skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing it's because those letter combinations are actually sounds in German, but not in any other languages (that I know of).
Programming Language Comparison By Code
What are good general language comparison sites that use code samples? I'm not interested in any matrix type of comparisons (wiki or enterprise chart like).

I found

- http://langref.org/ - small practical snippets in popular languages (good but limited)

- http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks - extensive set or problems, sparse solutions in more esoteric languages

- http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/s.html - A single program in over 1300 languages

- http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm - hello world collection, not very substancial

What are other good sites? Does it make sense to increase awareness on less known languages on sites like this? Do people read them or just jump to the next hyped thing?
I love you TeX, but this font installation guide is 109 pages long.
Could be. Comcast is easy to hate for whatever reasons as so many people actually have contact with them. Level 3 in my experience is run by complete incompetents and perhaps just as aggressive with lock-in tactics.

Anyone know anything about L3's current strength? Their stock doesn't look good but I have no idea what's going on inside. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this is because L3 wouldn't peer to comcast or wanted to give them some sort of premium tier pricing for no added value or some other mess happened in the past between the two...
Learning assembly isn't really about learning assembly. It teaches the underlying concepts for how modern languages. For instance:

The stack. Many languages use a stack to allow recursion/nested functions. To make this easier, many processors support instructions for pushing/popping operations on the stack, and will reserve a register for holding a pointer to the top of the stack. While learning assembly, the concepts of recursion and tail-recursion begin to make sense. You also learn about reentrance.
fyi: it's CalAcanis.
You have excellent points here. I wouldn't call it not interesting though. One interesting version of this experiment would be to take these same telomerase-deficient mice and see if they live longer than normal mouse while receiving the enzyme they fail to produce on their own. What this experiment shows is that telomerase is essential to the function of normal body tissues, and that its absence causes severe problems. The next step would be to see if their life-spans are lengthened with continued treatment, if they live as long as a normal mouse, or if their lifespans are indeed shortened even with continued treatment.
Adobe on Canadian accessibility ruling: "Don't blame us, blame developers"
A civilization reaching the stage of the computational revolution stands on the event horizon of a Singularity; some cultures call it Ascendancy. What it matters is that once that stage is reached, they may disappear altogether, for reasons unknowable to pre-ascended minds.

Likewise, the leaderboard only contains pre-ascended individuals (Paul Graham has a higher karma, but is not listed). From the listing we may assume the ascendancy limit lies somewhere in the vicinity of 50K karma.
How to Manage Your Startup’s PR at Tech Conferences
Additionally, they do check into information before publishing, so being associated with the "brand" lends some credibility to the information being leaked - much more than some anonymous blog would have.
13 communication and life tips that children teach us
The debt (read: accumulated past deficits) isn't the only, or even main, issue; rather it's the future liabilities that are killers.

For example, California has unfunded pension liabilities of over $500 billion [1]. To put that number in perspective, it's almost seven times greater than all the outstanding voter-approved state general obligation bonds in California.

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/group/siepr/cgi- bin/siepr/?q=/system/files/shared/GoingforBroke_pb.pdf
This is a very interesting article, with technical details and amazing videos. You should submit it.
However in a truly competitive commodity market (and surely bits moving from A to B are a perfect example of a commodity), "charge by cost" and "charge by value" should converge, and when they don't we should be alarmed. If ISP X is making 1% profit on regular bits and then decides to make 10% on premium bits, why couldn't ISP Y come along and undercut them? Because the market is being manipulated through monopolies on infrastructure and lobbying for special treatment.
But how many people really used these things? I consider myself pretty techy and I can count on one hand the number of J2ME apps I've used (heck, I can use my other hand to count the number of times I used them).
The forces involved in double pendulums are very well studied. As other posters have pointed out the robot has sensors on the two pivot points which makes it straight forward to counter the movement (once you have a precise robot, the right force equations and a PHD in physics) once the pendulum enters the required state.

ps I voted you up from you negative state, I don't see a reason for a downvote in your comment.
The only problem with this is that highschool GPA is a better indicator of college performance than standardized tests.
Not much to say really; I've got work to get to. I'm sure there are plenty of others in this thread who are more than willing to discuss the supposed intentions behind this implicitly sexist job posting that has seemed to generate so much nonsensical noise to where the posters themselves changed it, giving the children the pacifier they so desperately wanted.

