skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguing between 3 or 4 clicks doesn't change anything.

You're wrong. And besides, the argument isn't between 3 or 4 clicks. It should be no more than 2, and preferably one.

There are a lot of problems with beginners and lisp, but
they're far from how to get to the first implementation.
As a newbee myself, googling for lisp environments was
damn easy and instructive: i knew within 20 minutes that
I should use linux, and if i really wanted windows (as I
did at first) there was only one choice.

You're still wrong. Not every newbie even knows what to google for, and even if they did, it shouldn't take them 20 minutes of web searching to figure out what they should download. And even that didn't lead you to the right place - there is more than one option for Windows (cusp, allegro, lispworks, and clisp for starters - that's not even counting scheme stuff), Linux isn't the only way, and SBCL isn't the only thing going on Linux. But a newbie either

a) has no way to figure all that out in a reasonably short amount of time
b) isn't going to try

And beyond that, you're still missing the point: he shouldn't have to.

Once you're concerned with learning emacs and slime and customizing your environment and installing weblocks and getting asdf and asdf-install to work, you're already committed. Difficulty doesn't matter nearly as much by that point. Being able to easily download and dick around in the REPL is the number one hurdle that keeps people from trying Lisp.

The rest of the post I agree with, and I don't argue that there are hurdles beyond the first one that are bigger and harder to conquer, but that's irrelevant if newbies aren't willing to jump the first one.
OK so it is not tech related but so amazing I thought it was worth a mention.
I use "Stuff To Do" ( http://stufftodo.dedasys.com ) for that as well. I put the random ideas at the bottom of the list, and weed out lame ones every once in a while.
it's not the price i'm worried about... it's more like what if this guy gets run over by a truck one day? can anyone else make fixes/enhancements to the code? Do I have to keep paying for future updates? (I didn't read the license...)

the more i think about it the more I regret posting this... not to mention for most ppl on this site, they will want the $50-255 dollar license and not the $3 version
Ironically for me, reading your essays is often how I avoid doing real work. I find myself avoiding work by reading an essay on how not to avoid work. Ha!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204593
would love to use this, alas we are frozen on prototype 1.1.5 at the moment...
Official blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204593
The reason it's not already out there as open source is because Google wants to work closely with manufacturers in order to release something that people like, rather than have some cheapo manufacturer download an early version of the source and run with it, embarrassing everyone, and dimming the prospects for Android's future.
Here is a great article on 99designs at Graphic Push.

http://www.graphicpush.com/99designs-bullshit-20
It's still not a one-click, but I have written install guides thorough enough to work on the first try for CLisp and SBCL:

http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-clisp-e...

http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/installing-sbcl-em...

It takes about 15 minutes and includes installing Emacs and SLIME, plus a super basic Emacs tutorial enough to open and save files.
Wisps of Data
I can't see the uses for such a limited stencil set though. Am I missing something?
CL Hyperspec: http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index.html

Download a copy from LispWorks: ftp://ftp.lispworks.com/pub/software_tools/reference/HyperSpec-7-0.tar.gz
Despite the drawbacks in MB, the poll results show an interesting and compelling deviation from expected (i.e. average) results.
RailsConf 2008 - Friday Morning Summary
In what way does this hurt blog owners?
I'm out of invites :(
you can overwrite people's keyphrases, and when you hit "back" to the main page the captcha thing isn't visible.

also captchas suck.
I love the picture where they have their bows at the ready. That is truly the poor mans anti-aircraft system. Even better would be a new set of pictures showing that they actually brought down the plane, how would you explain that one to the boss?
Is it really acceptable to contract "you" and "are" in that sentence?
I have 20. Give me some emails.
Motive, not method.
Do you want a hiking partner? How fast are you planning on going?
It was pretty easy for me, on my Fedora box:

# yum -y install clisp
What I don't like is the presumption in this article that it would be best if these "uncontacted" people stayed that way. It's just as bad as the presumption that our ancestors would have had that we should immediately go in and start giving them trousers and bibles.

Is it really right to deny these people the benefits of our thousands of years of hard-won knowledge, just because we think it's cute to watch them in their body paint?

Also, does this help us in thinking about what more advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might do if they encountered us?
Stunningly true, although the time scale has increased. What we get these days via TV and print is gossip that parades as news. I turn to the web to get actual news and for this I visit websites of the news dailies in important countries.

US news outfits right from the 90s were and are pathetic. TV news is even worse. I don't need a shouting match and opinion shows which report bias as news.

/rant

Sorry for the rant below but yeah, I'm talking to you Faux News!

The BBC seems to be better, at least their anchors don't engage in pretended joviality with each other and their audience. I think the news shows should ask the anchors to stop their banter and read off the teleprompter but for the time when they are interviewing guests. I don't need to know whether you had a burst tyre or had to shovel snow to get to work. Just give me the news and get off of the screen.

/end of rant.
I'll cordially invite you to an Evernote competitor, Luminotes: http://luminotes.com/

Developed by a HN member, too. :)
Mötley Crüe Song Sells More on Xbox Than On iTunes
Why Mike Arrington is popular
That'd be great! I'm planning on spending a few weeks full-time on this (8 hours a day, or more if I can handle it). That should be a minimum of one section a day, but hopefully more, even a whole chapter on some days. It doesn't matter how fast, though, as if either falls behind we can just compare those solutions. Email me at technoguyrob[at]gmail[dot]com.
Am I the only one bummed that there isn't a Mac version of OneNote?
For me too - and, of course, 1984 was just brilliant. I personally enjoy reading this type of stuff; my only point above was just that if anyone's about to complain that this "fear mongering" is getting old they should think twice about the alternative. Alas, it seems people are of the opinion that I should be downmodded for expressing such a thought.
Jobs would be an ENFP.
Techstars Community launched
Well, like the article said, the biggest threat is probably disease introduced that they are not immune to. I'd say that's a good reason to leave them alone until we have at least a plan to go in and protect them w/ vaccinations (if they would even let us give them vaccines - I highly doubt they would understand them; even people today are fear mongering over mercury in vaccines). But then again we're going to run into contact with them eventually, so it might as well be sooner than loggers or land-grabbers go in and kill them all.
Video: Peter -AWK- Weinberger@google
He talks about how sometimes boring the job is.
It is almost like when "stars" sell themselves in commercials. Somewhat pathetic.
Okay, then on that note, what's everyone's Big Five personality test score? There's an online inventory at:

http://www.personalitytest.net/ipip/ipipneo120.htm

Mine is 10 (3-4-4-70-17-57) / 73 (70-61-33-80-74-63) / 43 (52-33-41-35-26-80) / 41 (12-20-53-89-48-28) / 67 (81-50-5-38-87-87) in test order (that's Extraversion/Agreeableness/Conscientiousness/Neuroticism/Openness). Interestingly, that seems like it's about the worst possible personality for an entrepreneur, with super low scores in all the extraversion categories, high cautiousness, high self-consciousness, low self-discipline and adventurousness.
It's not about "we think it's cute to watch them in their body paint." It's about letting them be in their own natural environment, undisturbed by the outside world. From previous history, we know that native peoples aren't usually of being so-called "saved" by those more technologically advanced than them.
At that pace I think I would definitely be holding you back. Maybe I'll try to tackle something a bit less steep, like Mount Fraleigh.

Have you already studied some abstract algebra, or would you mainly be learning it through this project?
Scoble Interviews Twitter Founders Evan Willams and Biz Stone
The orange guy on the left marched right back into his hut, pulled out his OLPC and filed a complaint with the FAA for nuisance planes flying too low, buzzing the village and disturbing the peace, describing the incident as "uncivilized behavior".
I'm an ENTP but I am very close to the borders for E/P
Nah, but now Jacob has told them they need to move the village.
Agreed. Cool concept, but I can't imagine much actual use coming from them.

It's also extremely uncreative and lazy.
But don't we have a moral imperative to share our knowledge? Why is it a law that children must attend school if not to underscore the value of spreading knowledge that we've acquired. The instinct to teach (not to convert, but just to teach) is human. We can't force them to adopt our ways; but shouldn't we show them the alternatives and give them the choice of accepting it or not?
They got two archers and a settler. Not bad. If a country with lots of technology grabbed that tribe, and got lucky, we might find a really cool tech like fusion or Superconductor. I can't believe the spanish explorers missed the goody box way back then.

Edit: If this actually was Civ, those archers could of held off that helicopter, and about a dozen battleships, with no sweat forever.
You can still read through my solutions and point out all my errors if you like, though. ;)

I've already had a couple classes, but I've never felt intimately comfortable with it. With several programming languages, I don't even need the occasional googling, nearly all the libraries (and of course basic syntax) are already in my head. When doing commutative algebra and Noetherian rings, I found myself looking back at ring theory for various properties about rings. Same goes for homological algebra: I had to keep going back to properties of modules. I understand it in more in terms of theorems and facts rather than mathematical intuition and maturity, and my goal is to change that around.
The problem is overloading a tiny 1-dimensional 'grunt' of a feedback mechanism. (Or really, half-a-dimension, when only upvotes are allowed.) It's aggravated by the fact the exact same up-arrow is an approved way to agree with a comment. [1]

My suggestion when this problem has come up previously: adopt a 2-axis feedback mechanism, with up-down meaning promote-demote (give something more/less attention), and right-left meaning agree-disagree. [2] [3]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117196

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126917
INTJ - is this good or bad? I am interested now to find out what everyone else is.
Reccomendations on CDN| High Scalability
I signed up, as I got one of those funky codes.
Who needs sex when you can steal DNA?
Call for Equitable Open Source
Feature request: display poll results as histograms.
People here are so on my wavelength. Sometimes I dabble in writing short sci-fi stories and as soon as I read this I started a near future story where a tribe at risk of extinction from an impending earthquake must be saved without triggering the problems previous people had making first contact. At the same time, an ET civilization is using the same kind of methods and a much more advanced technological level (through methods like DMT elves and seizures), to contact the technology people of the new world order (that is the group preserving the culture at risk of extinction) and teach them enough to get off the planet before it's hit by an asteroid (or whatever).

I think the right way to contact them would be to use mechanical bugs to infiltrate their society, and learn their language and social structure. Then, in the modality that the shaman of the tribe trances in, contact only the shaman, and in their language and their mythological mode of thinking, convey what you need too. Then, teach the shaman 'magic' in the guise of technology that will allow him to convince the tribe and convince him of your power and authenticity. Particularly effective would be to make another tribesman sick with some disease and give the shaman the medication to cure the disease.

Then, let them have as much of their way of life as possible after you did whatever you needed to do to prevent them from dying off like they would of without your help.

You should only make contact in cases where the tribe is at great risk without it.
" We can't force them to adopt our ways; but shouldn't we show them the alternatives and give them the choice of accepting it or not?"

No.

Another installment of short answers to long questions.
Ignite Boston picks up where the dot-com boom left off
Knowledge of an existing patent is only 1 factor of 9 when determining whether to award treble damages. All 9 factors are:

1. whether copying was deliberate

2. whether upon notice infringer did good faith investigation (upon notice, did you see if you really were infringing)

3. infringer's behavior as a party to the litigation (did your lawyers place nice in pleadings and motions)

4. infringer's size and financial condition (big guy vs. little guy?)

5. closeness of the case (if the case could go either way, no treble damages)

6. duration of infringer's conduct

7. remedial action by the infringer (when notified of infringement, did you develop a non-infringing work around)

8. infringer's motivation for harm

9. whether infringer attempted to conceal misconduct

The court weighs all of these to determine whether to enforce treble damages. They are not weighed equally, and you don't have to fail a certain number.

You have 2 ways you can go. First, you can just build the idea and see what happens. Don't research whether you are infringing, and just take it as you are working in the same area as someone else.

Or you can read the actual patent and see what is claimed. Engineer around that, and around extensions of that patent that a person of ordinary skill in the art would consider obvious.
Did you really have to submit this four times?
Drupal's lack of object orientation, confusing user-interface and administration, weird nomenclature, and the fact that it really is (despite what their community may tell you) a content management system makes it a non-starter for me. If you're into PHP, try something like Symfony or Cake.
Government By Lawyers, For Lawyers
Doesn't have as many features, but...

http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/demo/
Collective intelligence requires more than voting
D&F was my sophomore-year college algebra textbook so all I can say is, good luck!

It gets very hard very quick and some of the questions are intentionally above virtually everyone's head.
Maybe it's me but does Techcrunch reporting on Scoble interviewing twitter seem like a cosmic circle jerk? A strange loop, or Escher stair like feedback loop of self amplifying and sustaining noise?
No, not at all blunt, this is exactly what I'm looking for.
The unique selling proposition is that I plan on shifting this idea to the mobile market, since typing long URLs on a numpad is complete torture, and am just fleshing out the idea for now as a proof of concept.

Thanks for the background information, it's very helpful. Any good suggestions for a short, succinct domain name that's to the point?
As far as I know, you don't have to pay anything to a patentholder as long as he doesn't contact you! Until then you are free to use as many patents as you like.

But you better ask your lawyer on this topic.
They sure are gonna try. Ballmer has to be getting kicked out in the next year, right? Please. I want a job where I could put out a video game system where they forgot to do heat management, and to test it, at a cost of 1 billion dollars, a zune that mostly serves as a punchline and to make the iPhone stand out, and vista, and then to mess up this yahoo deal, and release this desparate bribery scheme, and still be in charge.

Actually, I don't want that job. That would be a hollow, meaningless life in a swamp of mediocrity.
Yeah, the idea is for people who want an immutable keyphrase to contact me for some sort of contract where they ask for a specified amount of time for the keyphrase to stay constant for some reasonable sum of money.
I know, I hate captchas myself, but I don't want spammers to hammer the server with porn sites or anything like that.
The screenshot idea is genius, I'm going to try that.
Simple is good, I'll definitely take that into account.
Motley Crue sucks.

Xbox sucks.

Therefore

Headline

QED.
The Boston Globe has started including something similar to that in its print newspaper: they have a 2D scatterplot under the Letters to the Editor where the y-axis is the number of letters on each topic and the x-axis is whether the letters were in favor or opposed. It's a nifty at-a-glance visualization.
tinyurl doesn't have a captcha.

neither does comments or account creation on YC.
Cool, you're from the University of Chicago. What (math) field was your thesis in?
Interesting just how different it is from this site.

An invite code, not sure if more people can use it:

Invitation Code: friends3253
Google is basically making itself the #1 result in any revenue-generating search, so that it can make all the money with its own affiliate links. It will be interesting to see how far they can push this behavior before they lose all the goodwill they have built up with users.

I think somebody like Ask.com or a new player could take over the #1 spot in search engine integrity by avoiding this kind of behavior.
Self-assembled viruses
Fastmail is an excellent service as has been suggested. Another you might consider is Rollernet.us.
Where does HN fit into the graph and for that matter where do these comments fit in? Are we all echos off the walls of God or are we just innocent bystanders getting soaked with cosmic tech-juice, blinding us to the truth?

Answer to these questions and more... at TechCrunch.Com
Real-Valued Recurrent Neural Networks more Powerful than Turing Machines
Tips On How To Find A Cheap PlayStation 3
The Sony PlayStation 3 has been available to American buyers since late 2006 and it has certainly extracted a lot of positive response from buyers who think nothing about waiting in line outside stores hoping to be lucky enough to find a PS3 in stock.
Well, if that's your business plan, it seems like its nothing more than an extension of domains... which provides no benefit to the customer. Why spend money on a "keyphrase" when you can spend money on the actual domain?

I don't see what possible reason a person would have to pay for a keyphrase? Most people use sites like tinyurl to send links to friends, why would I pay for a service like that? If I was a company, I would just buy a domain with that keyphrase (e.g. www.keyphrase.com) or do something like companyname.com/keyphrase

I think a better monetization plan would be to load the long url link in an iframe and put ads on the top of the page.
What's up with the percentages? Zero points gets 13%, 6% or 5% depending on the answer, while 122 points gets 1%, and 133 points gets 1%. I'm intrigued to know what the logic behind the percentages is, considering the solution is so simple (points/total*100) I'd love to know how the code was developed to get it so spectacularly wrong.

(It's probably the same code which gives you an "Unknown or expired link" message when you try and make a post after reading comments for more than five minutes... get those Reddit guys over here to sort this out!)
The New iPhone Is Already Here
You're not wrong there. Mine's a nurse! The way I see it, hopefully I can use my brains to bring in some cash while we're young, and she can care for me once I go senile in my 50s from stress.
a joke i know, but the standard is to use X where the letter is unknown or irrelevant
From a related article:

"... most recent survey carried out in the US showed 65 percent of dollar notes were contaminated with cocaine. "

http://www.rsc.org/aboutus/news/pressreleases/2007/cocaineba...
those issues have to do with testing, not the theory itself. it's not the theory's fault that humans are so... kaleidoscopic when they try to look at themselves

as expected, people here are overwhelmingly INTJ/INTP. you'll find that's the case in most scientific disciplines

it's not easy to see how the theory is good without having noticed how particularly similar people can be

these type combinations are not just 'any four categories', their effect on a type is greater than the sum of the parts. a bit more descriptive is the underlying Jungian functions. for example, INTJ is syntactic sugar for Ni-Te, introverted intution primary (the part that makes them so confident) and extraverted thinking secondary (the part that makes them logical). INTP is sugar for Ti-Ne, introverted thinking primary (the part that makes them absent-minded), and extroverted intuition secondary (the part that makes them look at the world for answers)

so by flipping the J to a P, the whole type is different. not all letter flips are that significant. I/E is the closest. for example, Feynman (ENTP) and Einstein (INTP) were Ne-Ti and Ti-Ne respectively. Feynman was driven by extroverted intuition, while it served Einstein. the nature of their discoveries is similarly 'playful' and creative

also, these four categories are not poorly-chosen. the most significant category is the S-N axis. it's basically this simple: if you meet someone who shares this same letter (you are both S or both N,) you will click. otherwise you won't

here's some forums where the type differences stand out

http://infp.globalchatter.com/messageboard/ -- fluffy

http://www.intpcentral.com/ -- levitous

http://intjforum.com/ -- dry

one thing to keep in mind is these aren't 16 "boxes." it's a bit complicated. for example, i suspect pg is INTP, but not standard-issue. he might be an Enneagram 3 INTP, for lack of a formal label. it's something he would share with Maddox ^_^
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I am interested to see how much we differ from the average
population. The average #s appear in parenthesis after the
choices, and were copied from
http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/stats.htm
The reason it's required for children to attend school in our society probably has more to do with the fact that it's pretty much a requirement if you want to exist in our society, while for a native it isn't necessary to survive - they can get along alright with their preexisting knowledge base, however limited.

Ex: A native running around protecting his territory in our society would most likely be shot by police.
Ask YC: Shared hosting providers that don't suck?
Looking for something under $10/month:

Can this get me shared hosting with decent latency and reasonable uptime?
Dreamhost seems popular and cheap, but people also like complaining about them.
In brevity, there is great power. I love python for this sort of programming.
pretty sure he's ENTP -- the prototypical entrepreneur

Gates is certainly ENTJ