skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every statement you made was a complete misunderstanding of my statement. Including the sarcasm, I was being genuine in my praise.

Briefly, the random walk factor is less of an issue for speculative stocks because they either make it as a business, or don't. That's not a random walk. And I really don't understand why you're so miffed.
92% in general would actually be really good for word sense disambiguation, but..."Apple" is a really easy choice. I'd like to see how he does with a trickier word like "right" (as in civil, vs. not wrong, vs. not left).
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Slaughterhouse right to the store was the norm many many years ago. There is nothing bad about killing an animal, if it's for eating. Humans need meat to survive. For a lot of people vegetarian style works, but not for everyone.
Boeing, IBM create real-time aviation analysis system
Does Chrome have a good adblock plugin or firebug equiv yet?
You're probably lifting too much weight, or leaving the gym too early. I know this isn't helpful, but you should be exhausted once you leave the gym.
I use both but Chrome is certainly my primary browser. On any clean install of Ubuntu I immediately download and install Chrome while treating the default OS browser, Firefox, with a status of second class citizen.

This was precisely how it was for me years ago on Windows but with Firefox in the Chrome role and the default OS browser, IE, in the now Firefox role.
CSS3 transitions are virtually indistinguishable from native animations and transitions, when applicable (i.e. CSS3 obviously can't be used for some things, but is a 1:1 replacement for things like page transitions).
Posting because I had zero context and had to research:

- BNR builds software for mobile / desktop via http://www.bignerdranch.com/software/

- BNR has become "known around the globe for the quality of the experience we produce", except to me [edit - read RunJake's comment]

- Since 2001 BNR has been running trainings for other programmers and writing well accepted texts on software dev.

- They want to build an actual location, a la 37signals, to host their trainings and develop a "monastery for learning".

- They already secured a loan with which they purchased 13 acres near Fairburn, GA in two transactions.

- They need ~$4,900,000 to build the facility and cover debt, and SBA will lend them 35% of the project at just over 4% interest.
It does sound a bit like Kroger charging Kraft to carry their cheese in the stores.. although there have been arrangements like that to improve product placement on shelves (I think).

These companies are swapping services. They both benefit from that. If one company thinks they have the power to do so, they can also extract additional payment. It's just a matter of the details on who has that power. Level3 can choose to pay transit providers (which Comcast can underbid), or they can cut off the Netflix streams (which likely pisses off Netflix quite a bit, and certainly cuts their own revenue). I suspect Comcast wins here unless the PR kerfuffle gambit works.
The main advantage here is that it should be easier to learn and use. The disadvantage is that the simplicity comes with a price -- it isn't as customizable as the automake. But the intention isn't to replace a system like that, just make it easier for projects to get up and running quickly.

Do you use automake for all of your projects or just the larger scale ones?
The statistics from Techcrunch match the browser stats from my blog pretty well, except that Safari has a slighter larger percentage, because many visitors come to my blog for an iPhone app programming tutorial I wrote a while back.

However, the stats from Techcrunch and my blog are both skewed relative to the rest of the internet. The people visiting such sites are more likely to be running Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. Other non tech sites will see a much higher percentage of IE users.
Actually, people still use Firefox. And most probably, they will continue. And its quite good (at least for me).
Most experiments (usually regarding density of the universe, but also some looking at light from really far pulsars) points to the universe being flat. A flat universe also allows for the total energy of the universe to be zero, which is nice from a physicists standpoint, since then the big bang still obeys conservation of energy.
I've seen some valiant attempts at procrastination, but boy--this really takes the cake. Cross-examining engineering dialogue diagnosing fictional technology? Really?
Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS
What's your biggest frustration, fear, or challenge?
I want to help HNers, but first I'd like to know what common challenges we have.

What is your biggest challenge in life/business right now?
On the contrary: the software is called "hudson", and the license explicitly grants the right to deal in the software without restriction. Those rights include the rights to distribute and publish, but "including" doesnt mean "only". In any case, how would one publish this software without using the name "hudson"? Does this license imply that prior to publishing the software we have to replace every instane of the letters h u d s o n with something else? That would not be "without restriction".

There are several licenses written that say "you may not use our name to promote your version of the software" or something like that. MIT is not one of them.

Oracle is welcome to fork it and give it a tougher license. Dont expect it will see many commits after that tho.
funny how for years all that [USA being an authoritarian conspiracy] was even promoted as the "correct" action in sci action movies.

how many times the hero agrees not to disclose some alien invasion or something as to not create mass panic and help the government act in the dark and so saves the day?
Why not? We software types scoff at VB-GUIs-to-track-IPs, after all.
Ask HN: Sharing all my startup ideas
What do you think the best outlet/website to share startup ideas and projects is?

I come up with some many ideas for startup companies that I would love to get feedback on. As Seth Godin says, your first idea will suck. You need to have it thrashed, criticized, etc. by others before it turns into something good.

But my friends are tired of me spamming them with ideas, and I don't want to turn HN into "Sean's brain farts"
Great idea, congratulations on finishing!
Brilliant, simple idea. Great work!
"While the dot operator's base form should be a prefixed s-expression like all the others, it may be awkward to use in practice"

The solution isn't special syntax, it's macros. Check out Parenscript's chain:

http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/reference.html#ch...

"For blocks we use a wrapper function rather than the curly brace block so that lexical scoping for variables can be ensured."

In most cases you can generate more efficient code by doing rudimentary control flow analysis. Look at how RETURN-FROM is implemented in the current Parenscript repository version.

Also, speaking of lexical scoping don't forget that in JS loop variables only get a single binding. Scheme2JS uses a neat trick with with to implement the proper (per-iteration) binding (see this paper: http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/scheme2js/files/icfp2006.pdf). It's the only useful use of with I've ever encountered.

"The ternary operator"

Don't. The #1 goal of any new Lisp to JS translator should be to eliminate the statement/expression dichotomy.

"We could build a simple unhygienic macro system using the traditional quote ('), quasiquote (`), unquote (,) and unquote-splicing (,@) operators, as well as rest parameters (&)."

Take it one step further and make quasiquoting be able to build arrays at runtime. This is something that Daniel Gackle (gruseom) suggested for Parenscript and I need to implement. I actually want to take it a step further still and have a matching system like fare-matcher (http://www.cliki.net/fare-matcher) based around quasi-quoting. If you write all your code this way, you can go a long way towards eliminating dependence on the specific data structures you use for representing s-expressions. Right now I suspect you can go all the way, and that it's a viable strategy for making Parenscript self-hosting without adding runtime support for car/cdr to JavaScript.

Speaking of runtime libraries, I think it's an implicit assumption you made already, but if you want to be like Coffeescript or Parenscript, you obviously need to avoid those.
I saw some online during a Woot-off, between LED toenail clippers and the 'bag of crap'.
Instead of sharing all, just execute one. You will learn enough to judge them on your own and you will learn that ideas don't matter - execution does.
In both of those cases the government was very much listening to the electorate, and giving them exactly what they wanted even if they did not ask for it or even refused it by name.

People wanted the government to fix the banking crisis, and they did in the most expedient way, even if the proper medicine was so foul-tasting as to inspire popular revolt. People begged for more security theater to prevent another underwear bomber, and the government threw money at the only potential solution to that attack vector and got it implemented just in time for the next holiday season.
I think Gates was the only good hire of the Bush administration.
Working in a small company, you'll have an opportunity to do more if you take the initiative. Some days you might be doing things outside of your job maybe you have to deal with a client, or have to be part of a sales presentation, or take part in high level meetings.

Of course you also have to be extra careful not to get comfortable since all companies (especially smaller/older companies) can get comfortable with their employees. There may be dinosaurs who just aren't very good at what they're supposed to be doing. Make sure to not limit your knowledge because of them or be hindered by them.
Perfect counterexample: Battlestar Galactica (the newer one).

Bullets and nukes for weapons, CDC deep within the hull of the ship, damage control stations throughout the ship, sound-powered emergency telephones that do not require a power source (similar to the ones still in use in the Navy), pressure bulkheads, non-networked computers, emergency jump coordinates coordinated between ships BEFORE emergencies, etc.
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More background:

Aaron is legendary in the NeXT and Apple Cocoa world. He writes the bible for Cocoa programming and has trained many, many Cocoa programmers, including the ones at Apple.
european citizens...people...people...them...innocent people...them

Why are you using plurals? Where did the cables discuss anyone fitting this description other than Khaled el-Masri?
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I've never really understood why it matters. I appreciate accuracy in a movie or show based on something very closely tied to technology (for example, in a movie titled "Hackers" I'd expect at least a little accuracy on the subject), but Star Trek is obviously not a technical show. It's about the people.
Chrome has a Firebug equilvalent baked in: Developer Tools
http://www.chromium.org/devtools

And an AdBlock extension (though I don't use it): https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepj...
Point well taken. Thanks!
To be fair the Galactica is supposed to be a warship, while IIRC the Enterprise is basically a science vessel with a couple self defense capabilities.
In fact, when the robotic protagonists, the Cylons, infect the Battlestars with viruses, Galactica stays live because the commander did NOT want his ship computerized. Each system lives on its own, and only meatspace in the CDC can control other systems.

This isn't a spoiler as it is discussed in the miniseries and S01ep01. Am watching it now, and on S03ep15, so please, no spoilers.
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Could work. Okcupid actually offers this feature.

On the other hand if the person is picky enough, they'll just be rejecting everyone they see and give up on the site after a few days.
Well, the things I have contributed to over the years have had their own source control systems.
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I have worked at both small and large. Eventually, I co-founded a company that was mildly successful. Small companies are better place to learn lots of skills, take risks, and be noticed. Large companies are rather hard to do anything with scope outside your group, and sometimes tasks like getting hardware seem impossible in a timely manner.

My opinion, go small, then when you are a bit older try a larger company. Try both and see for yourself. GL.
Perhaps the Taliban deserves the presumption of innocence like anyone else, but it's a concern that deserves better than that kind of dismissiveness.

They've said they intend to hunt down and punish informants named in the Wikileaks docs, and they have a long enough history of brutality towards informants (as you'd expect of any side in a military conflict) that it's only prudent to take them seriously.

But sure, let's all sit behind the safety of our computer screen in our (relatively) free and democratic society, and scoff at the possibility that this might make the struggle yet more difficult for people fighting for a chance at freedom and democracy in their own land.
I tried Chrome (well Chromium) a few months back. I found that apart from startup and (very) Javascript heavy sites most pages actually render slower in Chromium as compared to Firefox (3.5 and 3.6).
Noscript functionality is built in. It's not quite as full featured but it works well enough for me.

Wrench Menu -> Preferences -> Under the Hood -> Content Settings -> JavaScript
Oddly enough, I decided earlier today to move back to Firefox as my go-to browser after using Chrome for about a year. Vimperator is just too good.
Both Chrome and Safari come with Web Inspector built in - right click anywhere on the page and choose "inspect element". It's still a bit lacking in some areas, but good enough in most cases and there are things it is better at than FB.
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Not a fan of Vimium? https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgn...
...and sometimes tasks like getting hardware seem impossible in a timely manner.

This is a good point. There's a lot of red tape at big companies and sometimes doing the simplest things (e.g. setting up an Apache server) can be made into maddeningly bureaucratic operations (fill out the support ticket -> X -> Y...)
I'm a fan of Chrome, but let's remember the demographic here before we get out of hand:

Techcrunch, and similar websites and blogs, cater to the technologically savvy elite. The people visiting websites like Techcrunch are very much in tune with the latest software and the latest tech trends and movements.

Websites that do not cater to this demographic paint a very different story, ie. Wikimedia in October 2010:

IE - 44.72%;
Firefox - 29.67%;
Chrome - 9.71%;
Safari - 5.57%;
Opera - 3.48%;
Mobile Browser - 4.70%;

Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Wikimedia...

On a website visited by a much wider swath of the Internet citizenry, IE still dominates. Hopefully, and I believe quite likely, Firefox and Chrome will become the definitive standard for sites like this in the not-so-distant future.
This is the reason why I don't use Chrome myself. I want the tabs where they make sense from a design perspective next to the web page itself. The tab should be attached to the page itself. I don't want the URL bar in the way.
I think your parents is right on this, either Google/Facebook are great places to start off your career, not to mention it's a good place to learn how they iterate, how they go about their product development, especially in such a large (and yet fairly agile) company. Think of it as a learning pad.

Also, there's nothing stopping you from working on your idea right now. Once your idea turns profitable, you can explore the other possibilities; hiring, working on it full time, etc.
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Chrome did to Firefox what Firefox originally did to Netscape. I feel that Mozilla are missing what made Firefox a success originally - keeping it light, clean, extensible and default feature that block the crud on the web.

Chrome on Windows and Mac is simply a lot faster and feels lighter than Firefox. I have managed to switch almost all of my non-tech friends from Firefox or IE to Chrome - and they have gone on to refer their non-tech friends to Chrome.

The impression that I get from non-tech people is that after installing it the immediate reaction is that Chrome is a lot cleaner and faster. I expect based on my anecdotal evidence that we will see the Chrome market share rise amongst non-tech users in the next 6-12 months.
The problem is that there are so many different areas that such a resource would have cover, likely it would be quite hard to navigate. The difficulty is that someone learning and someone experienced creating/adding to the site see things differently and would look in different areas. For example, I haven't done linear algebra in years but am currently relearning it since I'm working on an extremely complicated problem that requires some very advanced knowledge. With Google, Wikipedia, and Stackoverflow I can find almost everything, it's just a matter of finding the correct terminology so I know where to look and how to read the documentation.

I've taken a look at w3school and it gives a pretty good overview, enough so that afterwords someone should be able to find what they need (I am biased since I already know a few languages). I remember I first expanded beyond C using codemonkey, though I don't know if they still exist or what state their tutorials are in.
Look at the conclusion of the piece. He agrees: it should be about the stories. His beef is with the writers lazily resorting to retarded engineering time after time.
A lot of it's wrong too.

Instead of minimizing excess reactivity, they seem to be doing everything in their power to increase it. Evidence of the high excess reactivity of a warp core can be found every time one of 'em blows up. For example, in "Generations", they knew the reactor was going to blow five minutes before it actually did, and they couldn't do anything but evacuate. In "Disaster", we saw a similar scenario; the reactor was counting down to doomsday throughout the entire second half of the episode. The only way they could stop these catastrophes was to eject the entire warp core or restore the containment field. You would think that they could simply shut off the flow of antimatter into the chamber (or at the very least, redirect it out into space), but it appears that even if they do so, the warp core contains enough unreacted fuel at any time to destroy the entire ship. It's a textbook example of extreme excess reactivity.

This is completely ignorant. Given that there's no such thing as an antimatter reactor, we have no idea how one works. Applying design principles from some trivial mechanical system to a fictional science fiction super-reactor just doesn't make sense.
"How are you supposed to create drama and tension if the
technology never fails? My answer is that ... you need look
no further than ... numerous Japanese animé series to see
the proof."

It's probably unfair, but this part of the conclusion just jumped out at me as a hilariously stereotypical "Internet Argument". It's almost like a godwin for Sci-Fi.
Oh please. This is a completely specious argument. (Like Glen Beck saying that national health care necessarily leads to fascism).

Of course some things need to be secret for practical reasons. The problem here would be secret nuclear weapons (Israel) not the codes that protect them from misuse.
Nice! I see some mootools? Is that a standard feature or something specially awesome?

I really like their site, they put a lot of effort in it and it shows. Good work!
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One of the comments made me laugh:

"Dear Aaron, If I had it, I’d give it to you! Mom"
I used Vimium while on Chrome, but Vimperator seems to more completely replace default browser behaviors. I also like the ability to add plugins and keep a .vimperatorrc.
Has anyone ever created a robust Unicode string API that treats graphemes as indivisible units? I keep seeing libraries that force you to directly handle codepoints, making it your problem to be aware of which characters are combining and have to be kept together (which almost nobody has done their homework on) so as not to corrupt the text.
Just FYI, Chrome drains your laptop battery, on Linux at least - just play with powertop and see for yourself. Not sure why it causes so many CPU wakeups, but I get about 30 minutes less 3:30 vs 4hr if I'm surfing in Chrome vs Firefox.
Well, personally I don't think that any of the other fields are worth capturing until you have started building a relationship with the user... then, it depends on what sort of information you want to send them. What job they have can be very useful (for example, if you're operating within the construction niche and your message to project managers is very different from your message to architects), but those are all things you grab in the form after the one that grabs email...

I think which elements are essential really depends on your site and what you're trying to communicate.
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This has turned in to a strange discussion :|
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If you need to access a utf-8 string indexed by character rather than byte you are probably doing something wrong.
Chrome's proxy plug-ins still suck. Last time I checked, Chrome still leaks DNS requests.

Adblock is also gimped because of the browser API, making it impossible to block ads before they load, slowing your internet connection and sometimes making ads flash momentarily before disappearing.
Perhaps this stems from the fact that few writers also have an engineering background, and as such don't look at the plots they assemble the same way we might?
What did you expect? As a military state, the federation grew out of a fascist background that saw the final official marriage of technology behemoths and the military. Some of the finest minds went down in political prisons or in police actions. sadly, the morons who built the enterprise were all that was left ...
What got me hooked on chrome was the unified address bar that just worked, and tabs on top (and the close button stays in the right place when you close half a dozen tabs), basically it just took up less space, firefox feels like IE with way too much clutter and a prompt to ask you if you really meant to do whatever, yes I really want my browser to close, update etc.

Chrome just does whatever it feels like and I'm ok with that as it makes decent choices. It's really not the end of the world if a dozen tabs close, especially if you can just reopen them with a click.

The difference between chrome and firefox is usability. I always feel like I'm fighting firefox to do what I want.