skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know how this "most popular languages" list is calculated? I can imagine several methods:

* Number of projects containing a language.
* Number of projects having most of the code in a language.
* Lines of code in a language.
* Number of users having a language in some repository.

Plus there is this whole forking thing going on...
In-app purchases is a big business
Tumblerror: Make your own tumblr error
I have not self-published anything myself, so I have no direct experience to answer your question. But if I could throw out a suggestion... you might get some useful info from Henry at http://www.publishandsell.com/ He's basically a consultant who helps folks who are self-publishing books. He was one of the early employees at Lulu and is a very sharp guy.

(Disclaimer: I used to work with with Henry at Lulu, and he is a friend. This plug was not solicited by him however, and I have no financial interest in publishandsell.com)
At least Buzz and Profiles are still not working for Google Apps users.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
It can be role based, so you could still have one role for all users, such as view and insert only for a forum. But our solution has an interesting twist: security is managed like queries. For example, taking a sports social network, a team's messages can be sent [an insert] by team members, but seen [view rights] by members of the team and their friends. This is all set with two statements.

It makes it so that you can go more often just directly to the database.
Valid points. If there was interest in this I would offer the choice of Blueprint or 960.gs. As for HTML, I would use my starting template which resembles HTML5-Boilerplate and the choice of HTML5 elements(header, footer, article etc.) or not.

In theory, this would be a decent paying day-job. I spent the year of 2008 converting PSDs to WordPress themes for $500/theme. With that experience I can convert a PSD to markup in under an hour per page.
Leaving Canonical
It's the extraordinary who motivate others to excel in what they believe in, whether its the day to day of raising a family or tackling a summit nearly 30,000 feet from sea level. I have huge amounts of respect for anyone willing to even attempt this and it shows you just how far focus and determination can take a person.

Thanks for the link O.P, it really made an impact on certain priorities and perspective.
You're not the only person that thinks that. See this post by John Nagle on comp.lang.python:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/0c0a8da7...
I think the learning curve tends to be steeper if you have to "unlearn" some of your preconceived notions from using a centralized VCS.
"Private" does not generally mean "only authorized access" which is why I had to ask for clarification. The public isn't allowed into many library stacks, but just because I'm not authorized to access the stacks doesn't mean the information there is private.

But to answer your response ... let's see, there's "top secret", which is restricted to fewer people. Those wouldn't be on the same network as these cables and therefore would not have been accessible by the person who gave them to Wikileaks.

There's secrecy levels above "top secret." There are phone calls. There are in-person meetings. So if the Secretary of State and the US diplomat to Xyzzy wanted a more secure communication then it's possible in quite a number of ways.

I am deliberately going after your premise because it makes little sense. There is no such thing as a "secure interchange", only levels of insecurity. The computer could be bugged, the meeting room surveilled, a staff member compromised. Even SSH has had to work to fix the subtle attacks people have come up with data exchange, and that's only one part of the entire system.

If 3 million people can read a document then you should not expect the same level of confidentiality as, say, the paper listing the launch codes to the US nuclear missile system. (Hint: no longer 00000000.) Old quote: "three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Wikileaks adds nothing new to this discussion. The Pentagon Papers were marked top secret. Reporters have made a long living off of knowing who the right people are to get the information they need for a story. And politicians have long known how to curry favor with the right reporters to leak the information - true or false - they want.

So in answer to your question: 1) Diplomats should have a secure communication (Kennedy's negotiation to get the missiles out of Cuba in exchange for withdrawing US missiles from Italy and Turkey shows the importance of that), 2) privacy has nothing to do with it. 3) Wikileaks doesn't change anything about the principles.

It might change our view on how duplicitous diplomats and world leaders are, or change our ideas on the importance assigned to "secret" documents, but that would be an answer to another question.
A closure is also a poor man's class (sort of).

I've often wished that C# let me implement interfaces with anonymous classes. Since it doesn't, I get around it by creating AdHoc classes for interfaces that I use a lot.

For instance, if I have an interface Foo defined as:

interface Foo
{
string Bar(int x);
}

then I also create a corresponding class called AdHocFoo defined like so:

class AdHocFoo : Foo
{
Func<int, string> _bar;

public AdHocFoo(Func<int, string> bar)
{
_bar = bar;
}

public string Bar(int x)
{
return _bar(x);
}

}

I've written a little program that creates these AdHoc class definitions from interfaces.
Thanks for writing this Spencer. I asked about "What does a biz person do at a startup" at the YC meetup; and your earlier article was brought up. Awesome sequel!
The burning of cars was - as far as I understand it - a direct consequence of multiple decades of festering trouble that was not adequately recognized or responded to by politicians. The shortest complete description of the background on this was something like 'these youths are protesting not against any specific policy but against being born in to a situation that they find it almost impossible to escape from in the country that they are nominally a citizen of'.

If you can do better than that be my guest, but I definitely see them as motivated by politics, even if not directly attacking a specific policy or having a concrete goal. It's more an act of frustration with life set off by the friction between police and these youths, specifically one incidence was the spark that set off the powder.
A colleague, who was present when Tim presented the WWW at a CERN seminar in its early days, reported to me that one person in the assistance asked at the end of the presentation what was the use for this software (quelle est l'utilité de ce logiciel).
I'm pretty sure that Lulu charges a $79 setup fee for each title -- at least, when I last checked a couple months ago.
Seems to work just fine in Firefox.
So as NeXT founder, Steve Jobs was indirectly responsible for HTML? Of course, Marc Andreessen was responsible for images and also porting the NeXT code to Windows/MacOS.
I really want to know the context of this comment, now the parent is deleted...
I think what digitallogic is saying is that based on this heuristic, this article isn't worth reading or discussing.
Aaron Sorkin: In Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming
24 Ways To Start - The Advent Calendar for Entrepreneurs.
Judging by the difficulty that MC has in dealing with this one I wonder how big that 'small group' really is.
It worked for me just now.
It's certainly not the same thing, and as I said before I would never risk my life in pursuit of what I perceive to be a meaningless goal.

My point, however, was that I do not presume to judge others based on the risks that they take in their own lives. The juxtaposition I was trying to make is that people comfortable in their corporate lives might say it's selfish or crazy to persue one's dreams of creating a startup at significant financial risk, just like some people here are saying it's selfish or crazy to want to climb Everest.

Is skydiving a suicidal activity? Are surfers that risk shark attacks or storm chasers that follow tornadoes nothing more than stupid, selfish, suicidal sacks of meat? I personally don't think so, but you are of course entitled to an opinion all of your own.

By the way, I'm more than happy to converse different opinions in a civilized manner; bleeding sarcasm isn't necessary to get your point across.
Original was something like "give me $x and I'll fill your cavities"
Situations where I see the term "artificial intelligence" used:

(1) a legacy hold-over from the bad old days when people thought symbolic inference was central to human intelligence (e.g. AAAI, JAIR)

(2) research on extending old-fashioned AI to be actually useful (e.g. Markov Logic Networks)

(3) most commonly (as in this case), a vaguely defined desired outcome and a bundle of poorly understood cool-sounding techniques.

"We'll making computers learn-- with neurons! And Evolution! And Prolog?"
I hope this will have them a kick to spread into Europe.

For now, as they use only US EC2 regions, it's only possible for many EU-located users to have a prototype or a toy project on Heroku. Believe me, those few routers more and pings > 100ms do make a difference.
Better than appsumo: All of Arrested Development: $28 on amazon
i say $55 billion Dollars will do the job. ;)
i really like the titles "Sir" and "The wealthiest man in the world" ..
I hope im not day dreaming .. again.. :)
Big Ten commissioner: League has sacrificed plenty ~ A News Fuse
My contact with SJ was when I wanted to scan his book Stonekeep for my 'game novellas' website. He went ballistic and called me a pirate. I pointed out all the other novellas have personal permission from the rights holders to be hosted on my site, and he said that was fine then.

