based on smaller regions, like metropolitan areas?
Really awesome looking app. I've definitely be interested in using it. I really like the 4 column dashboard.
What repeatable calculus? This is a story about one guy not a study of a population of people. I'd be cautious before you jump to the conclusion that these results will generalize. That probably says more about your own biases than it does any scientific learning that was produced by this experiment.
The author points out each company's profits over the last 10-years (RIM $9 Bil, TiVo -$400 Mil), yet as many have commented, this isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. What would have been more effective would be to give some metrics on how each company did within their own industries. How did RIM do in comparison to the mobile hardware market, as % market share? How did TiVo do within their market industry?

RIM's success can be in part attributed to the explosive growth of the mobile technology industry. Maybe TiVo did great in the DVR/ VCR industry, but that industry just isn't nearly as lucrative.

A better question to answer would have been how did each company do in their industry. Or even better, give an example of a characteristically "hubris" approach of a product in the mobile hardware space, and compare it to RIM's "humility" approach.
Armed police raid unlicensed barbers
The analogy would have to be, "if you are worried about that then your only option is to refrain from parking it in public places with the keys in the ignition."
Since the promise of the CLR was any language one platform they went out and built several different types of languages to see how well it worked. F# actually attracted developers so they decided to keep it.

Note that F# began life as Ocaml on the CLR, not another language from scratch. Then it picked up "light" syntax and then moved to light as the default syntax. Also note that F# has been around for a while now, so yeah C# 4 isn't bad but C# 4 wasn't even on the horizon when F# got started.
So in your model, this car would run go equally fast without the gears between the propeller and the wheels? Why then do sailboats not have propellers instead of sails?
Link to consultant guide: http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant
It's not the same, because with someone's password you can completely lock them out of their account instead of just acting as them.
You'll enjoy the posts below then. Matt Taibbi takes skewering Friedman and raises it to the level of an art form:

- http://www.nypress.com/article-11419-flathead.html

- http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5950

- http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html

- http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/23/tom-friedman-stri...
http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Clearly not made by people that think this way. I doubt even higher up staff think this way. I.e. Jobs, Ive.
get natural light, get fresh air, get quietness.
Where are the roaches in NYC - the Great Urban Hack
Or maybe it's because powershell and C# only run on windows and are not open source and we're not interested in using a technology that is playing catch up with a moving target (mono).
Their shares are in common stock. Same as founders
Sort of. It takes you to a page like http://playground.deaxon.com/css/lightbox/#pic1 which shows the image but it's not a direct link to the image.
Bravo! What an inventive and inspiring approach to something big and important. Best of luck with it.

I wonder whether you might want to simplify the landing page. I really had to watch the video (which I liked) to figure out what you're doing.

Maybe it's as simple as . . .

A new way to work together

Turbocharge your team with the decentralized
workstyle pioneered by Wikipedia and Mozilla
You're probably right; where many see fertile soil for an entertaining conspiracy theory, there may be as little as human forgetfulness. The interesting part is the implications of such omissions, and not the reasons behind them.
Isn't that what Apache Commons is for? It's sad that you have to resort to that but at least someone stepped up to the plate.
iPad can be your only computer - until things go wrong
I’m not surprised at all. I lost 40 pounds just calorie counting, changing nothing at all about what I ate. (No happy ending here. You have to be really disciplined for a long time to keep your weight and over the following years I gained it all back.)

You will automatically tend to eat healthier, though. 200g of potato chips make you happy for a few hours but you will feel terrible for the rest of the day (because you cannot eat anything else). Carrots taste nearly as good and you can eat a ton (not literally) of them.
All the advertising networks we deal with only offer HTTPS. Hardly any advertising networks support HTTPS.
Except that they won't, they'll just lower prices and get bailed out with tax-dollars if they get into financial trouble. Air-travel is now a matter of national security, and by this token airlines are not threatenable.
> IronPython and F# projects seem to demonstrate that it takes a long time to make a credible language for CLR/Visual Studio. A grammar for your language, a compiler, ok. How long did it take? But then you realize oh no, VS support will take many man-years. Whoops.

IronPython has had working (albeit beta) VS support for nearly half a year now.

ironpython.net and get IronPython toools for Visual Studio.
Love the idea, I feel like Noam Chomsky would dig this.

It might be good to have kind of a short outline or guide on how this would be used, kind of like Joel Spolsky's guide on Mercurial:

http://hginit.com/
Yes, I know it already exists. I run them all at my company. But these projects are often playing catchup to the latest protocol changes. Thus my question.
Do you have a filing system, or just a ridiculously good memory? This is hardly the first time you've provided a list of similar or identical submissions...
Oh, I hadn't heard of rcirc, I didn't realize you were using IRC via Emacs already (I hold no allegiance to ERC). I'll check it out.