Edit: children, and men, and women.
I quite often use http://pleac.sf.net when I'm stuck, there's some really good examples here - albeit incomplete in many languages. It was originally a Perl cookbook but has been translated into a number of different languages. It's just a shame nobody seems to be updating it further.
One thing to keep in mind when using Round Robin DNS is that Microsoft is changing address selection with IPv6.
'DNS Round Robin and Destination IP address selection' http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2009/04/17/dns...
'RFC3484' http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3484.txt
$400/month for 200K visits? The pricing seems to be based on how much they'll contribute to your bottom line rather than what the market will bear, what competitors are charging, whether they should focus on growth rather than early profit, etc. This might be a great opportunity for someone to clone the business and charge 25% of their prices, which will still be $250/month for 1 million visits.
The iPhone isn't perfect, either, though. It spits you back out on to the homescreen, which is quite aggravating if you had wanted to install something else. At least with multitasking it no longer loses your spot in the App Store app /too/.
The author has a serious chip on his shoulder. Lots of politicking in this article that distract from the point being made.

Take a look at what the market thinks of the chances for a California default.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/credit-def...

As of a week ago, "The state with the biggest budget problems, California, is seen as slightly less likely to default than Spain but slightly more so than Italy."

Note that Spain is a total mess with an unemployment rate around 20%.

It's hard to default when your can print your own currency. I think the California bond holders will never take a haircut. The US will just print more dollars.
Not for everyone. My options are Comcast, or dial-up.
German is the mother tongue of beat.
Simple Approach for Better Execution
You're too busy to say anything, so instead 70 words to try to tout your supposed superiority over the people you disagree with.
If Wikileak posts are deleted by moderators on HN because of bias, this piece should be deleted too.
Startmate applications close very soon (Australian seed stage fund)
California %2 is agriculture. Texas is 0.8.
In defence of WikiLeaks
That's a good point and when I was reading the article I actually predicted that the "Learn More" button would win because it was the least committal but I never drew the connection between that and volunteer signups.

A few theories:

1) Maybe the feeling of not committing by pressing the button made people more comfortable signing up to be a volunteer, figuring that it probably wouldn't be too much of a commitment

2) Maybe the content on the Learn More page was just so good that the only thing that really mattered was getting more people onto that page and they would be comfortable

3) Perhaps the type of person more likely to click after seeing the picture of the family (Stay at home moms perhaps) was more likely to have time/desire to volunteer.

As I think about it, assuming that one of these ideas is right which is probably not the case, I would guess that it's #3. I don't know the demographics of the people who volunteered but around me it seems like it would be the moms who go to the site, and they would probably be more likely to be skewed toward clicking with the family and non-committal button, while also being more likely to have the time to volunteer.

Disclaimer: This is pure, assumption based, uninformed speculation of the worst kind.
April 11, 1954 was most boring day in history
I meant to post the transcript of my chat session with support on that blog post, but I was in a hurry.

I also got the sense that they were slammed. I felt guilty that by contacting support, I moved to the top of the queue.
This isn't regular code. This is code for the groovy runtime.
Cool idea, I like the fact you can embed data right on the page.
So what you're saying is: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?

I've heard that before...
The range is actually pretty big. You'd have to send out thousands of emails which may be a task in itself to get by the spam filters.
This was the most striking part of the article.

"The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term, continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019
Amazon plans global expansion
I don't think that's entirely true.

Microsoft profited from conditions that were available at the time Microsoft was conceived.

It seems to me that the business model that Microsoft was founded on, involved using it's ubiquity to create of new markets via proprietary software products. Proprietary software requires a closed source model, and (if sold) also involves enforcing artificial scarcity.

Operating a software company in this way, is entirely compatible with a business model that involves creating monopolies and killing competition - especially when a company's as ubiquitous as Microsoft was(/is).

I think government intervention played a part in showing that there's a line of acceptability (that MS crossed) - and the part it played shouldn't be downplayed.

--

Cut to the present day, and the conditions have continued evolving to a point where Microsoft's business model isn't as viable anymore. I don't think anyone specifically chose to change the rules.

Logic and necessity have forced a cultural change, which has helped more people to rethink how software is sold - selling software as IP isn't sustainable; economics has evolved and new markets, ecosystems and concepts are creating conditions which leave Microsoft out of its depth.
Here's your rudiment/instrument notation

zk = suspended cymbal

bschk = snare

pv = brush

bk = bass

tk = flam1

vk = roll tap

kt = flam2

kttp = flam tap

krp = hi hat tap

pv = short roll

th = better hi hat

thp, ds = instant rimshot.
Maybe it was a good system, maybe it was bad. However, the sentence

"Some people still moan that this system was given up, and there are occasional discussion about re-introducing it." lost all meaning when it was used with regards to the Trabi.
Speculation, yes, but food for thought.
Social media is making us more social
Sigh, humans are OK. It all depends on the spicing.

But seriously... As an old cynic and ex-misanthrope I should say that I have changed position.

>>Whenever I find myself riffing about bad systems and the humans behind them, I try to think about them as people.

Most of human behavior is culturally programmed. If you read about e.g. Scandinavian history before 1500 AD, Afghanistan(!) looks peaceful. Compare that with the present world.

Democracies implement realpolitik and lie about it. But internally, they are quite nice to voters. Few in democracies are violent and actively, well, "evil". See "democratic peace theory".

The whole world is becoming democratic, because that is the only thing that works (except getting free money from oil).

You need to accept that humans aren't perfect, but with the right environment they are OK. (The old misanthrope in me still mutters about spices.)

Enough with teenage angst. It becomes boring after 30.
This looks like an awesome offer, too bad I still have a year and a half of school left. Interested in an intern? :-)
Texas has a two-year budget cycle, and the $25 billion deficit figure that's been batted around the internet is speculative since the official numbers won't be known until January.
The stacking problem could be trivially solved by adding a small explosive charge that ejects your bike sideways when needed.
Really? That's actually somewhat surprising to me. Still, I don't really think of Texas as a farm state either. I'm thinking more along the lines of the Midwestern states like Kansas or Nebraska.
Being President is a damn tough job. I would stammer and say idiotic things all the time if I had to deal with that stress. Presidents always seem to age twice as fast as normal people.
"Recently Facebook showed its power by killing Lamebook.com." Last time I checked, i.e. 16 seconds ago, http://lamebook.com is still alive and well.
I would've said Jawas, but they've already got it hard enough...what with the Sand People problem and all.
Wind farms killing thousands of bats every year
An incredibly huge one. If they've found microbal life reasonably close by, then atleast on a personal level, I'd think the possibility of intelligent extraterrestial life can be taken MUCH more seriously.

That said, I'd think it'll be much less spectacular, possibly yet another condition added to the pre-requisites required for life.
It also works in Italian and Spanish, and sorta works in French -- I'm sure it has to do with the phonemes in each language and how the languages are implemented in the text-to-speech algorithm.
I agree. At least in the US, I have long viewed traditional media as nothing more than public relations divisions of the various political parties. Face it - when you're not doing your job, someone's gonna step in and do it for you.

Notice too that while this traditional media decries the leaked cables, they can't help but spend time telling us exactly what's in them.
And they can easily measure the outrage from their customers when they stop routing any traffic to or from Level 3.
Involuntary transparency can have its good aspects, but those might be offset by "unilateral disarmament" - if WikiLeaks doesn't do the same to the confidential information of, say, Chinese and/or Indian companies, then U.S. and European companies could well be at a competitive disadvantage.
The connection the article draws with Zuckerberg's views on privacy (basically, "get used to not having it") is interesting. Though the article doesn't mention it, it also seems to be a similar mentality to Eric Schmidt's comment that "if you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".

Not sure what I think about that trend overall, but if the future is going to be one of "involuntary transparency", it does seem like it should apply to corporations and governments too, not just individuals.
yep, looks like real fun. Lawyers getting to taste their own sh!t.
No worries. It's a weird pseudo-LGPL situation. I hope I didn't sound like a smug asshole. I thought the same thing and double-checked, that's all.
What's really sad about this is unlike birds which die from direct strikes on the blades, bats die often just from flying through the negative pressure between the blades (their lungs explode).

I just saw a thermal video of this on PBS and it shows the bats plummeting to the ground as they approach the windmill.
Listen doesn't work in Safari 5.0.3?
For the record, "Tim" and "Suhail" are Mixpanel's founders, not just customer support people.
Try the techno-sound: Tischdecke! (Works in real life, haven't tried it on Google translate, yet. And means `table cloth'.)
This is what comments were made for!

I'm sure it's legitimate, but you'd have to be insane to look at that code and not question why it exists.
How many internet backbone providers are also content delivery networks (other than Google)?
Well, you need to sort by occurrences, so you have to work with the whole list in this particular case. I also don't think that having two sections is a particularly big deal, since semantically you're working with two separate things too (the list of people+ages, and the aggregated list of names+a count). If you wanted to do something else too (say, list the names as well) then having an intermediate form can come in handy.

Also, I'm pretty sure that writing a macro counts as 'changing the language', although that line's a bit blurred when you're talking about lisps ;) ;)
Just wondering, but are any HN readers in non-university education? Sometimes these articles runs a risk of outsiders looking in without the essential industry experience needed to make truly sound judgements and suggestions. Its easy to point fingers and propose ideal solutions when you aren't in the classroom on a daily basis. My wife is in early childhood ed, my sister-in-law in elementary, and my mother-in-law in middle school and I still "don't get it" in the same way as they do.

Each of them admits that things are critically wrong with the system, and have proposed solutions to ones that I've read on HN. But, they know it's simply never as easy as many journalists propose. You can't unshift our education system's paradigm without considerable labor.
Nokia E72 Unlocked Phone GPS and Free Voice Navigation -- U.S. Version Warranty
I'm really hoping to officially hear we're not alone :)
> It's also more likely to impose responsibility in such cloaked goings-on, as the actions may be revealed later.

Call me a cynic, but I think that what will happen in the short term is that people (US diplomats in this case) will continue to behave in the exact same way, only now they won't trust the diplomatic 'cable' system to communicate and will temporarily revert to more old school practices (person to person or encrypted voice communications).
On the peering front, interesting case study is MWeb, an ISP in South Africa. They have the opposite problem in that they recently refused to continue to pay other ISP's in the country for the right to peer with them. So all local traffic to and from their network is routed internationally since they have their own international links.

http://bit.ly/b8Bslu

Framing the argument as a peering dispute is an interesting strategy. But I think the differentiator is that if peering is not allowed, there is no alternative route to the customer. Whereas if it were a traditional peering dispute, the quality of the service would degrade with longer routes rather than be terminated altogether.
The University of Washington, Dropping Out, Waste of Time, Confusion, Etc.
Netflix Partner Says Comcast ‘Toll’ Threatens Online Video Delivery
WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal in Early 2011
It said the word but I broke down your suggestion far enough that Th actually gives you a much better hi hat sound. Thanks!
So what does this mean practically? How does she use it? Does she basically let them retake the tests? What does it mean "defining" tests in terms of standards? How is that different exactly? Who's standards?
Apple's Knowledge Navigator [1987]
The full-article version of this is currently on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952037
There is never anything wrong in a word. Only in the intent.

I have no horse in this race at all. But to suggest (as the above quote suggests to me - I hope I'm misreading!) that words have no power, or choice of words doesn't matter, is naive in the extreme.
I'm not sure I agree that they have a right to exist, hence to have a business model. A good inspiration (on a smaller scale) can be the ACL and the recent open access journals (JMLR, JAIR, etc), that are mainly university-sponsored or university-consorcium-sponsored, have very low operation costs (not having to send all that spam and publish empty magazines like communications was for a long time certainly helps), and volunteer-run (which is not a problem in academia if you attach some prestige to running things).

Maybe a subscription model that gives discounts to events for those who pay for the annual membership, with something like discounted book deals and informational emails sent periodically.
>akin to what happened to Lehman Brothers

there is also, more probable for a state, scenario of AIG/etc... - federal government stepping in.
yo i gotta hear that one more time man: http://translate.google.com/#de|de|zwkkzwkkzwkkzwkk.%20pv%20...
Just make sure Will Smith is on alert.
There are many objective studies that show that individuals with their own specific trading/investing strategies can beat the street. But that's not really the point.

The point is that AAPL is now only second to XOM in terms of market cap, and is not exactly a tiny blip on the radar. It is a stock that is being watched by literally millions. If these "professional" analysts have so many resources at their disposal, have the inside track on confidential information and are operating at such an uneven playing field as the parent postulates, then why would they consistently be beaten by the "hobbyists"?
Unless there's an advantage in being seen as open. ("If your European company would have done something bad, we would have heard of it. We haven't (or have heard only a mild relevation.) So you must be pretty good guys!")
Agreed.

Though, you have to remember that the method used to determine eligibility for clearance relies heavily on past criminal activities, past drug use and past/current financial activities. All of which should be very minimal for an 18 year old fresh out of boot.
Daily Mail, leading the UK in quality coverage.
The article appears in Forbes. QED
According to his bio on scvngr - "Seth Priebatsch was born in Boston, MA at the age of 7." (http://www.scvngr.com/about/team)

How can you hold someone to conventional standards when they're born at the age of 7?! He's got a lot of catching up to do.
Not really. At least not on a naive level. None of "pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk" occurs in any German word.
As long as it is not Cthulhu presenting a paper on its dark matter(?) based biology! :-)

Could there be some analysis of Mars rover data? Or of Mars meteorites?

Telescopes aren't good enough yet to get absorption spectra for relatively complex molecules in atmospheres?
Comcast responds, seeming to claim that Level 3 wants CDN peering with a tier-1 peering agreement:

http://blog.comcast.com/2010/11/comcast-comments-on-level-3....