He said contact Interplay. I did so - no response.
Yes, definitely. If you offer it, I'll take you up on it once he's open for design applications again.
How Hunch Built a Data-Crunching Monster
I feel that the same could have been said after/during the industrial revolution. When the tools to enact change become so large that no one person can build a product (whether that be a vehicle, or a desktop computer), there will be someone warning that our dependence on technology is increasing.

Not that I don't agree with Woz, but I think it helps put this in perspective. If the internet or our power grid had some massive failure how easily would life continue? Would businesses continue to operate? Supply chains for food and production? These are important questions, in my opinion.
Wouldn't it be just as sexist to assume that someone named "Alice" is a woman? Well, maybe not just as sexist. But at least a little bit sexist. I mean, for all we know, someone named "Alice" could be a male-to-female transgendered individual who still prefers to use the male pronoun. Or a female-to-male transgendered person who kept his original name to cut down confusion among friends, but switched pronouns.

I guess I shouldn't debate... I read the line about "... the hilarious moment 3 seconds into an intimate embrace when I realize that I'm literally rubbing the screen of my iPhone against his spine," and assumed the author was female because in my head, the "default" participants in an intimate embrace are a guy & a girl, since that's the one I'm most familiar with. So, negative points for me on the knee-jerk gender assumption front.

I thought that was a really great line, potential elicited sexism notwithstanding, by the way. I've had those moments myself. It took me a second to realize exactly what she was talking about, but once I did, I couldn't help but chortle at how much I've chided myself for the very same thing.
I was working for a project at Chicago that partnered with some other project at CERN, so we saw it pretty early. This perspicacious understanding of technology trends I displayed may well have much to do with my current ramen and water diet and my distinct lack of super-villian hollowed-out volcano headquarters.
>I know people who washed into Cisco in acquisitions who multiple times left to start companies marketing remarkably specific and incremental improvements to existing Cisco products

When you put it that way, it actually sounds like a wonderful (for Cisco) way to outsource the risk of innovation by offering to pay a premium for good ideas that are well executed.
Automatically generate screenshots of your rails tests
You seriously didn't have the balls to post this under your own account?
They're now collectively turning down something. That's not something they should be allowed to do, given that they control a lot when it comes to moving money. It puts a consumer in a position where he has no choice.
I'm glad that you agree that diplomats should have secure communications, but, secure != private, seems semantic.
Is it ok to use warez software at a startup?
Higher definition video from NASA for those who missed the webcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1qwDxw9nk
Haskell, Erlang, Lua

I do C++ and q/kdb+ professionally, plus I know enough Python to get by. The three above are pretty different and would be interesting to expand my horizons.

Bonus question: Spanish (it's the second most common language in the States)
> Despite his frustrations with gadgetry, Wozniak is still a gearhead. He says he carries five to 10 cell phones around with him at a given time. Sometimes he'll set up half a dozen of them, along with standalone GPS units, on his car's windshield, all navigating him to the same spot.

What?

(I have to say, I respect Woz as an engineer, but this kind of odd behavior reduces his credibility as a popular technology prognosticator for me.)
I wrote a small GUI based HTML scraping client about 5 years ago with PLT Scheme. It was a wonderful experience and building a basic cross-platform GUI was pretty easy given the great documentation those guys write along with the language.

The executable was small, and it was easy for the users to pass around a little 1MB .exe file on windows (also had a separate compiled version for OS X) and they used it for years after I left until the web pages it targeted changed (and I don't work there anymore).

If somebody is open to learning Scheme, you can't go wrong building something in Racket, I was pretty surprised what I accomplished in a month.
Somebody delivering the same service, but including HTML/CSS, could easily charge $150 and have more customers than they could possibly handle.
what do you mean by "relevance formula"?
You can implement your own Similarity measurement in lucene and change it at query time, so I'm guessing you mean something else?
Can someone please explain the disdain for Salesforce around here?
>I wonder if I should start building Heroku 2 now...

Yes, but make it good
Charity the fun way. After all, it’s the silly season.
We actually have an interesting topic, here - no particular need to start a long, all-consuming thread by throwing out a wildly-oversimplified bit of red meat.
"old-fashioned AI" is usually a term reserved for symbolic techniques fashionable in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Learning and data-oriented techniques are mostly the new kids on the block (for Computer Scientists at least-- stats people have been at this game all along).

As for bio-inspired techniques-- why should their point of inspiration be anything but a footnote? Genetic algorithms are just one instance of a stochastic search algorithm (there are many others), cellular automata can be pretty much anything, and so can neural networks (depending on whether you include the dozens of models more esoteric than multilayer perceptrons).
Ask HN: How are Google's "Chrome webapps" different from IE-specific websites?
I´m from Brazil and i already have stablished contact with him. You see here, $15 per hour is a good deal for a beginner designer. If he works 8 hours per day, he can make $120 bucks. In 20 days (avarage working month here), It´s a $2.400 or R$4.000,00. For somebody starting his professional life, around 24 ou 25 years old or even less, IT`S A KICK ASS MONEY !
"We've reimplemented the GUI layer, which meant throwing out about 200,000 lines of C++ code that built on Xt, Win32, and Carbon. We've replaced that C++ code with about 30,000 lines of Racket code that builds on Gtk, Win32, Cocoa, Cairo, and Pango."

That's not the same thing as saying 200K of C++ equals 30K of Scheme.
Your wish has been granted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983229
I'm already fluent in Mandarin and English and have some Japanese, Taiwanese, and Cantonese.

If I had extra time specifically for language learning, I'd like to have the Japanese become fluent and pick up some Spanish and Russian. Japanese because of its enormous economic and cultural clout, Russian, because a lot of Russians live in this part of the world, and Spanish because it's the second most common first language on the planet after Mandarin, which I already speak.
A small group of MC lawyers and executives also has say on whether you can use of the three largest payment methods on the planet to fund a group you sympathise with.

When it comes to oligopolies, the usual rule of corporations as private, independent entities that can do whatever they please, goes out the window.
The Dragon capsule's deorbit burn completed and it's headed back down to Earth.

[EDIT] and splashdown!
It was filmed at the Computer History Museum, so it's like that on purpose. Though, it doesn't look like this is the one, I know that they have one of Google's original racks which looks about as messy. (as seen here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/building-a-computer...)
Gracefull degradation is for making sites work on older browsers. What about making sites work on modern browsers which are other than your favourite one?

Using just -webkit prefixes everywhere will make sure it just plays nicely with webkit, and not with IE, Opera or Firefox.
Excuse me, but I'd really like to see your evidence of how the computational theory of mind is "widely accepted".
Dan Carlin: Entrepreneurship a High School Subject (53:23)
Well, I guess that was the wrong answer.
Right, they could probably have gotten the same effect by staying with C++ and switching to Qt.
I'm tempted to stuff tarballs in there for my pre-built release binaries, especially since I could give it a gpg signature in the tag. I wouldn't do this for large projects, but the case I have in mind is a tiny utility, ~25KB.

Does anyone know how github will handle tags pointing to a blob instead of a tree?

EDIT: On second thought, it probably makes more sense to have a "prebuilt" branch that has the actual tree of my release package. That would also let git share objects that are common to the source branch: README, manpages, etc.
Or, you could simply make it a feature. I would certainly not mind another link to my new page.
According to Reuters, Mastercard got hacked and then they suspend Wikileaks.
Google I/O - Building Scalable, Complex Apps on App Engine
What particular piece of software would you want or need but can't afford? Nowadays there are complete F/OSS development stacks and tools available.
I believe chrome is fairly standards-compliant, which IE is not. So your app will be more portable.
Clunky in Chrome browser, broken on Firefox.
Myhrvold's IV sues Hynix, Altera, McAfee and Symantec, among others
Despite being hopelessly unrelated to anything, I have to give this an upvote.

This show is amazingly witty and self-referential in subtle ways that reward repeat viewing. The characters are very well written, and ring true despite the farcical nature of the show.

I think it's a great fit for a hacker-ly sense of humor. It was way too good not to get canceled.

It's the "Inception" of sitcoms.
That's what the undocumented (as far as I know) AROUND word in searches is for.

If you type "cat AROUND(5) dog" into google, it'll return the top results that contain anywhere from 0 to 5 words between cat and dog.
That's an intellectually dishonest argument. In my opinion the restriction of funding to Wikileaks is far more damaging.
You can define arbitrary mathematical functions based on document variables stored in memory, and that you can change in real time. You can have as many of these as you want.

http://indextank.com/documentation/function-definition

(Feedback on this documentation is more than welcome, it's a work in progress!)
Why #wikileaks isn't trending on Twitter
Not that I disagree with your point, but 1989, while only 20 years ago was a different era. Especially regarding Romania or anywhere east of Berlin. It's closer to 1979 than it was to 1991 in a lot of regards.
Myth #13: There is only one type of cloud.
Truth: There are three layers of cloud services and deployment methods to support different business functions: Software-as-a-Service (Salesforce or Basecamp), Platform-as-a-Service (Engine Yard or Google’s App Engine), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud Servers).

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/12/07/cloud-computin...
Yes, but the monitoring interval is 30 minutes which is not useful in most cases.
I for one can't wait for the day when a government agency can detect that I'm initiating a DDOS from my home connection the second I start and immediately disconnect me, without a warrant, court order or trial.
Well the you can compare it with commercial sanctions to Cuba, Irak or North Korea that the international community don't suffer too much (they're not big players) but the people of those countries do, not only their governments.
I am not a fan of mob justice either — but neither am I a fan of "tour de force" justice as practiced by Amazon, Mastercard and Paypal, under pressure from US Government. I think this is a relatively good way for everyone involved to learn that every action has consequences.

Notice that if there is no response at all from, let's call it "the internet crowd", then there will be no free speech on the internet. Any attempt to say anything which corporations aren't comfortable with (this includes anything that the governments aren't comfortable with) will be quickly silenced.

So, while I am not a fan of 4chan's DDOS attacks, I see them as a reaction — similar to crowds in the streets.
Maybe some interpreted the question as If You Could Only Learn 3 Programming Languages... besides what you already know.
Google Just Helped Change The Media World for the Better
While the ebook market sometimes seems like the least sexy segment of the digital world, it’s still a huge deal.

After all, last time I checked, books were still a pretty big deal, whether in terms of how many people read or how many people many money off that fact.
How many generations do you think it has been since the original .com boom? (Hint, they aren't biological generations)
Testing DuckDuckGo CDN performance via Cedexis Radar
That's not true at all. A secretary filling documents should not be held responsible for the way the corporation is run. That's just plain idiocy to claim that employees of a company are to be held responsible for corporate policy. Now if they did something illegal while working, that' another story but I don't think that's what you meant here.
It's possible that maybe he's only spending an hour a piece on these, but he might go back to them later and build on them more for a portfolio. It's good to make a bunch of quick and diverse designs just to see what happens.
Why Your Mobile Service Sucks, and Will Continue to Suck
HN user Ramit has a really great blog post that answers this exact question: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/turn-failure-to-do...
Great posting. Helped me a lot. Basically means that preparing for interviews is HARD WORK. Get to it !
It's generally understood that refusing to do business with someone for political reasons, unless the person's politics involve genocide or something, is against the social contract. Not illegal, but generally not approved of by anyone (unless you have the whole US media playing the mccarthy card against the person, apparently).