One more question: have you noticed bitlbee failing to proxy lines with non-ascii characters? That was by far the most annoying thing I ran into, but I was using it via Xchat --- for example, a non-technical friend copy/pasted some text with curly quotes and I get nothing but "FriendName: " (blank line). I had to return to Pidgin just because of that.
Also, just in case anyone else gets ideas, political activity at SFO is restricted. You'll need to request a permit from the Security Access Office first.

See: https://www.sfoconnect.com/operations-security/sfo-operation...

Also the Rules and Regulations at SFO: https://www.sfoconnect.com/public/sfo-rules-and-regulations
It would work better if closing the picture was the same as pressing back (or at least removed the last entry).
My recollection was that the person was saying they liked the content, just that it lacked some polish.

Like I said though, that was just a vague notion I had. I haven't read the book, but do enjoy reading the stuff he posts to his site a lot.
From my own personal experience, F# got Microsoft into a lot of hedge funds, prop shops, and other places with math/physics staff that like functional languages that would otherwise have been Unix-focused.
"Writing, in other words, is just coding by a different name."

No.
Here's another ranking of the best states to do business in. (Not trying to trump your website, but just giving some more resources for folks!)

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37554006/
I like this, but at the same time parts of it strike me as odd.

Nobody tells anybody what to do? Really? Who's taking out the trash next week? Who's working through the weekend to make sure the install goes okay? Who's working Christmas?

It has that open-source feel to it -- wonderful, cool, awesome -- and you wonder whether everything could really be like this, or just stuff people are excited about. After all, there are a lot of things to do in any organization that people do not like doing. And the normative payment idea? Wow! I'd love to see that actually being used. Whether workable or not, its a very powerful idea.

Having said all of that negative stuff, I think you are on to something. Congrats! I want to see real-world, for-profit organizations using this because it makes them competitive. I think that's the put up or shut up moment for this product. But if you're willing to pivot, I know you'll make it. Awesome job.

Now the critical part: traction.
Thanks, Paul. I'm doing some of that as well by geocoding all the filings. For instance, here are the most recent filings from California, geocoded down to the exact address:

http://www.formds.com/filings/advanced_filter?filters_params...
Why is this not surprising.
That would be nice for the power users, but opening the App Store protocol seems opposite to Apple's entire vision for their mobile iOS and OSX app stores. Apple doesn't water down their products with compromise and while that upsets a lot of users, it's also the entire reason why a lot of Apple software and hardware feels an entire generation above competitors products.

Apple's choices and thick-headedness bugs me, but I'm happy there is a major player out there who doesn't give in to the loud minority of power-users.
A key word missing from the HN title is "most." Most door-close buttons don't work, most pedestrian walkways buttons don't work, but some do, and it's very easy to test which ones do.

They aren't all placebos.
I feel obliged to point out the limitations of LORAN. Current-generation systems are only accurate to within a few hundred metres and they are just as vulnerable to geomagnetic storms as satellite-based systems. LORAN-C operates on 90 to 110khz, so it is vulnerable to multipath interference caused by skywave propagation. At present it also has relatively limited coverage, most obviously in North America. LORAN is a wonderfully simple, rugged aid to maritime navigation, but it is no substitute for GPS.

Modern radio systems are so slick and mature that it is easy for us to imagine that they are a magical force akin to electronic telepathy, but they are reliant on simple electromagnetic radiation and highly susceptible to interference. Beyond the obvious issues of space weather, propagation and accidental interference, most radio systems are trivially easy to deliberately interfere with and we are now at a stage where intersatellite conflict could cause massive destruction. We have no realistic means of either defending satellites or of removing orbital debris. GPS is tremendously vulnerable, particularly to malicious attack and we are best to assume that it will fail completely at some time in the immediate future.
I know they exist, thanks. I am asking only about the motivation for fostering a new language for the CLR, and the costs involved. I am proposing that building in tool support is, while necessary for adoption, costly.

Another anecdotal aside - small teams seem to throw together Eclipse-based tools with little cost. From a UX point of view, Eclipse is not provably "better" than tools built using Visual Studio, right?
So you're saying if I wanted to get promoted I should work 20 hr days? After all working 12s is expected because everybody does that.
Functional programming languages such as Ocaml/F# offer many things that are not in imperative languages such as C# (and arguably vice versa). In the spirit of ``the right tool for the job'' the .net platform needs a functional language to solve certain problems effectively. In this sense the value of F# is far more important to the .net framework than e.g. IronPython.
It is no magic, in the simplest explanation it all comes down to the law of thermodynamics and calorie balance.

If you are interested in this kind of stuff, check Lyle's website[1]. He has many good articles about this kind of stuff.

[1]: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance...